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Decisions about Inferno, Preact, and React
Yucen Zhang
We choose React for our client-side implementation because of React's virtual DOM implementation and component rendering optimization. It can help our app to be more stable and easier to debug. Also, react has strong support from the dev community. There is an enormous amount of reacting libraries we could use, which will speed up our development process.
Kirill Mikhailov
GO/C developer · | 4 upvotes · 4.8K views
As a backend dev, it was quite easy to go with vue over react. Important note that Im now talking about Vue2 maybe the are crucial changes in third version, but the second one is super easy to get into without spending too much time learning concepts. And vue-cli is just a breeze to start a project with.
Michael Roberts
CEO at asencis · | 9 upvotes · 18.2K views
What a debate to wade into - React vs. Vue.js. Prototyping of applications is much, much faster in Vue.js. React, I believe, has a much heavier developer learning experience - so hiring pure Javascript developers allows us to work in a much more framework agnostic way. However, React still has a place within our application stack - it's much more performant out of the box.
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- React-like api4
- Faster than React4
- Smaller bundles3
- Faster than Angular3
- Faster than Vue3
- Compatibility package for existing React apps2
Pros of Preact
- Lightweight12
- Drop-in replacement for React4
- Props/state passed to render3
- Performance3
- ES6 class components1
Pros of React
- Components737
- Virtual dom645
- Performance552
- Simplicity477
- Composable433
- Data flow171
- Declarative156
- Isn't an mvc framework121
- Reactive updates111
- Explicit app state109
- JSX28
- Learn once, write everywhere20
- Uni-directional data flow17
- Easy to Use16
- Works great with Flux Architecture14
- Great perfomance9
- Built by Facebook6
- Feels like the 90s4
- Speed4
- Scalable4
- Functional3
- Javascript3
- Easy to start3
- Server side views3
- TypeScript support2
- Great migration pathway for older systems2
- SSR2
- Fast evolving2
- Simple, easy to reason about and makes you productive2
- Fancy third party tools2
- Excellent Documentation2
- Scales super well2
- Just the View of MVC2
- Server Side Rendering2
- Awesome2
- Cross-platform2
- Hooks2
- Rich ecosystem2
- Split your UI into components with one true state1
- Props1
- Fragments1
- Sharable1
- Every decision architecture wise makes sense1
- Permissively-licensed1
- Super easy1
- Beautiful and Neat Component Management1
- Has functional components1
- Very gentle learning curve1
- Closer to standard JavaScript and HTML than others1
- Sdfsdfsdf1
- Strong Community1
- Has arrow functions1
- Allows creating single page applications1
- Simple1
- Start simple0
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Cons of React
- Requires discipline to keep architecture organized31
- No predefined way to structure your app19
- Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages18
- JSX6
- Not enterprise friendly6
- State consistency with backend neglected1
- One-way binding only1
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What is Inferno?
Inferno is an isomorphic library for building high-performance user interfaces, which is crucial when targeting mobile devices. Unlike typical virtual DOM libraries like React, Mithril, Virtual-dom, Snabbdom and Om, Inferno uses techniques to separate static and dynamic content. This allows Inferno to only "diff" renders that have dynamic values.
What is Preact?
Preact is an attempt to recreate the core value proposition of React (or similar libraries like Mithril) using as little code as possible, with first-class support for ES2015. Currently the library is around 3kb (minified & gzipped).
What is React?
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
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What are some alternatives to Inferno, Preact, and React?
Svelte
If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
jQuery UI
Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
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Introducing Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components
(reactjs.org)
Dec 21, 2020
React v17.0
(reactjs.org)
Oct 20, 2020
Introducing the New JSX Transform
(reactjs.org)
Sep 22, 2020
React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features
(reactjs.org)
Aug 10, 2020
React v16.13.0
(reactjs.org)
Feb 26, 2020