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Inferno vs React Engine: What are the differences?
What is Inferno? A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs. 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 React Engine? A react render engine for Universal (previously Isomorphic) JavaScript apps written with express, by PayPal. a composite render engine for universal (isomorphic) express apps to render both plain react views and react-router views.
Inferno and React Engine can be categorized as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Inferno and React Engine are both open source tools. Inferno with 13.8K GitHub stars and 636 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Engine with 1.46K GitHub stars and 145 GitHub forks.
Pros of Inferno
- React-like api4
- Faster than React4
- Compatibility package for existing React apps3
- Smaller bundles3
- Faster than Angular3
- Faster than Vue3