React.js Boilerplate vs jQWidgets: What are the differences?

What is React.js Boilerplate? 🔥 Quick setup for performance orientated, offline-first React.js apps. Quick setup for new performance orientated, offline–first React.js applications featuring Redux, hot–reloading, PostCSS, react-router, ServiceWorker, AppCache, FontFaceObserver and Mocha.

What is jQWidgets? A javascript library framework for building modern responsive web sites and mobile web applications that work on any device. It is a software framework with widgets, themes, input validation, drag & drop plug-in, data adapters, built-in WAI-ARIA accessibility, internationalization and MVVM support. It is built on the open standards and technologies HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.

React.js Boilerplate and jQWidgets can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by React.js Boilerplate are:

• Using react-transform-hmr, your changes in the CSS and JS get reflected in the app instantly without refreshing the page. That means that the current application state persists even when you change something in the underlying code! For a very good explanation and demo, watch Dan Abramov himself talking about it at react-europe.
• Redux is a much better implementation of a flux–like, unidirectional data flow. Redux makes actions composable, reduces the boilerplate code and makes hot–reloading possible in the first place. For a good overview of redux, check out the talk linked above or the official documentation!
• Babel is a modular JavaScript transpiler that helps to use next generation JavaScript and more, like transformation for JSX, hot loading, error catching etc. Babel has a solid ecosystem of offical preset and plugins.

On the other hand, jQWidgets provides the following key features:

• Works Across Devices & Browsers
• Web Standards Compliant
• Optimized for Performance

React.js Boilerplate is an open source tool with 23.3K GitHub stars and 4.72K GitHub forks. Here's a link to React.js Boilerplate's open source repository on GitHub.