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Knockout vs Moon: What are the differences?
Knockout: Create rich, responsive UIs with JavaScript. It is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), it can help you implement it more simply and maintainably; Moon: Fast 7k Vue alternative. Moon is a minimal, blazing fast library for building user interfaces. It combines the positive aspects of popular libraries into one small package. It's super lightweight, and includes advanced optimizations to ensure fast render times.
Knockout and Moon can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Knockout are:
- Easily associate DOM elements with model data using a concise, readable syntax
- When your data model's state changes, your UI updates automatically
- Implicitly set up chains of relationships between model data, to transform and combine it
On the other hand, Moon provides the following key features:
- 🎉 Small file size (7kb minified + gzip)
- ⚡️ Blazing fast performance
- 🚀 Intuitive, easy-to-learn API
Knockout and Moon are both open source tools. Knockout with 9.84K GitHub stars and 1.55K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Moon with 5.54K GitHub stars and 217 GitHub forks.
Pros of Knockout
- Data centered application3
- Great for validations2
- Open source1















