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Knockout vs Prototype: What are the differences?
Developers describe Knockout as "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. On the other hand, Prototype is detailed as "Prototype JavaScript framework". Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. It offers a familiar class-style OO framework, extensive Ajax support, higher-order programming constructs, and easy DOM manipulation.
Knockout and Prototype can be categorized as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Knockout and Prototype are both open source tools. Knockout with 9.84K GitHub stars and 1.55K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Prototype with 3.46K GitHub stars and 657 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Prototype has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2115 company stacks & 20 developers stacks; compared to Knockout, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 146 developer stacks.
Pros of Knockout
- Data centered application3
- Great for validations2
- Open source1