layerJS vs Nerv: What are the differences?

layerJS: UI composition & animation in pure HTML. UX patterns like menus, sliders, layers & lightboxes, parallax effects, page-swipes, zoom effects, etc. are really just interactive animated layers. layerJS is a simple open source library that provides one simple universal concept to create such patterns in pure HTML; Nerv: A fast React alternative, compatible with IE8 and React 16. Nerv is a virtual-dom based JavaScript (TypeScript) library with identical React 16 API, which offers much higher performance, tinyer package size and better browser compatibility.

layerJS and Nerv can be categorized as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by layerJS are:

• Universal - One library for all UX patterns. Slider, Popups, Accordeon, Menu, Parallax, (Touch) Gestures, etc.
• Pure HTML - Layout your interface with HTML attributes and define interaction with Links
• Plays with - Angular, VueJS, React, jQuery. Use your framework to modify frame content or generate frames dynamically.

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

• Identical React API
• High performance
• IE8 compatibility

layerJS is an open source tool with 1.73K GitHub stars and 75 GitHub forks. Here's a link to layerJS's open source repository on GitHub.