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lodash vs Showdown: What are the differences?
What is lodash? A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras. A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.
What is Showdown? JavaScript port of Markdown. Showdown lets you add in-browser preview to existing Markdown apps. Any app that accepts HTML input can now be made to speak Markdown by modifying the input pages's HTML.
lodash and Showdown belong to "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" category of the tech stack.
lodash and Showdown are both open source tools. It seems that lodash with 40K GitHub stars and 4.16K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Showdown with 9.21K GitHub stars and 1.27K GitHub forks.
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) provides standard data objects in JSON format for the healthcare industry. Since JSON objects are hierarchical and tree-like, we had a need to defensively 'pluck' fields from our JSON objects and do lots of mapping. We tried jQuery and Underscore and a few other technologies like FHIRPath; but Lodash has been the most well supported, works in the most contexts, has the cleanest syntax, etc. We particularly like the ES6 version of Lodash, where we can import the method names directly, without resorting to * or _ syntax. We got hooked on the 'get' function to defensively pluck fields from objects without crashing our user interface, and have found countless uses for the other lodash functions throughout our apps.
Lodash is great for developing and optimizing algorithms.
Pros of Lodash
- Better than Underscore2
- Simple1
- Better that Underscore0
Pros of Showdown
- Easy setup0
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Cons of Lodash
- It reduce the performance1
