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  5. Marionette vs Semantic UI

Marionette vs Semantic UI

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Overview

Semantic UI
Semantic UI
Stacks992
Followers1.5K
Votes673
GitHub Stars51.2K
Forks4.9K
Marionette
Marionette
Stacks169
Followers128
Votes80
GitHub Stars7.1K
Forks1.2K

Marionette vs Semantic UI: What are the differences?

What is Marionette? Make your Backbone applications dance. Marionette brings an application architecture to Backbone, along with built in view management and memory management. Backbone.Marionette is a composite application library for Backbone.js that aims to simplify the construction of large scale JavaScript applications. It is a collection of common design and implementation patterns found in applications.

What is Semantic UI? A UI Component library implemented using a set of specifications designed around natural language. Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

Marionette belongs to "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category of the tech stack, while Semantic UI can be primarily classified under "Front-End Frameworks".

"Uses Backbone" is the top reason why over 19 developers like Marionette, while over 134 developers mention "Easy to use and looks elegant" as the leading cause for choosing Semantic UI.

Marionette and Semantic UI are both open source tools. Semantic UI with 45.9K GitHub stars and 4.84K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Marionette with 7.15K GitHub stars and 1.35K GitHub forks.

Snapchat, Accenture, and Reviewable are some of the popular companies that use Semantic UI, whereas Marionette is used by 500px, Macy's, and Radweb. Semantic UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 77 company stacks & 55 developers stacks; compared to Marionette, which is listed in 35 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Semantic UI
Semantic UI
Marionette
Marionette

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

It is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the Model–view–presenter application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library.

Build Responsive Layouts Easier;Self Explanatory;Tag ambivalent;Powerful tools for expressing groups and collections;Portable and self-contained
Layouts; Utilities; Behaviors; Radio; Objects
Statistics
GitHub Stars
51.2K
GitHub Stars
7.1K
GitHub Forks
4.9K
GitHub Forks
1.2K
Stacks
992
Stacks
169
Followers
1.5K
Followers
128
Votes
673
Votes
80
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 157
    Easy to use and looks elegant
  • 92
    Variety of components
  • 64
    Themes
  • 61
    Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use
  • 57
    Semantic, duh
Cons
  • 5
    Outdated build tool (gulp 3))
  • 3
    Poor accessibility support
  • 3
    HTML is not semantic (see list component)
  • 2
    Javascript is tied to jquery
Pros
  • 20
    MVC compliant
  • 20
    Uses Backbone
  • 13
    Views management
  • 9
    View management
  • 7
    JavaScript
Integrations
AngularJS
AngularJS
React
React
Ember.js
Ember.js
Meteor
Meteor
Meteor
Meteor
JavaScript
JavaScript
Algolia
Algolia
Backbone.js
Backbone.js

What are some alternatives to Semantic UI, Marionette?

Bootstrap

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

AngularJS

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

Vue.js

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

Ember.js

Ember.js

A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.

Foundation

Foundation

Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices.

Backbone.js

Backbone.js

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

Materialize

Materialize

A CSS Framework based on material design.

Material Design for Angular

Material Design for Angular

Material Design is a specification for a unified system of visual, motion, and interaction design that adapts across different devices. Our goal is to deliver a lean, lightweight set of AngularJS-native UI elements that implement the material design system for use in Angular SPAs.

Angular

Angular

It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

Material-UI

Material-UI

Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.

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