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  5. Mithril vs React Storybook

Mithril vs React Storybook

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Overview

Mithril
Mithril
Stacks89
Followers79
Votes86
React Storybook
React Storybook
Stacks635
Followers355
Votes0

Mithril vs React Storybook: What are the differences?

Mithril: Client-side MVC framework - a tool to organize code in a way that is easy to think about and to maintain. Mithril is around 12kb gzipped thanks to its small, focused, API. It provides a templating engine with a virtual DOM diff implementation for performant rendering, utilities for high-level modelling via functional composition, as well as support for routing and componentization; React Storybook: Develop and design React components without an app. You just load your UI components into the React Storybook and start developing them. This functionality allows you to develop UI components rapidly without worrying about the app. It will improve your team’s collaboration and feedback loop.

Mithril belongs to "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category of the tech stack, while React Storybook can be primarily classified under "MVC Tools".

Some of the features offered by Mithril are:

  • Only 12kb gzipped, no dependencies
  • Small API, small learning curve
  • Safe-by-default templates

On the other hand, React Storybook provides the following key features:

  • Isolated environment for your components (with the use of various iframe tactics).
  • Hot module reloading (even for functional stateless components).
  • Works with any app (whether it's Redux, Relay or Meteor).

Mithril and React Storybook are both open source tools. It seems that React Storybook with 39.4K GitHub stars and 3.23K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Mithril with 11.3K GitHub stars and 863 GitHub forks.

Huddle, Quizlet, and AppsFlyer are some of the popular companies that use React Storybook, whereas Mithril is used by Cloud Vlts, Inc., Dial Once, and SpartanGeek. React Storybook has a broader approval, being mentioned in 43 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Mithril, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Mithril
Mithril
React Storybook
React Storybook

Mithril is around 12kb gzipped thanks to its small, focused, API. It provides a templating engine with a virtual DOM diff implementation for performant rendering, utilities for high-level modelling via functional composition, as well as support for routing and componentization.

You just load your UI components into the React Storybook and start developing them. This functionality allows you to develop UI components rapidly without worrying about the app. It will improve your team’s collaboration and feedback loop.

Only 12kb gzipped, no dependencies;Small API, small learning curve;Safe-by-default templates;Hierarchical MVC via components;Virtual DOM diffing and compilable templates;Intelligent auto-redrawing system
Isolated environment for your components (with the use of various iframe tactics);Hot module reloading (even for functional stateless components);Works with any app (whether it's Redux, Relay or Meteor);Support for CSS (whether it's plain old CSS, CSS modules or something fancy);Clean and fast user interface;Runs inside your project (so, it uses your app's NPM modules and babel configurations out of the box);Serves static files (if you host static files inside your app);Deploy the whole storybook as a static app;Extendable as necessary (support for custom webpack loaders and plugins)
Statistics
Stacks
89
Stacks
635
Followers
79
Followers
355
Votes
86
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 16
    Lightweight
  • 12
    Faster than React
  • 10
    Pure JavaScript
  • 10
    Virtual Dom
  • 8
    Robust
Cons
  • 1
    Virtual Dom
Cons
  • 5
    Hard dependency to Babel loader
Integrations
TypeScript
TypeScript
JavaScript
JavaScript
React
React
React Native
React Native
Vue.js
Vue.js

What are some alternatives to Mithril, React Storybook?

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.

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.

Angular

Angular

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

Aurelia

Aurelia

Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.

Marionette

Marionette

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.

Ampersand.js

Ampersand.js

We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple and solves many common problems in developing clientside applications. But we missed the focused simplicity of tiny modules in node-land. We wanted something similar in style and philosophy, but that fully embraced tiny modules, npm, and browserify. Ampersand.js is a well-defined approach to combining (get it?) a series of intentionally tiny modules.

Durandal

Durandal

Durandal is a cross-device, cross-platform client framework written in JS and designed to make Single Page Applications (SPAs) easy to create and maintain.

PrimeNg

PrimeNg

It has a rich collection of components that would satisfy most of the UI requirements of your application like datatable, dropdown, multiselect, notification messages, accordion, breadcrumbs and other input components. So there would be no need of adding different libraries for different UI requirements.

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