React vs Stimulus vs Vue.js

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React

Stacks182.6K

Followers147.0K

Votes4.1K

GitHub Stars240.3K

Forks49.7K

Vue.js

Stacks55.5K

Followers44.7K

Votes1.6K

GitHub Stars209.7K

Forks33.8K

Stimulus

Stacks132

Followers106

Votes16

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Advice on React, Vue.js, Stimulus

John Clifford

Software Engineer at CircleYY

Jun 8, 2020

Decided

I used React not just because it is more popular than Angular. But the declarative and composition it gives out of the box is fascinating and React.js is just a very small UI library and you can build anything on top of it.

Composing components is the strongest asset of React for me as it can breakdown your application into smaller pieces which makes it easy to reuse and scale.

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Máté

Senior developer at Self-employed

May 28, 2020

Decided

Svelte is everything a developer could ever want for flexible, scalable frontend development. I feel like React has reached a maturity level where there needs to be new syntactic sugar added (I'm looking at you, hooks!). I love how Svelte sets out to rebuild a new language to write interfaces in from the ground up.

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Malek

Web developer at Quicktext

Mar 28, 2020

Decided

The project is a web gadget previously made using vanilla script and JQuery, It is a part of the "Quicktext" platform and offers an in-app live & customizable messaging widget. We made that remake with React eco-system and Typescript and we're so far happy with results. We gained tons of TS features, React scaling & re-usabilities capabilities and much more!

What do you think?

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Detailed Comparison

React	Vue.js	Stimulus
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.	It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.	Stimulus is a JavaScript framework with modest ambitions. It doesn't seek to take over your entire front-end—in fact, it's not concerned with rendering HTML at all.
Declarative; Component-based; Learn once, write anywhere	Reactivity; Components; Modularity; Animations; Routing; Stability; Extendable Data bindings; Plain JS object models; Build UI by composing components; Mix & matching small libraries	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 240.3K	GitHub Stars 209.7K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 49.7K	GitHub Forks 33.8K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 182.6K	Stacks 55.5K	Stacks 132
Followers 147.0K	Followers 44.7K	Followers 106
Votes 4.1K	Votes 1.6K	Votes 16
Pros & Cons
Pros 837 Components 674 Virtual dom 579 Performance 509 Simplicity 442 Composable Cons 41 Requires discipline to keep architecture organized 30 No predefined way to structure your app 29 Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages 13 JSX 10 Not enterprise friendly	Pros 294 Simple and easy to start with 230 Good documentation 196 Components 131 Simple the best 100 Simplified AngularJS Cons 9 Less Common Place 5 YXMLvsHTML Markup 3 Only support programatically multiple root nodes 3 Don't support fragments	Pros 5 Simple and easy to start with 5 No Javascript on Backend 4 Balance between Front End and BackEnd 2 Easy way to add functionality to rails views Cons 2 Steep learning curve
Integrations
No integrations available	No integrations available	JavaScript

What are some alternatives to React, Vue.js, Stimulus?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

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.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

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 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.

Svelte

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.

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

Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.

Famo.us

Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.