Rome vs Underscore

Overview

Underscore

Stacks1.9K

Followers589

Votes290

GitHub Stars27.4K

Forks5.5K

Rome

Stacks26

Followers12

Votes0

GitHub Stars23.6K

Forks650

Underscore vs Rome : What are the differences?

What is Underscore? JavaScript's utility _ belt. A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.

What is Rome ? All in one JS toolchain (By Facebook). It is an experimental JavaScript toolchain. It includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, testing framework and more. It aims to be a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code.

Underscore and Rome can be categorized as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.

Underscore and Rome are both open source tools. It seems that Underscore with 25.3K GitHub stars and 5.51K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Rome with 7.96K GitHub stars and 254 GitHub forks.

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Advice on Underscore, Rome

Abigail

Dec 6, 2019

Decided

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.

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Detailed Comparison

Underscore	Rome
A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.	It is an experimental JavaScript toolchain. It includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, testing framework and more. It aims to be a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code.
-	Open Source; Compiler; Linter; Formatter; Bundler; Testing framework
Statistics
GitHub Stars 27.4K	GitHub Stars 23.6K
GitHub Forks 5.5K	GitHub Forks 650
Stacks 1.9K	Stacks 26
Followers 589	Followers 12
Votes 290	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 85 Utility 55 Simple 40 Functional programming 32 Fast 28 Open source	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	JavaScript

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