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Inferno
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Modular
Use it however you want in a framework of your own custom design. When things change in the industry, swap things out instead of being locked in by someone else's design.
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Some React components may not work with Inferno
Inferno and React have different public and private APIs. If 3rd party components use a private API then it's almost certainly going to break when you use it with Inferno. Once React Fiber is implemented, even libraries that are currently working will break and will not be supported by Inferno.
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Pretty light-weight
Inferno weighs in at 9kb gzipped, which is light-weight.
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Not very popular
Which can hinder one's opinion of its future, but the future of all "frameworks" is to break things into smaller pieces, so inferno very well might get used by the big names in the future.
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Fast performance
Inferno is one of the fastest UI libraries around and widely considered the fastest.
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React compatability
Using the Inferno compatibility package ("inferno-compat"), Inferno can support the vast majority of React codebases.
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Webix
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A lot of widgets
Webix is one of the most extensive UI component libraries, second only to Sencha ExtJS. Not only considering the number of widgets, but also the API methods for manipulating these widgets.
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Commercial license
It's not free for commercial applications.
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Views can be constructed using JavaScript without HTML
The most common way of working with webix is to create a JSON configuration of your view in JavaScript. When you use TypeScript, you get complete typechecking and intellisense in your IDE.
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Not very popular
Not really a reason to not recommend it. But it has still a small user base. It deserves a lot more attention.
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Seems to be quite stable
Even the most complicated GUIs are bug-free most of the time.
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Not modular
The library is not modular (except for some additional more complex widgets). If you only need a few widgets, you still need to include the entire library.
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Webix Jet
The webix Jet library adds all the required features for SPA development (routing, template loading, ...)
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Extremely simple to implement.
To get started is extremely simple. It has a low learning curve.
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Mature project
Regular updates and releases.
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Great support from the webix team
The company behind webix is really quick in answering any questions you have on their forum or via email.
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Awesome responsive material skins
Great design and icons pack.
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Quasar Framework
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Uses Vue.js 2.0
Vue 3.x available as a plugin.
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Developed by a single person
Statistically, apps being developed by a single person can be gone without warning.
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Good documentation and coding samples
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Massive suite of well test & optimized widgets
Instant rebuild for SPA, PWA, Cordova or Electron with Material/iOS Themes.
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Designed from the outset for desktop & mobile
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Can build/test your PWA with/without PWA wrapper
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Supports server side rendering (SSR) like Nuxt + SSR/PWA
"Icon genie" builds app icons and splash images for platforms selected.
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Ability to add custom server side code when using SSR
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Web
License:
MIT
Mobile targets:
Android, Blueberry, iOS, Windows Phone, Web
Supported languages:
Javascript, Typescript
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Fit.UI - Object Oriented UI framework
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Completely free and open source
Most UI frameworks seems to be really limited or cost money. Fit.UI is actually quite comprehensive and licensed under LGPL which means you can use it for any kind of project - commercial, personal, or open source.
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Not as much third-party resources available
Since it's not as popular as other libraries there are not as many third-party resources like plugins or tutorials available.
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Full intellisense for JS and TypeScript in Visual Studio Code
You never have to look look up the names of functions - Visual Studio code just lists all the possible functions available on a given Fit.UI object.
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NPM package available
It can easily be installed through npm: npm install fit-ui.
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Enhances productivity
You can create a fairly complex app in little time from scratch using Fit.UI.
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Polymer
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Various basic components
It provides a base component.
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No server-side rendering
Polymer does not support server-side rendering. This results in higher loading times, more HTTP requests and it's not very SEO friendly, since search engines have no way of indexing a page if it's not rendered in the server.
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HTML markup is not string
HTML markup as it can be a non-string.
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Flex layout components
It provides Flex layout components.
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CSS is easy to apply
CSS can be applied far more comfortably than React.
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No need for special debugging tools
The presence od specialized debugging tools are advertised by competitors. The all features of web components are natively supported by browser embedded development tools.
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Excellent routing
The router is embedded into CLI for project creation and covers as web as Progressive web app, also fused with Polymer layouts out of the box. The shop template for CLI has a complete solution including the routing.
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Complete web app stack support
Full app stack from data tier to routing, progressive web app, responsive layouts makes no need to seek outside of Polymer ecosystem for application features. In addition to waste set of mature web components in Polymer Elements along with Vaadin Elements there are thousands of web components in the wild comparable to jQuery plugins set.
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Excellent documentation
Polymer guides you as with tools (cli, build environment, app templates,..) as with complimentary documentation on all phases of app development from creation of app as progresive web app to production deployment instructions. As Polymer is standards based, the whole community around those standards also helping in documentation and support.
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Based on web components
Web Components are a collection of specifications released by W3C as a way to reduce the complexity of web apps by creating reusable components. Browser support is currently poor for web components, however Polymer is developed to make web components compatible with modern browsers.
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API is easy to understand, based on standard
The Polymer APIs are split on application layers and follow standards on all possible ways: Web Components, CSS variables, async API via Promises and so on.
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v2.0 GZipped size (Chrome):
10K
v2.0 GZipped size (Safari):
13K
v1.0 GZipped size:
53K
v2.0 GZipped size (Firefox):
32K
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Dojo Toolkit
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Highly modular
Dojo Toolkit is a highly modular framework. It uses AMD modules and the module system is extremely powerful and easy to learn.
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Not able to keep up with the future of the web
The web is moving towards web components, something that Dojo does not implement. In its current state Dojo badly needs more abstraction and it also needs to provide some form of modern application architecture.
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Consistent and complete
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Integrated first-party loader makes interoperability extremely difficult
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Not only web apps
Dojo is not used only for web development. The widgets featured in Dojo can also be used to create mobile user interfaces.
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No startup-function
When the dojo-javascript is loaded, it will directly run the application. No chance to intercept with the options
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Vue.js
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Can be used with any front-end stack
Vue can easily be integrated with other front-end libraries. This makes it an extremely versatile tool and it's easy to fix its shortcomings or missing features by just plugging in another library.
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Poor typescript support
Very basic typescript support.
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Single file component
Very useful.
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Very enterpris-ey in design and tooling
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Lightweight
Vue.js weighs in at 16kb min+gzip.
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Vuex store, events system
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Reactivity system
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CLI and Webpack integration
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Responsive server-side rendering
Since most of the mainstream server-side rendering implementations are synchronous, they can block the server's event loop when the application is complex. Vue implements streaming server-side rendering, which allows you to render your component, get a readable stream and directly pipe that to the HTTP response. This allows you to have a responsive server and decreases the time your users have to wait before they get your rendered content.
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Supports inline templating
Although you can build components in JavaScript files, you can also use inline handlebars-like templating in your HTML views where simplicity is often a more sane choice.
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Can be made even lighter
Since the template-to-virtual-DOM and compiler can be separated, you can compile the templates in your machine and then deploying only the interpreter which is 12KB minified and gzipped.
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Support for both templates and JSX
You can choose to use either a templating language, or if you feel it's necessary to drop on a lower virtual-dom level, you can use JSX. This is simply done by replacing the template option with a render function. Or alternatively, you can embed functions inside templates by using the <render> tag.
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SEO friendly
Starting with Vue 2.0, Vue supports server-side rendering. This helps with SEO a lot, since the views are rendered directly on the server, which are indexed by search engines.
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VueRouter
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GZipped size:
~30KB
Repository:
https://github.com/vuejs/vue
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Bootstrap
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Large file size out of the box
Bootstrap has an out-of-the box filesize of ~276K, which is pretty large considering it's just CSS. Most of those styles aren't even used in 90% of web pages built with Bootstrap. By only including the required styles it can be trimmed by 70%-75%.
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Consistency across browsers
The grid layout with the predefined CSS elements and JavaScript components make it easier to have consistency across different browser versions and even different devices.
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Too many classes
Bootstrap's over-reliance on HTML classes for styling can get very messy very quickly. There's also an overabundance of DOM elements which have a lot of classes and are more often than not nested inside DOM elements with even more classes. This gets problematic down the line because the maintainability of the project gets harder when the project starts to get large.
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Responsive design philosophy
Bootstrap is developed to be instantly compatible with all sizes of screens, so you don't have to worry about which device the user is accessing your site from. Yet if you prefer, you can disable responsiveness of Bootstrap.
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Websites can start to look the same
If the initial Bootstrap colors and styles are not changed or edited, different websites start looking the same even if they have nothing to do with each other and they are made by different developers.
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Well documented
Documentation is thorough, well organized and full of live examples and templates ready for use. Every component and every part of the framework is explained and covered in depth.
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Hard to customise
It's quite hard to customise Bootstrap using pre-processors like SASS and LESS, the only real flexibility is with typography and colours.
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Custom builds
If you don't want to download the full Bootstrap framework. Custom builds of Bootstrap can be created, including only the desired CSS, CSS components, and JavaScript components. This can be done directly from the Bootstrap website by simply choosing what components to download.
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Large font sizes
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Designed to get a site running quickly
Bootstrap is designed to get a site up and running quickly. Each of it's components is pre-configured to help with getting a site up and running quickly.
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Great community
Bootstrap is very popular and has a large community. As a result of this it is much easier to find help with anything you might need. This also gives you a treasure trove of prebuilt components to use and add to your site.
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Supports responsive embeds
Allows easily adding responsiveness to <iframe>, <embed>, and <object> elements.
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Easily make professional looking websites
Bootstrap makes it easy to learn how to make professional looking websites. It can even make code junkies semi-enjoy design.
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Customizable
Bootstrap can be customized in a variety of ways. Either by overriding the default CSS styles with new CSS styles or by editing the .scss Bootstrap files.
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A wide variety of themes available
To help you avoid the "Bootstrap look", there are many resources that provide a great selection of themes and templates for Bootstrap.
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One of the most popular ones
Ranked on GitHub as the most starred CSS repository.
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Builders
Builders available, such as Pingendo and Layoutit.
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jQuery UI
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Cross-browser compatibility
jQuery UI, like jQuery has great cross-browser and backward compatibility with the most popular browsers on the market.
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Slow development
jQuery UI development is rather slow and new features or components are not released frequently.
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Globalization support
jQuery UI has internationalization (globalization) support.
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Materialize
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Refuses to use the flexbox model
Even though Materialize states that it only supports IE10+, which supports flexbox quite well, with prefixes, Materialize has refused to use Flexbox.
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Great-looking demo
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Not maintained anymore
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Device agnostic
Since Materialize follows Google's guidelines for Material design, which in theory is device agnostic, Materialize itself is device agnostic too. It's designed to look good on every device.
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Large / heavy
267 kilobytes, minified, for the CSS and JS.
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Large selection of components
CSS components: Badges, buttons, cards, collections, footer, forms, icons, navbar, pagination, preloader. JavaScript components: Collapsible, Dialogs, Dropdown, Media, Modals, Parallax, Pushpin, ScrollFire, Scrollspy, SideNav, Tabs, Transitions, Waves. Mobile-specific: slide-out drawer menu, toasts.
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Deprecated
No longer supported by their maintainers.
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Responsive
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Mobile navigation
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Nice showcase of sites built with Materialize
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Customizable
While the default style is not bad at all, Materialize also gives developers the ability to customize it and fit their own style, while still keeping in line with the Material Design philosophy. Along with the CSS files, designers can also download the SASS files which can be edited and compiled.
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12-Column Grid System
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Included icon font
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Meteor.js integration by developers
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Opinionated
Material design is very opinionated on how design elements should behave and look. The basics of which revolve around certain visual elements (physics, space, momentum and light) which are used to create specific UX elements. This is very helpful because it creates a consistent feel without making every design look the same. This can be seen in Materialize too, where each element may be customized but still it keeps the consistent look of the material design.
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