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What are the best web component libraries/frameworks?
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Vue.js
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~30KB
https://github.com/vuejs/vue
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Svelte
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FAST
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~5-39k per features used
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Polymer 3
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React
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45K
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Vue.js
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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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Very basic TypeScript support
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Luiz Barni's Experience
Vue CLI 3 allows you to compile your projects as web components.
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GZipped size:
~30KB
Repository:
https://github.com/vuejs/vue
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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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Very enterpris-ey in design and tooling
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György Kövesdi's Experience
Small footprint (code size), easy to learn, good ecosystem and community
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Lightweight
Vue.js weighs in at 16kb min+gzip.
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Single file component
Very useful.
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Vuex store, events system
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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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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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CLI and Webpack integration
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Reactivity system
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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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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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Svelte
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Svelte
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Svelte
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Perfomance
Faster than most frameworks, as the end result is in standard JS, with similar performance.
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Doesn't have a big community
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Vikram Hegde's Experience
The developer experience is really great. Fast and clean compiler (not framework).
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No framework or library, it's just a compile-time transform
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Peculiar syntax
Svelte has some additional syntax that isn't HTML or JS.
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FAST
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FAST
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FAST
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Performance
FAST is super performant, with a small package and memory footprint.
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No IE 11 Support
FAST uses Web Components so won't work on IE 11.
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SuccessfulAnansi's Experience
FAST is a complete UI system for building high quality experiences using web components. The "Adaptive UI" feature makes it super easy for me to customize the interface to match my brand.
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GZipped size:
~5-39k per features used
Platforms:
All
License:
MIT
Price:
FREE
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Web Components
Use industry standard components in multiple frontend frameworks.
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Composable
FAST components are super composable making it easy to build other, more complex components.
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Get only what you need
FAST extensively uses tree shaking so you only get the features you need, reducing project bloat.
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Built on TypeScript
FAST is built using TypeScript.
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FAST-Element
FAST components are built on fast-element which can be used on its own to quickly build new Web Components.
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Custom tooling libraries
Create your own component portals or other tools using FAST tooling libraries.
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Adaptive UI
Easily customize the style/theme using flexible properties.
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Polymer 3
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Polymer 3
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Various basic components
It provides a base component.
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v1.0 GZipped size:
53K
v2.0 GZipped size (Chrome):
10K
v2.0 GZipped size (Edge):
36K
v2.0 GZipped size (Firefox):
32K
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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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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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Flex layout components
It provides Flex layout components.
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HTML markup is not string
HTML markup as it can be a non-string.
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CSS is easy to apply
CSS can be applied far more comfortably than React.
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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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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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React
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React
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React
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Keep control over your app's logic
React is just a view library, so you still have (almost) full control over how your app behaves.
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GZipped size:
45K
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Easy to write tests
Since React's virtual DOM system is implemented completely in JavaScript, it's very easy to write UI test cases.
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Good debugging tools
React has an official Chrome Extension which is used as a developing and debugging tool. It can be used to quickly and painlessly debug your application or view the whole application structure as it's rendered.
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Extensive SVG support
Since React v0.15, SVG is fully supported. React supports all SVG attributes that are recognized by today's browsers.
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Template engine independent
React provides a template engine (JSX) which is easy to use. But it's not mandatory.
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Can be used with different libraries
ReactJS can be used independently as the only library for building the front-end, or it can be used alongside JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, or even Angular.
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Virtual DOM support
Instead of relying on the DOM, React implements a virtual DOM from scratch, allowing it to calculate precisely what needs to be patched during the next screen refresh. This is orders of magnitude faster than fiddling with the DOM itself.
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Easy to reuse components
Since every single UI component is created independently in JavaScript, it becomes very easy to reuse them throughout your app without having to re-write them.
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Stencil.js
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Stencil.js
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Lots of really nice features
Unlike Svelte or Vue, Stencil allows you to use slots without shadow DOM. You can also configure the output be be individually components or one big file. The self-generating Readme files are a really nice touch.
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Use in a large scale production ecosystem to keep our UI design consistent across apps
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slim.js
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Avichay Eyal's Experience
Fast, extensible and developer friendly
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GZipped size:
5KB
Platforms:
All
License:
MIT
Price:
Free
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Lara
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Lara
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Lara
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Cons
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Pure C# approach that makes it easy to extend and feels natural to program with
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For C# projects only
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GZipped size:
72KB
Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
License:
Open Source Apache 2.0
Size:
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Open source
Apache 2.0 license.
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Cross-platform
Can develop in Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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Server-side rendering engine
Lara has a server-side rendering engine with virtual DOM.
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