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Pro Helpful and friendly community
Thanks to the increasing popularity of Babylon, it has a growing community of helpful developers. It's easy to find help on their forum.
Pro Support for native exporters for 3dsMax, Blender3d and Unity3D
Babylon.js files can be produced directly from well-known designer tools.
Con Weak visual tools
Babylon.js has its own editor but it has been weakly developed and does not support a lot of features of engine.
Con Young project
Babylon is quite young compared to many of it's competitors (released in 2013). The community is still somewhat small, however growing quickly.
Pro Beginner-friendly
Phaser keeps things simple and as such is easy to use by beginners.
Con Poor code structure
There's little in terms of cohesiveness in classes, methods or patterns.
Pro Excellent collision detection system
Impact provides 2 types of collision detection; static and dynamic collisions. Both of which are easily integrated into game development.
Pro Extendable
Many plugins are available, including one called Impact++ which adds features like pathfinding and dynamic lighting.
Con Cost of $99
While most HTML5 frameworks are offered as free open source projects, ImpactJS has a one time cost and no free option.
Pro Strong community support
Forum is always active with knowledgeable developers and with lot of inside info, and post mortems.
Pro Free and open source
Starling is available for free with code available on GitHub.
Con Early in development
No stable release of JavaScript version of Starling has yet been released.
Pro Tiled support
Natively integrates Tiled map editor. Tiled is a free, open-source map editor that supports orthogonal, isometric and staggered maps.
Con Abandoned
Last update to the plugin was made in 2013.
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