When comparing Vue.js vs FAST, the Slant community recommends Vue.js for most people. In the question“What are the best web component libraries/frameworks?” Vue.js is ranked 1st while FAST is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Vue.js is:
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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Pros
Pro 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.
Pro Single file component
Very useful.
Pro Lightweight
Vue.js weighs in at 16kb min+gzip.
Pro Vuex store, events system
Pro Reactivity system
Pro CLI and Webpack integration
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro VueRouter
Pro Performance
FAST is super performant, with a small package and memory footprint.
Pro Web Components
Use industry standard components in multiple frontend frameworks.
Pro Composable
FAST components are super composable making it easy to build other, more complex components.
Pro Get only what you need
FAST extensively uses tree shaking so you only get the features you need, reducing project bloat.
Pro Built on TypeScript
FAST is built using TypeScript.
Pro FAST-Element
FAST components are built on fast-element which can be used on its own to quickly build new Web Components.
Pro Custom tooling libraries
Create your own component portals or other tools using FAST tooling libraries.
Pro Adaptive UI
Easily customize the style/theme using flexible properties.
Cons
Con Poor typescript support
Very basic typescript support.
Con Very enterpris-ey in design and tooling
Con No IE 11 Support
FAST uses Web Components so won't work on IE 11.