When comparing w2ui vs Rivets, the Slant community recommends Rivets for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript libraries for building a UI?” Rivets is ranked 6th while w2ui is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Rivets is:
Rivets takes DOM element as input, which has special attributes prefixed with 'rv-'. So you may declare DOM element in whatever language you like, even in HTML.
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Pros
Pro Easy and clean API
Any component is well documented and have an easy API to access validation, dataloading and handling user events.
Pro Lots of components/widgets
Library contains UI components like Datagrids, Forms, Tabs, SideBars, Toolbars and more.
Pro Small library size
Only two files need to be included 1 .css and 1 .js, together they are only 365 kb.
regarding to amount of components it is very small.
Pro Doesn't require special DOM declaration syntax like JSX
Rivets takes DOM element as input, which has special attributes prefixed with 'rv-'. So you may declare DOM element in whatever language you like, even in HTML.
Cons
Con Seems to be abandoned
No new commits have been pushed since March 2015.