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Add to SafariWhen comparing Dojo Toolkit vs Webix, the Slant community recommends Dojo Toolkit for most people. In the question“What are the best open source JavaScript GUI/widget frameworks? ” Dojo Toolkit is ranked 3rd while Webix is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Dojo Toolkit is:
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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Pros
Pro Highly modular
Dojo Toolkit is a highly modular framework. It uses AMD modules and the module system is extremely powerful and easy to learn.
Pro Consistent and complete
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro Seems to be quite stable
Even the most complicated GUIs are bug-free most of the time.
Pro Webix Jet
The webix Jet library adds all the required features for SPA development (routing, template loading, ...)
Pro Extremely simple to implement.
To get started is extremely simple. It has a low learning curve.
Pro Mature project
Regular updates and releases.
Pro 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.
Pro Awesome responsive material skins
Great design and icons pack.
Cons
Con 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.
Con Integrated first-party loader makes interoperability extremely difficult
Con No startup-function
When the dojo-javascript is loaded, it will directly run the application. No chance to intercept with the options
Con Commercial license
It's not free for commercial applications.
Con 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.
Con 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.
