Webix vs Vue.js

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.

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.

Even the most complicated GUIs are bug-free most of the time.

The webix Jet library adds all the required features for SPA development (routing, template loading, ...)

To get started is extremely simple. It has a low learning curve.

Regular updates and releases.

The company behind webix is really quick in answering any questions you have on their forum or via email.

Great design and icons pack.

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.

Very useful.

Vue.js weighs in at 16kb min+gzip.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.