When comparing Amber vs w2ui, the Slant community recommends w2ui for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript libraries for building a UI?” w2ui is ranked 11th while Amber is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose w2ui is:
Any component is well documented and have an easy API to access validation, dataloading and handling user events.
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Pros
Pro Includes an IDE
Amber includes an integrated development environment with a class browser, workspace, transcript, object inspector and debugger.
Pro Smalltalk is a simple, elegant, and powerful language
Pro One-to-one JS equivalent
Amber is written in itself, including the parser and compiler, and compiles into efficient JavaScript, mapping one-to-one with the JS equivalent.
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.
Cons
Con Very few learning resources
There are very little learning resources for Amber outside the official documentation. Which may not be enough for beginners, especially people that don't have much experience in programming.
