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Ampersand.js vs jsf: What are the differences?
Ampersand.js: A highly modular, loosely coupled, non-frameworky framework for building advanced JavaScript apps. We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple and solves many common problems in developing clientside applications. But we missed the focused simplicity of tiny modules in node-land. We wanted something similar in style and philosophy, but that fully embraced tiny modules, npm, and browserify. Ampersand.js is a well-defined approach to combining (get it?) a series of intentionally tiny modules; jsf: It is use for building component-based web interfaces. It is used for building component-based user interfaces for web applications and was formalized as a standard through the Java Community.
Ampersand.js and jsf can be primarily classified as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools.
Ampersand.js is an open source tool with 816 GitHub stars and 51 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ampersand.js's open source repository on GitHub.
GameDuell, Universidade CEUMA, and Maps S.A. are some of the popular companies that use jsf, whereas Ampersand.js is used by liandri.it, Shore GmbH, and Infiniscene. jsf has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to Ampersand.js, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of Ampersand.js
- Open source5
- Micromodules4
- CommonJS3
- npm3
- Loosely Coupled3
- non-frameworky2
- Integrates well with anything2
- Great Community2
- Powerful2
- Free2
- Simple2
- JavaScript1
Pros of JSF
- Rich and comprehensive Request Life-cycle2
- Very Mature UI framework1
- Server Side component1