AngularJS vs Svelte

Overview

AngularJS

Stacks61.5K

Followers44.5K

Votes5.3K

GitHub Stars59.0K

Forks27.3K

Svelte

Stacks1.7K

Followers1.6K

Votes502

GitHub Stars84.6K

Forks4.7K

AngularJS vs Svelte: What are the differences?

AngularJS and Svelte are both popular JavaScript frameworks used for building web applications. Although they share some similarities, they also have key differences that set them apart. In this article, we will discuss six major differences between AngularJS and Svelte.

Performance: AngularJS is known for its robustness and extensive features, but it can be resource-intensive and slow down the performance of an application. On the other hand, Svelte takes a different approach by compiling the application at build time, resulting in faster and more efficient code execution.
Size and bundle: AngularJS is a comprehensive framework that includes a lot of built-in components and features, resulting in a larger codebase and bundle size. In contrast, Svelte is a lightweight framework that compiles the components into highly optimized JavaScript code, resulting in a smaller bundle size.
Reactivity: AngularJS uses two-way data binding, where any changes in the model are automatically reflected in the view and vice versa. Svelte, on the other hand, relies on a reactive programming paradigm, where variables can be declared as reactive and the UI updates automatically when their values change.
Learning Curve: AngularJS is a feature-rich framework that requires a steep learning curve for developers to master all its concepts and techniques. Svelte, on the other hand, has a simpler and more minimalistic approach, making it easier for developers to learn and understand.
Interactivity: AngularJS provides a highly interactive and dynamic user interface with its built-in features like animations, routing, and form validation. Svelte also offers similar capabilities, but they need to be implemented manually using third-party libraries or custom code.
Compatibility: AngularJS is an older framework and has a large codebase and community support, which makes it compatible with a wide range of browsers and devices. Svelte, being a relatively newer framework, may have some compatibility issues and may require additional polyfills or workaround for certain browsers.

In summary, AngularJS is a robust and feature-rich framework that offers extensive functionality but can be resource-intensive and have a steep learning curve. Svelte, on the other hand, is a lightweight and efficient framework with a simpler learning curve but may lack some built-in features and require additional workarounds for compatibility and interactivity.

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Advice on AngularJS, Svelte

Simon

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

Decidedon

Vuetify

Vue.js

Nuxt.js

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

@{Nuxt.js}|tool:7304| consisting of @{Vue CLI}|tool:9559|, @{Vue Router}|tool:6932|, @{vuex}|tool:6705|, @{Webpack}|tool:1682| and @{Sass}|tool:1171| (Bundler for @{HTML5}|tool:2538|, @{CSS 3}|tool:6727|), @{Babel}|tool:2739| (Transpiler for @{JavaScript}|tool:1209|),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed @{Vue.js}|tool:3837| components
@{Vuetify}|tool:6163| as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
@{TypeScript}|tool:1612| as programming language
@{Apollo}|tool:5508| / @{GraphQL}|tool:3820| (incl. @{GraphiQL}|tool:7879|) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
@{ESLint}|tool:3337|, @{TSLint}|tool:5561| and @{Prettier}|tool:7035| for coding style and code analyzes
@{Jest}|tool:830| as testing framework
@{Google Fonts}|tool:2652| and @{Font Awesome}|tool:3244| for typography and icon toolkit
@{NativeScript-Vue}|tool:9623| for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.

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Comments

John Clifford

Software Engineer at CircleYY

Jun 8, 2020

Decided

I used React not just because it is more popular than Angular. But the declarative and composition it gives out of the box is fascinating and React.js is just a very small UI library and you can build anything on top of it.

Composing components is the strongest asset of React for me as it can breakdown your application into smaller pieces which makes it easy to reuse and scale.

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José

Head of Engineering & Development at Chiper

Jun 23, 2020

Decided

It is a very versatile library that provides great development speed. Although, with a bad organization, maintaining projects can be a disaster. With a good architecture, this does not happen.

Angular is obviously powerful and robust. I do not rule it out for any future application, in fact with the arrival of micro frontends and cross-functional teams I think it could be useful. However, if I have to build a stack from scratch again, I'm left with react.

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Detailed Comparison

AngularJS	Svelte
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.	If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.
-	Write less code; No virtual DOM; Truly reactive
Statistics
GitHub Stars 59.0K	GitHub Stars 84.6K
GitHub Forks 27.3K	GitHub Forks 4.7K
Stacks 61.5K	Stacks 1.7K
Followers 44.5K	Followers 1.6K
Votes 5.3K	Votes 502
Pros & Cons
Pros 889 Quick to develop 589 Great mvc 573 Powerful 520 Restful 505 Backed by google Cons 12 Complex 4 Dependency injection 3 Event Listener Overload 2 Learning Curve 2 Hard to learn	Pros 59 Performance 41 Reactivity 36 Components 35 Simplicity 34 Javascript compiler (do that browsers don't have to) Cons 3 Event Listener Overload 2 Complex 2 Learning Curve 2 Hard to learn 2 Little to no libraries
Integrations
JavaScript	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to AngularJS, Svelte?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

Ember.js

A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.

Backbone.js

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

Angular

It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

Aurelia

Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.

Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.

Famo.us

Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.

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Overview

AngularJS

Stacks61.5K

Followers44.5K

Votes5.3K

GitHub Stars59.0K

Forks27.3K

Svelte

Stacks1.7K

Followers1.6K

Votes502

GitHub Stars84.6K

Forks4.7K

AngularJS vs Svelte: What are the differences?

Performance: AngularJS is known for its robustness and extensive features, but it can be resource-intensive and slow down the performance of an application. On the other hand, Svelte takes a different approach by compiling the application at build time, resulting in faster and more efficient code execution.
Size and bundle: AngularJS is a comprehensive framework that includes a lot of built-in components and features, resulting in a larger codebase and bundle size. In contrast, Svelte is a lightweight framework that compiles the components into highly optimized JavaScript code, resulting in a smaller bundle size.
Reactivity: AngularJS uses two-way data binding, where any changes in the model are automatically reflected in the view and vice versa. Svelte, on the other hand, relies on a reactive programming paradigm, where variables can be declared as reactive and the UI updates automatically when their values change.
Learning Curve: AngularJS is a feature-rich framework that requires a steep learning curve for developers to master all its concepts and techniques. Svelte, on the other hand, has a simpler and more minimalistic approach, making it easier for developers to learn and understand.
Interactivity: AngularJS provides a highly interactive and dynamic user interface with its built-in features like animations, routing, and form validation. Svelte also offers similar capabilities, but they need to be implemented manually using third-party libraries or custom code.
Compatibility: AngularJS is an older framework and has a large codebase and community support, which makes it compatible with a wide range of browsers and devices. Svelte, being a relatively newer framework, may have some compatibility issues and may require additional polyfills or workaround for certain browsers.

Advice on AngularJS, Svelte

Simon

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

Decidedon

Vuetify

Vue.js

Nuxt.js

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

@{Nuxt.js}|tool:7304| consisting of @{Vue CLI}|tool:9559|, @{Vue Router}|tool:6932|, @{vuex}|tool:6705|, @{Webpack}|tool:1682| and @{Sass}|tool:1171| (Bundler for @{HTML5}|tool:2538|, @{CSS 3}|tool:6727|), @{Babel}|tool:2739| (Transpiler for @{JavaScript}|tool:1209|),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed @{Vue.js}|tool:3837| components
@{Vuetify}|tool:6163| as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
@{TypeScript}|tool:1612| as programming language
@{Apollo}|tool:5508| / @{GraphQL}|tool:3820| (incl. @{GraphiQL}|tool:7879|) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
@{ESLint}|tool:3337|, @{TSLint}|tool:5561| and @{Prettier}|tool:7035| for coding style and code analyzes
@{Jest}|tool:830| as testing framework
@{Google Fonts}|tool:2652| and @{Font Awesome}|tool:3244| for typography and icon toolkit
@{NativeScript-Vue}|tool:9623| for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.

5.13M views5.13M

Comments

John Clifford

Software Engineer at CircleYY

Jun 8, 2020

Decided

Composing components is the strongest asset of React for me as it can breakdown your application into smaller pieces which makes it easy to reuse and scale.

455k views455k

Comments

José

Head of Engineering & Development at Chiper

Jun 23, 2020

Decided

It is a very versatile library that provides great development speed. Although, with a bad organization, maintaining projects can be a disaster. With a good architecture, this does not happen.

592k views592k

Comments

Detailed Comparison

AngularJS	Svelte
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.	If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.
-	Write less code; No virtual DOM; Truly reactive
Statistics
GitHub Stars 59.0K	GitHub Stars 84.6K
GitHub Forks 27.3K	GitHub Forks 4.7K
Stacks 61.5K	Stacks 1.7K
Followers 44.5K	Followers 1.6K
Votes 5.3K	Votes 502
Pros & Cons
Pros 889 Quick to develop 589 Great mvc 573 Powerful 520 Restful 505 Backed by google Cons 12 Complex 4 Dependency injection 3 Event Listener Overload 2 Learning Curve 2 Hard to learn	Pros 59 Performance 41 Reactivity 36 Components 35 Simplicity 34 Javascript compiler (do that browsers don't have to) Cons 3 Event Listener Overload 2 Complex 2 Learning Curve 2 Hard to learn 2 Little to no libraries
Integrations
JavaScript	No integrations available