AngularJS vs Zepto

Overview

AngularJS

Stacks61.5K

Followers44.5K

Votes5.3K

GitHub Stars59.0K

Forks27.3K

Zepto

Stacks296

Followers71

Votes5

GitHub Stars15.3K

Forks3.9K

AngularJS vs Zepto: What are the differences?

# AngularJS vs. Zepto

AngularJS and Zepto are both popular JavaScript libraries, but they serve different purposes and have distinct functionalities. Below are the key differences between AngularJS and Zepto:

1. **Framework vs. Library**: AngularJS is a full-fledged MVC framework developed by Google, making it suitable for building complex web applications with features like two-way data binding and dependency injection. On the contrary, Zepto is a lightweight library inspired by jQuery, mainly focused on DOM manipulation and animation.

2. **Compatibility**: AngularJS is compatible with all modern web browsers, including IE8 and above, due to its comprehensive feature set. Conversely, Zepto is designed for modern browsers and mobile devices, lacking support for older browsers like IE8.

3. **Documentation**: AngularJS has extensive documentation provided by Google, offering detailed guides, tutorials, and a large community for support. In comparison, Zepto's documentation is minimalistic and less comprehensive, often requiring users to refer to jQuery documentation for additional insights.

4. **Performance**: AngularJS may suffer from performance issues in large-scale applications due to its two-way data binding feature, impacting the speed and responsiveness of the app. In contrast, Zepto's simplicity and lightweight nature contribute to better performance, especially on mobile devices.

5. **DOM Manipulation**: While both libraries can handle DOM manipulation, AngularJS uses an extended version of HTML (ng-attributes) for declarative programming, making the code more readable and maintainable. Zepto, on the other hand, relies on CSS selector syntax for DOM manipulation, providing a familiar approach for developers accustomed to jQuery.

6. **Community Adoption**: AngularJS has a large and active community of developers contributing to its ecosystem, with numerous plugins and extensions available for enhancing functionality. Zepto, being a niche library, has a smaller user base and limited community support, which could affect the availability of resources and updates.

In Summary, AngularJS is a comprehensive MVC framework suitable for complex web applications, while Zepto is a lightweight library focused on DOM manipulation and animation, with limited compatibility and community support.

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Advice on AngularJS, Zepto

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	Zepto
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.	While 100% jQuery coverage is not a design goal, the APIs provided match their jQuery counterparts. The goal is to have a ~5-10k modular library that downloads and executes fast, with a familiar and versatile API, so you can concentrate on getting stuff done.
-	zepto - Core module; contains most methods;event - Event handling via on() & off();ajax - XMLHttpRequest and JSONP functionality;form - Serialize & submit web forms;ie - Add support for Internet Explorer 10+ on desktop and Windows Phone 8.;detect - Provides $.os and $.browser information;fx - The animate() method;fx_methods - Animated show, hide, toggle, and fade*() methods.;assets - Experimental support for cleaning up iOS memory after removing image elements from the DOM.;data - A full-blown data() method, capable of storing arbitrary objects in memory.;deferred - Provides $.Deferred promises API. Depends on the "callbacks" module. ;When included, $.ajax() supports a promise interface for chaining callbacks.;callbacks - Provides $.Callbacks for use in "deferred" module.;selector - Experimental jQuery CSS extensions support for functionality such as $('div:first') and el.is(':visible').;touch - Fires tap and swipe–related events on touch devices. This works with both `touch` (iOS, Android) and `pointer` events (Windows Phone).;gesture - Fires pinch gesture events on touch devices;stack - Provides andSelf & end() chaining methods;ios3 - String.prototype.trim and Array.prototype.reduce methods (if they are missing) for compatibility with iOS 3.x.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 59.0K	GitHub Stars 15.3K
GitHub Forks 27.3K	GitHub Forks 3.9K
Stacks 61.5K	Stacks 296
Followers 44.5K	Followers 71
Votes 5.3K	Votes 5
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 5 Lightweight
Integrations
JavaScript	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to AngularJS, Zepto?

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.

Svelte

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.

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.

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Overview

AngularJS

Stacks61.5K

Followers44.5K

Votes5.3K

GitHub Stars59.0K

Forks27.3K

Zepto

Stacks296

Followers71

Votes5

GitHub Stars15.3K

Forks3.9K

AngularJS vs Zepto: What are the differences?

# AngularJS vs. Zepto

AngularJS and Zepto are both popular JavaScript libraries, but they serve different purposes and have distinct functionalities. Below are the key differences between AngularJS and Zepto:

1. **Framework vs. Library**: AngularJS is a full-fledged MVC framework developed by Google, making it suitable for building complex web applications with features like two-way data binding and dependency injection. On the contrary, Zepto is a lightweight library inspired by jQuery, mainly focused on DOM manipulation and animation.

2. **Compatibility**: AngularJS is compatible with all modern web browsers, including IE8 and above, due to its comprehensive feature set. Conversely, Zepto is designed for modern browsers and mobile devices, lacking support for older browsers like IE8.

3. **Documentation**: AngularJS has extensive documentation provided by Google, offering detailed guides, tutorials, and a large community for support. In comparison, Zepto's documentation is minimalistic and less comprehensive, often requiring users to refer to jQuery documentation for additional insights.

4. **Performance**: AngularJS may suffer from performance issues in large-scale applications due to its two-way data binding feature, impacting the speed and responsiveness of the app. In contrast, Zepto's simplicity and lightweight nature contribute to better performance, especially on mobile devices.

5. **DOM Manipulation**: While both libraries can handle DOM manipulation, AngularJS uses an extended version of HTML (ng-attributes) for declarative programming, making the code more readable and maintainable. Zepto, on the other hand, relies on CSS selector syntax for DOM manipulation, providing a familiar approach for developers accustomed to jQuery.

6. **Community Adoption**: AngularJS has a large and active community of developers contributing to its ecosystem, with numerous plugins and extensions available for enhancing functionality. Zepto, being a niche library, has a smaller user base and limited community support, which could affect the availability of resources and updates.

In Summary, AngularJS is a comprehensive MVC framework suitable for complex web applications, while Zepto is a lightweight library focused on DOM manipulation and animation, with limited compatibility and community support.

Advice on AngularJS, Zepto

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	Zepto
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.	While 100% jQuery coverage is not a design goal, the APIs provided match their jQuery counterparts. The goal is to have a ~5-10k modular library that downloads and executes fast, with a familiar and versatile API, so you can concentrate on getting stuff done.
-	zepto - Core module; contains most methods;event - Event handling via on() & off();ajax - XMLHttpRequest and JSONP functionality;form - Serialize & submit web forms;ie - Add support for Internet Explorer 10+ on desktop and Windows Phone 8.;detect - Provides $.os and $.browser information;fx - The animate() method;fx_methods - Animated show, hide, toggle, and fade*() methods.;assets - Experimental support for cleaning up iOS memory after removing image elements from the DOM.;data - A full-blown data() method, capable of storing arbitrary objects in memory.;deferred - Provides $.Deferred promises API. Depends on the "callbacks" module. ;When included, $.ajax() supports a promise interface for chaining callbacks.;callbacks - Provides $.Callbacks for use in "deferred" module.;selector - Experimental jQuery CSS extensions support for functionality such as $('div:first') and el.is(':visible').;touch - Fires tap and swipe–related events on touch devices. This works with both `touch` (iOS, Android) and `pointer` events (Windows Phone).;gesture - Fires pinch gesture events on touch devices;stack - Provides andSelf & end() chaining methods;ios3 - String.prototype.trim and Array.prototype.reduce methods (if they are missing) for compatibility with iOS 3.x.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 59.0K	GitHub Stars 15.3K
GitHub Forks 27.3K	GitHub Forks 3.9K
Stacks 61.5K	Stacks 296
Followers 44.5K	Followers 71
Votes 5.3K	Votes 5
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 5 Lightweight
Integrations
JavaScript	No integrations available