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Aura vs io.js: What are the differences?
What is Aura? Modern tools for modern applications. The Aura project centers around a collection of high-quality, well-tested, semantically versioned, standards-compliant, independent library packages that can be used in any codebase.
What is io.js? A friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model. io.js is a JavaScript platform built on Chrome's V8 runtime. This project began as a fork of Joyent's Node.js and is compatible with the npm ecosystem.
Aura and io.js can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Aura is an open source tool with 2.99K GitHub stars and 269 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Aura's open source repository on GitHub.
Kivvik, Klubup, and RoundTable are some of the popular companies that use Aura, whereas io.js is used by Five, SkyparkCDN, and Stampery. Aura has a broader approval, being mentioned in 9 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to io.js, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Aura
- Open source1
Pros of io.js
- ES6 features7
- Compatible with NPM7
- JavaScript6
- v84