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Aurelia vs Espresso.js: What are the differences?
Developers describe Aurelia as "Next gen JS framework written with ES6 and ES7. Integrates with Web Components. No external dependencies except polyfills". Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity. On the other hand, Espresso.js is detailed as "React Meets Backbone for a Minimal MVC". Espresso.js is a tiny MVC framework inspired by Backbone and React with a focus on simplicity and speed. We've aimed to bring the ideas of unidirectional data flow of Flux to a simple, Backbone-style library.
Aurelia and Espresso.js can be categorized as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools.
Some of the features offered by Aurelia are:
- Two-Way Databinding
- Routing & UI Composition
- Extensible HTML
On the other hand, Espresso.js provides the following key features:
- tiny, less than 500 lines and 3kb gzipped
- zero dependencies
- performance and memory focused
Aurelia and Espresso.js are both open source tools. Aurelia with 11.1K GitHub stars and 665 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Espresso.js with 523 GitHub stars and 20 GitHub forks.
Pros of Aurelia
- Simple with conventions47
- Modern architecture42
- Makes sense and is mostly javascript not framework39
- Extensible31
- Integrates well with other components28
- Easy to use27
- Dependency Injection25
- Modular22
- Great router20
- Adaptive Data Binding16
- Typescript, ES2015, ES201613
- IoC, Modularity, Simplicity, Full Stack11
- Good binding system9
- Based on ES79
- Testable6
- Convention based6
- Quick to develop5
- Solid Documentation4
- Evolving standards compliance4
- Smooth learning curve4
- Outstanding Support (paid)4
- Reactive binding system1
- TypeScript1