Closure Library vs jQuery vs React

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Closure Library

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jQuery

189.9K
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React

167.9K
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+ 1
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Pros of Closure Library
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    • 1.3K
      Cross-browser
    • 957
      Dom manipulation
    • 809
      Power
    • 660
      Open source
    • 610
      Plugins
    • 459
      Easy
    • 395
      Popular
    • 350
      Feature-rich
    • 281
      Html5
    • 227
      Light weight
    • 93
      Simple
    • 84
      Great community
    • 79
      CSS3 Compliant
    • 69
      Mobile friendly
    • 67
      Fast
    • 43
      Intuitive
    • 42
      Swiss Army knife for webdev
    • 35
      Huge Community
    • 11
      Easy to learn
    • 4
      Clean code
    • 3
      Because of Ajax request :)
    • 2
      Powerful
    • 2
      Nice
    • 2
      Just awesome
    • 2
      Used everywhere
    • 1
      Improves productivity
    • 1
      Javascript
    • 1
      Easy Setup
    • 1
      Open Source, Simple, Easy Setup
    • 1
      It Just Works
    • 1
      Industry acceptance
    • 1
      Allows great manipulation of HTML and CSS
    • 1
      Widely Used
    • 1
      I love jQuery
    • 830
      Components
    • 672
      Virtual dom
    • 578
      Performance
    • 507
      Simplicity
    • 442
      Composable
    • 186
      Data flow
    • 166
      Declarative
    • 128
      Isn't an mvc framework
    • 120
      Reactive updates
    • 115
      Explicit app state
    • 50
      JSX
    • 29
      Learn once, write everywhere
    • 22
      Easy to Use
    • 21
      Uni-directional data flow
    • 17
      Works great with Flux Architecture
    • 11
      Great perfomance
    • 10
      Javascript
    • 9
      Built by Facebook
    • 8
      TypeScript support
    • 6
      Speed
    • 6
      Server Side Rendering
    • 5
      Feels like the 90s
    • 5
      Excellent Documentation
    • 5
      Props
    • 5
      Functional
    • 5
      Easy as Lego
    • 5
      Closer to standard JavaScript and HTML than others
    • 5
      Cross-platform
    • 5
      Easy to start
    • 5
      Hooks
    • 5
      Awesome
    • 5
      Scalable
    • 4
      Super easy
    • 4
      Allows creating single page applications
    • 4
      Server side views
    • 4
      Sdfsdfsdf
    • 4
      Start simple
    • 4
      Strong Community
    • 4
      Fancy third party tools
    • 4
      Scales super well
    • 3
      Has arrow functions
    • 3
      Beautiful and Neat Component Management
    • 3
      Just the View of MVC
    • 3
      Simple, easy to reason about and makes you productive
    • 3
      Fast evolving
    • 3
      SSR
    • 3
      Great migration pathway for older systems
    • 3
      Rich ecosystem
    • 3
      Simple
    • 3
      Has functional components
    • 3
      Every decision architecture wise makes sense
    • 3
      Very gentle learning curve
    • 2
      Split your UI into components with one true state
    • 2
      Recharts
    • 2
      Permissively-licensed
    • 2
      Fragments
    • 2
      Sharable
    • 2
      Image upload
    • 2
      HTML-like
    • 1
      React hooks
    • 1
      Datatables

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    Cons of Closure Library
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      • 6
        Large size
      • 5
        Sometimes inconsistent API
      • 5
        Encourages DOM as primary data source
      • 2
        Live events is overly complex feature
      • 40
        Requires discipline to keep architecture organized
      • 29
        No predefined way to structure your app
      • 28
        Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages
      • 13
        JSX
      • 10
        Not enterprise friendly
      • 6
        One-way binding only
      • 3
        State consistency with backend neglected
      • 3
        Bad Documentation
      • 2
        Error boundary is needed
      • 2
        Paradigms change too fast

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      What is Closure Library?

      Closure Library is a powerful, low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. It is used by many Google web applications, such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Docs, Google+, Google Maps, and others.

      What is jQuery?

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

      What is 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.

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