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Durandal vs Espresso.js: What are the differences?
What is Durandal? Single Page Apps Done Right. Durandal is a cross-device, cross-platform client framework written in JS and designed to make Single Page Applications (SPAs) easy to create and maintain.
What is Espresso.js? 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.
Durandal and Espresso.js belong to "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Durandal are:
- Clean MV* Architecture
- JS & HTML Modularity
- Simple App Lifecycle
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
Durandal and Espresso.js are both open source tools. It seems that Durandal with 1.78K GitHub stars and 391 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Espresso.js with 523 GitHub stars and 20 GitHub forks.
Pros of Durandal
- UI components3
- Easy to learn3
- Javascript2
- Free2
- Works IE8 >2
- Customizable2
- Quick to develop2
- Easy to start2
- Open source2