Escher vs PurpleJS: What are the differences?

Developers describe Escher as "An Elm-like web framework for Julia". A web server for 2016. Escher's built-in web server allows you to create interactive UIs with very little code. It takes care of messaging between Julia and the browser under-the-hood. It can also hot-load code: you can see your UI evolve as you save your changes to it. On the other hand, PurpleJS is detailed as "An alternative to Node.js for Java projects". PurpleJS is a simple and capable framework for creating performant web applications without leaving Javascript. It is created in Java to give the flexibility and performance Java provides. It's optional to use Java but it's required if you need to embed PurpleJS in existing applications.

Escher and PurpleJS can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Escher and PurpleJS are both open source tools. PurpleJS with 408 GitHub stars and 19 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Escher with 312 GitHub stars and 63 GitHub forks.