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Espresso.js vs Marionette: What are the differences?
Developers describe Espresso.js 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. On the other hand, Marionette is detailed as "Make your Backbone applications dance". Marionette brings an application architecture to Backbone, along with built in view management and memory management. Backbone.Marionette is a composite application library for Backbone.js that aims to simplify the construction of large scale JavaScript applications. It is a collection of common design and implementation patterns found in applications.
Espresso.js and Marionette can be categorized as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools.
Espresso.js and Marionette are both open source tools. It seems that Marionette with 7.15K GitHub stars and 1.35K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Espresso.js with 523 GitHub stars and 20 GitHub forks.
Pros of Espresso.js
Pros of Marionette
- MVC compliant20
- Uses Backbone20
- Views management13
- View management9
- JavaScript7
- Memory management6
- MVC Beginner-Friendly4
- Collections useful tools1