Essential React vs Zepto: What are the differences?

Essential React: A minimal skeleton for building testable React apps using ES6. A minimal skeleton for building testable React apps using ES6; Zepto: Minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers, with a jQuery-compatible API. While 100% jQuery coverage is not a design goal, the APIs provided match their jQuery counterparts. The goal is to have a ~5-10k modular library that downloads and executes fast, with a familiar and versatile API, so you can concentrate on getting stuff done.

Essential React and Zepto can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by Essential React are:

• Minimal tooling
• ES6 with support for IE 8
• Testability

On the other hand, Zepto provides the following key features:

• zepto - Core module
• contains most methods
• event - Event handling via on() & off()

Essential React and Zepto are both open source tools. It seems that Zepto with 14.5K GitHub stars and 4.06K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Essential React with 2.06K GitHub stars and 147 GitHub forks.