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React.js Boilerplate vs Fielder: What are the differences?
What is React.js Boilerplate? 🔥 Quick setup for performance orientated, offline-first React.js apps. Quick setup for new performance orientated, offline–first React.js applications featuring Redux, hot–reloading, PostCSS, react-router, ServiceWorker, AppCache, FontFaceObserver and Mocha.
What is Fielder? A field-first form library for React and React Native. Fielder has been built from the ground up with a field-first approach to validation What does this mean?
- Validation can easily be added and removed to a form
- Only validate what the user can see (see cross form validation below)
- No need for a large set of upfront domain knowledge.
React.js Boilerplate and Fielder can be categorized as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by React.js Boilerplate are:
- Using react-transform-hmr, your changes in the CSS and JS get reflected in the app instantly without refreshing the page. That means that the current application state persists even when you change something in the underlying code! For a very good explanation and demo, watch Dan Abramov himself talking about it at react-europe.
- Redux is a much better implementation of a flux–like, unidirectional data flow. Redux makes actions composable, reduces the boilerplate code and makes hot–reloading possible in the first place. For a good overview of redux, check out the talk linked above or the official documentation!
- Babel is a modular JavaScript transpiler that helps to use next generation JavaScript and more, like transformation for JSX, hot loading, error catching etc. Babel has a solid ecosystem of offical preset and plugins.
On the other hand, Fielder provides the following key features:
- Validation can easily be added and removed to a form
- Only validate what the user can see (see cross form validation below)
- No need for a large set of upfront domain knowledge
React.js Boilerplate is an open source tool with 25.8K GitHub stars and 5.36K GitHub forks. Here's a link to React.js Boilerplate's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Fielder
Pros of React.js Boilerplate
- Amazing developer experience4
- Nice tooling4
- Easy setup3
- Easy offline first applications3
- Great documentation3
- Fast1