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GWT vs Mithril: What are the differences?

What is GWT? *An open-source set of tools to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications *. It is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript.

What is Mithril? Client-side MVC framework - a tool to organize code in a way that is easy to think about and to maintain. Mithril is around 12kb gzipped thanks to its small, focused, API. It provides a templating engine with a virtual DOM diff implementation for performant rendering, utilities for high-level modelling via functional composition, as well as support for routing and componentization.

GWT and Mithril can be primarily classified as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools.

Mithril is an open source tool with 11.6K GitHub stars and 865 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mithril's open source repository on GitHub.

Dial Once, Cloud Vlts, Inc., and Kong are some of the popular companies that use Mithril, whereas GWT is used by LTE Consulting, Whatfix, and Unmetric. Mithril has a broader approval, being mentioned in 14 company stacks & 35 developers stacks; compared to GWT, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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      Lightweight
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      Faster than React
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      Pure JavaScript
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      Virtual Dom
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      Robust
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      Unopinionated
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      Works with ES6
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      Very active development
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      Intelligent auto-redrawing system
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      Flux compatible
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      Small Learning Curve

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        Virtual Dom

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      What is GWT?

      It is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript.

      What is Mithril?

      Mithril is around 12kb gzipped thanks to its small, focused, API. It provides a templating engine with a virtual DOM diff implementation for performant rendering, utilities for high-level modelling via functional composition, as well as support for routing and componentization.

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        What are some alternatives to GWT and Mithril?
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        Angular
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