Inferno vs Re-base: What are the differences?

What is Inferno? A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs. Inferno is an isomorphic library for building high-performance user interfaces, which is crucial when targeting mobile devices. Unlike typical virtual DOM libraries like React, Mithril, Virtual-dom, Snabbdom and Om, Inferno uses techniques to separate static and dynamic content. This allows Inferno to only "diff" renders that have dynamic values.

What is Re-base? A Relay inspired library for building React.js + Firebase applications. React.js makes managing state easy to reason about. Firebase makes persisting your data easy to implement. re-base, inspired by Relay, combines the benefits of React and Firebase by allowing each component to specify its own data dependency. Forget about your data persistence and focus on what really matters, your application's state.

Inferno and Re-base can be categorized as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by Inferno are:

• One of the fastest front-end frameworks for rendering UI in the DOM
• Components have a similar API to React ES2015 components with inferno-component
• Stateless components are fully supported and have more usability thanks to Inferno's hooks system

On the other hand, Re-base provides the following key features:

• syncState: Two way data binding between any property on your component's state and any endpoint in Firebase. Use the same API you're used to to update your component's state (setState), and Firebase will also update.
• bindToState: One way data binding. Whenever your Firebase endpoint changes, the property on your state will update as well.
• listenTo: Whenever your Firebase endpoint changes, it will invoke a callback passing it the new data from Firebase.

Inferno and Re-base are both open source tools. It seems that Inferno with 13.8K GitHub stars and 636 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Re-base with 2.13K GitHub stars and 162 GitHub forks.