Inferno vs React.js Boilerplate: What are the differences?

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; 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.

Inferno and React.js Boilerplate can be primarily classified 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, React.js Boilerplate provides the following key features:

• 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.

Inferno and React.js Boilerplate are both open source tools. It seems that React.js Boilerplate with 22.9K GitHub stars and 4.59K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Inferno with 13.8K GitHub stars and 636 GitHub forks.