KnockoutJS vs MobX

Overview

Knockout

Stacks369

Followers202

Votes6

GitHub Stars10.5K

Forks1.5K

MobX

Stacks847

Followers516

Votes114

GitHub Stars28.1K

Forks1.8K

KnockoutJS vs MobX: What are the differences?

What is KnockoutJS? Knockout makes it easier to create rich, responsive UIs with JavaScript. Knockout is a JavaScript MVVM (a modern variant of MVC) library that makes it easier to create rich, desktop-like user interfaces with JavaScript and HTML. It uses observers to make your UI automatically stay in sync with an underlying data model, along with a powerful and extensible set of declarative bindings to enable productive development.

What is MobX? Simple, scalable state management. MobX is a battle tested library that makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming (TFRP). React and MobX together are a powerful combination. React renders the application state by providing mechanisms to translate it into a tree of renderable components. MobX provides the mechanism to store and update the application state that React then uses.

KnockoutJS belongs to "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category of the tech stack, while MobX can be primarily classified under "State Management Library".

KnockoutJS and MobX are both open source tools. It seems that MobX with 19.8K GitHub stars and 1.21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than KnockoutJS with 9.54K GitHub stars and 1.54K GitHub forks.

Udemy, Swat.io, and Talkable are some of the popular companies that use MobX, whereas KnockoutJS is used by Runscope, Huddle, and EasyPreOrders. MobX has a broader approval, being mentioned in 52 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to KnockoutJS, which is listed in 28 company stacks and 21 developer stacks.

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Knockout	MobX
It is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), it can help you implement it more simply and maintainably.	MobX is a battle tested library that makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming (TFRP). React and MobX together are a powerful combination. React renders the application state by providing mechanisms to translate it into a tree of renderable components. MobX provides the mechanism to store and update the application state that React then uses.
Easily associate DOM elements with model data using a concise, readable syntax; When your data model's state changes, your UI updates automatically; Implicitly set up chains of relationships between model data, to transform and combine it; Quickly generate sophisticated, nested UIs as a function of your model data	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 10.5K	GitHub Stars 28.1K
GitHub Forks 1.5K	GitHub Forks 1.8K
Stacks 369	Stacks 847
Followers 202	Followers 516
Votes 6	Votes 114
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Data centered application 2 Great for validations 1 Open source	Pros 26 It's just stupidly simple, yet so magical 18 Easier and cleaner than Redux 15 Fast 13 React integration 13 Automagic updates Cons 1 Maturity
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JavaScript	React

What are some alternatives to Knockout, MobX?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

Redux

It helps you write applications that behave consistently, run in different environments (client, server, and native), and are easy to test. t provides a great experience, such as live code editing combined with a time traveling debugger.

Svelte

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.

Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.

Famo.us

Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.