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Rax vs Svelte: What are the differences?
Developers describe Rax as "🎩 A universal React-compatible render engine (by Alibaba)". Rax is a universal JavaScript library with a largely React-compatible API. If you use React, you already know how to use Rax. ⚡️ Fast: blazing fast virtual DOM. 🎯 Tiny: 8.0 KB minified + gzipped. 🎨 Universal: works in browsers, Weex, and Node.js. On the other hand, Svelte is detailed as "A UI framework that compiles into tiny standalone JavaScript modules". 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.
Rax and Svelte belong to "Javascript UI Libraries" category of the tech stack.
Rax and Svelte are both open source tools. It seems that Svelte with 20.6K GitHub stars and 769 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Rax with 5.3K GitHub stars and 479 GitHub forks.
Svelte is everything a developer could ever want for flexible, scalable frontend development. I feel like React has reached a maturity level where there needs to be new syntactic sugar added (I'm looking at you, hooks!). I love how Svelte sets out to rebuild a new language to write interfaces in from the ground up.
Svelte 3 is exacly what I'm looking for that Vue is not made for.
It has a iterable dom just like angular but very low overhead.
This is going to be used with the application.
for old/ lite devices . ie. * android tv, * micro linux, * possibly text based web browser for ascci and/or linux framebuffer * android go devices * android One devices
Pros of Rax
Pros of Svelte
- Performance59
- Reactivity41
- Components36
- Simplicity35
- Javascript compiler (do that browsers don't have to)34
- Lightweight30
- Near to no learning curve28
- Real Reactivity26
- Fast as vanilajs26
- All in one22
- Compiler based18
- Use existing js libraries18
- SSR17
- Scalable16
- Very easy for beginners16
- Composable13
- No runtime overhead12
- Ease of use12
- Built in store10
- Typescript9
- Start with pure html + css7
- Best Developer Experience7
- Templates6
- Speed4
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Cons of Rax
Cons of Svelte
- Event Listener Overload3
- Little to no libraries2
- Complex2
- Learning Curve2
- Hard to learn2
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