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React Canvas vs React Starter Kit: What are the differences?
React Canvas: High performance canvas rendering for React components, developed by Flipboard. React Canvas adds the ability for React components to render to "canvas" rather than DOM. This project is a work-in-progress. Though much of the code is in production on flipboard.com, the React canvas bindings are relatively new and the API is subject to change; React Starter Kit: A skeleton of an "isomorphic" web application / SPA built with React.js, Express, Flux, and more. React Starter Kit is an opinionated boilerplate for web development built on top of Facebook's React library, Node.js / Express server and Flux architecture. Containing modern web development tools such as Webpack, Babel and BrowserSync.
React Canvas and React Starter Kit can be categorized as "JavaScript Framework Components" tools.
React Canvas and React Starter Kit are both open source tools. React Starter Kit with 19.3K GitHub stars and 3.89K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Canvas with 12K GitHub stars and 944 GitHub forks.
Pros of React Canvas
Pros of React Starter Kit
- Great project structure for React.js applications2
- Server-side rendering2
- Universal (isomorphic) web app boilerplate2
- BrowserSync and React Hot Loader integration2