React vs winjs: What are the differences?
What is React? A JavaScript library for building user interfaces. 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.
What is winjs? A UI toolkit for modern browsers, by Microsoft. WinJS is a set of JavaScript toolkits that allow developers to build applications using HTML/JS/CSS technology forged with the following principles in mind:
- Provide developers with a distinctive set of UI controls with high polish and performance with fundamental support for touch, mouse, keyboard and accessibility
- Provide developers with a cohesive set of components and utilities to build the scaffolding and infrastructure of their applications'.
React and winjs can be categorized as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
React and winjs are both open source tools. It seems that React with 132K GitHub stars and 24.5K forks on GitHub has more adoption than winjs with 4.07K GitHub stars and 504 GitHub forks.