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JavaScript popularity continues to rise and at this stage, it is used on both client-side and server-side. Various JavaScript frameworks are used to design amazing interfaces, enriched web apps with numerous features, modifying web pages in real time and much more. JavaScript is one of the most loved frameworks to develop apps packed with powerful features and enhanced user experience.
What is component-based web development?
Components-based web development is a new theme circling the front-end web development scene these days. This new style focuses on creating some small and self-contained components that can be strung together to build a full-featured user interface (UI). This system is not based on a new idea but in recent years, the JavaScript frameworks have made it feasible to build an entire front-end using these components.
The rise of JS Frameworks
The javascript frameworks in the last couple of years have really established themselves in the Web developer mainstream by adding extremely wide range uptake that happened quickly. With the rise of javascript framework, all the developers which were earlier hesitant to use such complex developments are now willing to jump in headfirst.
JavaScript frameworks have also raised the bar for all other frameworks making it the new touchstone for any sort of development for all rich client-side applications.
Some of the most popular frameworks in use are:
Angular Js
Angular JS has had a long reign as the most popular JavaScript development framework. It is to be noted that it is often referred to as an MVW (Model-View-Whatever) framework and among the top benefits, for startups and mid-sized companies, quick code production, easy testing of any app part and two-way data binding. Angular 2 allows the business organizations to build web applications with a set of all new features that encapsulate all the style and function required for a certain feature to work. This not only allows development on the web rather on mobile devices as well.
Top websites and web apps developed using Angular framework
React Js
React components implement a render method that forms the letter V in MVW for Angular js. The term V stand for view and the same is the function of React.js i.e. to process data and to decide what to view or what to show in such development for a business organization. This helps in putting up a superior performance as a components-oriented framework.
Top websites and web apps developed using React framework
Vue JS
Vue.js has its defining mantra, “the progressive JavaScript framework”. This framework encourages you to incrementally adopt Vue components into your app’s UI as per the requirement. It is loved the most by the developers due to faster learning curve in order to build high- end applications.
Top websites and web apps developed using Vue framework
A comparative study of Angular vs React vs Vue
| Technology | Angular | React | Vue |
| Developer | OpenSource | ||
| Technology type | Full-fledged MVC framework written in JavaScript | JavaScript library (View in MVC; requires Flux to implement architecture) | JavaScript library |
| Concept | Brings JavaScript into HTML Works with the real DOM Client-side rendering | Brings HTML into JavaScript Works with the virtual DOM Server-side rendering | Uses HTML-based templates that makes it much easier to progressively migrate existing applications. |
| Data binding | Two-way data binding | One-way data binding | Both one-way and two-way data binding, with its one-way data binding mode being the default state |
| Dependencies | Manages dependencies automatically | Requires additional tools to manage dependencies | Manages dependencies automatically |
| Language | JavaScript + HTML | JavaScript + JSX | JavaScript + HTML-based templates |
| Last version | AngularJS 1.6.0 RC2 | React 15 | Vue v2.5.17 |
| Suits best | Best for SPAs that update single view at a time | Best for SPAs that update many views at a time | Best for medium-sized SPAs that require faster development. |
Future of components-based web development
As per the age-old trend in technology, every invention ends up sorting itself out and building on top of the previous generation to extend new functionality, we’re in for a rough ride for this next iteration of frameworks.
One cannot simply select the right JavaScript framework considering the features that each can offer. It depends on initial company goals, project requirements, general framework functionality and how it can be applied to each particular case. When it comes to quick web development or prototyping, JavaScript frameworks are among the most favorable and 2018 won’t become an exception. These frameworks and libraries have already reshaped the way how JS collaborates with HTML and CSS to compile views in browsers and on native platforms.
