The Best JavaScript Frameworks You’re Not Using

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React Landing Page
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React

A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Pricing:
- Open Source
The value in the last row, “slowdown geometric mean” is an overall score and we can see that Inferno significantly outperforms React 16. In fairness to React, Inferno also outperforms Vue and Angular (as well as many others). React is used here only because it is most similar to Inferno.

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Vue.js Landing Page
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Vue.js

Reactive Components for Modern Web Interfaces
Pricing:
- Open Source
Vue is faster overall in these benchmarks! Svelte does significantly outperform Vue in the non-keyed version of these tests, although I won’t include those results here (they are in the performance article I referenced above). As I said, performance can be tricky and it often depends on what you’re measuring.

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AngularJS Landing Page

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AngularJS

AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop.

The value in the last row, “slowdown geometric mean” is an overall score and we can see that Inferno significantly outperforms React 16. In fairness to React, Inferno also outperforms Vue and Angular (as well as many others). React is used here only because it is most similar to Inferno.

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Inferno Landing Page
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Inferno

An extremely fast React-like javascript library for building modern user interfaces.
Pricing:
- Open Source
There isn’t an overall number we can use to gauge performance on the chart above, but smaller numbers are better. Obviously, Inferno performs very well again. If you’re a React developer and have a project that requires excellent performance, Inferno is definitely something you should consider. We’ll finish with this from the Inferno “About” page:

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Svelte Landing Page
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Svelte

Cybernetically enhanced web apps
Pricing:
- Open Source
Svelte works differently than some of the other front end libraries/frameworks that you may be familiar with. Your code is compiled at build time and this has big performance benefits. In fact, Svelte is one of the best performers in recent benchmarks.…

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Preact.js Landing Page
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Preact.js

Preact is a fast 3kB alternative to React with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.
Pricing:
- Open Source
One thing you may be wondering…if Preact is faster on page load, what are some of the trade-offs Ben Halpern mentioned in his quote above? There is a great discussion thread started by Dan Abramov of the React team that addresses this. Responding to a question asking for his thoughts on Preact, Dan has this to say:

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