Title: Comparing Two Frontend Technologies: Vue.js Vs. Svelte Importance of choosing the right frontend technologies
Technical Article by Ataiko Valerian
Frontend technologies determine the look, feel, and responsiveness of the app, directly impacting user satisfaction and engagement. So it is important to create a very captivating and intriguing frontend technologies. Basically frontend technologies are an essential part of web development that enhance user interface and overall experience.
TECHNOLOGIES TO BE COMPARED:
1 vue.JS
2 SVELTE
OVERVIEW
Vue.js is a progressive JAVASCRIPT framework that’s approachable and builds on top standard HTML, CSS and JAVASCRIPT with intuitive API and world class documentation. Vue.js is an open-source model view view-model front end JAVASCRIPT framework for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It was created by EVAN You and it’s maintained by him and the rest of the active core team members. Vue.js features an incrementally adaptable architecture that focuses on declarative rendering and component composition. Vue component extend basic HTML elements to encapsulate reusable code at high level, components are custom elements vue’s compiler attaches behavior. In vue , a component is essentially a Vue instance with predefined options.
Svelte is a free and open-source component based front end software framework and language. It was created by Rich Harris and maintained by the svelte core team. Svelte is not a monolithic JAVASCRIPT library imported by application instead, Svelte compiles HTML templates to specialized code that manipulates the DOM directly, which may reduce the size of files and give better client performance. Application code is also processed by the compiler, inserting calls to automatically recompute data and re render UI elements when the data they depend on is modified. They also avoid overhead associated with runtime intermediate representations such as virtual DOM, unlike Traditional framework which carry out the bulk of their work at runtime i.e in the browser.
Comparison:
• Svelte helps to increase the client performance when compared to Vue.Js
• Svelte is easier to learn than the Vue.js because it uses simple code that looks a lot like the basic HTML, CSS and JAVASCRIPT. Svelte also take care of the tricky parts like making sure styles don’t clash and updating your app automatically when data changes.
•The Svelte maintainers created SvelteKit as the official way to build projects with Svelte. It is a Next-js style framework that dramatically reduces the amount of code that gets sent to the browser. The maintainer had previously created Sapper which was the predecessor of SvelteKit.
The svelte maintainers also maintain a number of integrations for popular software projects under the Svelte organization including integrations for Vite, Rollup, Webpack, TypeScript, Vs code, Chrome Developer Tools, ESLint, and prettier. A number of external projects such as storybook have also created integrations with Svelte and SvelteKit.
While VUE.Js on the otherhand uses Devtools for debugging, Vite stand tooling for rapid development, Vue loader that allow the writing of Vue components in a format called single-file component.
Vue official Libraries are:
Vue router
Vuex
Vue Server Renderer which is a server side rendering library
Pinia which is a simple state management
REACT.JS
React is a free open source front end Javascript library for building user interfaces based on components. It is maintained by Meta and a community of individual developers and companies. React can be used to develop single page mobile or server rendered applications with frameworks like Next.js becaceuse react is only concerned with user interface and rendering component to the DOM, React often depend on libraries for routing and other client side functionality. A key advantage of React is that it only rerenders those parts of the page that have changed, avoiding unnecessary rerendering of unchanged DOM elements.
HNG has chosen React because it has an isolated debugging system that helps to achieve better app stability and it prevents the rerendering of those parts of the page that have changed avoiding the rerendering of unchanged DOM.
HNG also chose React because its flexibility, efficiency and Robustness which makes it an ideal solution for developing large-scale web applications.
CONCLUSION
Basically Svelte increases client performance, it is easier to learn and work with. Vue on the other hand has features that are adaptable and focuses on rendering and component composition. Personally I will prefer the Svelte because of the fact that it increase client performance and it is easy to learn. I will also recommend that companies adapt it in the work environment to enable new developers learn faster.
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