The front-end development world is changing very fast – new technologies and frameworks are being released constantly and sometimes it’s hard to keep the overview. The front-end framework you choose can make or break your project on the long run. Choosing from amongst even the most popular JavaScript frameworks for a new project can be a challenging process. Popularity may not be an indicator of what is best for your project, but taking a look at the most popular selections may give you some ideas for something that fits your project requirements. So in this post, we will look at 20 Javascript UI Frameworks & Libraries for Better Frontend Experience.

Svelte

Svelte is different than other frameworks, basically it is a compiler more than framework. Svelte run build time, that mean it will not include framework itself as a hard dependencies, and performance efficiency is much higher than state driven frameworks like vue or react.

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Riot

There is no shortage of front-end frameworks and libraries to choose from, but Riot.js offers something unique. It’s incredibly simple, lightweight, and a flexible framework, making it a nice choice for rapid prototyping and scaffolding web applications.

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Hyperapp

It’s certainly not as popular and probably a little less performant than some of the other options, but it’s a lot less complicated and can accomplish quite a lot with a tiny 1KB footprint. Hyperapp’s main selling point for me was the fact that state management is well incorporated into the framework, along with virtual DOM, both essential for developing modern web apps. This means you don’t need a tool like Redux to manage state properly, reducing your web app’s size and helping you retain part of your sanity in the process.

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React

React JS is most popular JavaScript Library for building User Interfaces, which has created by Facebook. We can build modern, fast Single Page Applications or websites with React.

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Vue

Vue is a very popular JavaScript front-end framework, one that’s experiencing a huge amount of growth. It is simple, tiny (less than 24KB), and very performant. It feels different from all the other JavaScript front-end frameworks and view libraries.

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Angular.js

Angular is a web development platform built in TypeScript that provides developers with robust tools for creating the client side of web applications. This frontend tool is equipped with robust components to help developers write readable, maintainable, and easy-to-use code.

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Aurelia

Aurelia’s standards-based, unobtrusive style makes it the only framework that empowers you to build components using vanilla JavaScript or TypeScript. If you know modern JS and HTML, there’s little more to learn to build even the most complex apps.

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Ember.js

Ember is an open source JavaScript web framework that lets developers build scalable single web page applications by incorporating the best practices into the framework. Ember was named the best of client-side JavaScript frameworks, leaving behind its main competitors, React and AngularJS. With the help of the Babel JavaScript transpiler, Ember allows developers to use future JavaScript standards and transpile them for use in today’s browsers.

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Inferno

Inferno is a lightweight, blazingly-fast, and mobile-efficient JavaScript library. Derived from React, Inferno’s architecture & lifecycles will feel familiar, but its computational engines render it a totally different beast. Inferno stands as one of the fastest frameworks available and has been developed from the onset with a focus on performance while maintaining React compatibility.

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Meteor

Meteorjs is a free open source fullstack isomorphic Javascript framework, being isomorphic it runs Javascript both on the client and server, this helps you rapidly prototype and produce a working application in less time, because you use the language you already know, it was written on top of Nodejs to add on to the power tools that Nodejs provides.

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Backbone

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

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Mithril.js

A modern client-side Javascript framework for building Single Page Applications. It’s small (9.31 KB gzipped), fast and provides routing and XHR utilities out of the box.

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Knockout

Knockout is a JavaScript MVVM (a modern variant of MVC) library that makes it easier to create rich, desktop-like user interfaces with JavaScript and HTML. It uses observers to make your UI automatically stay in sync with an underlying data model, along with a powerful and extensible set of declarative bindings to enable productive development.

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Preact

Most UI frameworks are large enough to be the majority of an app’s JavaScript size. Preact is different: it’s small enough that your code is the largest part of your application. That means less JavaScript to download, parse and execute – leaving more time for your code, so you can build an experience you define without fighting to keep a framework under control.

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Stencil

Stencil is a simple compiler for generating Web Components and progressive web apps (PWA). Stencil was built by the Ionic Framework team for its next generation of performant mobile and desktop Web Components.

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Polymer

It is an open source JavaScript library that is used to create cross browser compatible web applications using reusable web components. Polymer lets you build encapsulated, reusable Web Components that work just like standard HTML elements, to use in building web applications. Using a Web Component built with Polymer is as simple as importing its definition then using it like any other HTML element:

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Flight

Flight is distinct from existing frameworks in that it doesn’t prescribe or provide any particular approach to rendering or providing data to a web application. It’s agnostic to how requests are routed, which templating language you use or even if you render your HTML on the client or the server. While some web frameworks encourage developers to arrange their code around a prescribed model layer, Flight is organized around the existing DOM model with functionality mapped directly to DOM nodes.

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Choo

Learning frameworks is boring. So instead of inventing a new language, Choo relies on vanilla JS and HTML. Combined with its small API and clean architecture this means Choo is easy to get started with, and stays that way as projects grow in scope and humans.

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Nerv

Nerv is a virtual-dom based TypeScript library with identical React 16 API, which offers much higher performance, tinier package size and better browser compatibility.

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Solid

Solid is yet another declarative Javascript library for creating user interfaces. It does not use a Virtual DOM. Instead it opts to compile its templates down to real DOM nodes and wrap updates in fine grained computations. This way when your state updates only the code that depends on it runs.

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