SPA Frameworks – A Comparison Between Angular, React, and Vue | Limra Softech
With the change of the World Wide Web
towards the phenomenon of Web 2.0, the Internet has been continuously developed
and supplemented over the years by new innovative technologies, which from now
on increasingly rely on user experience (UX) and try to move user interaction
more and more into the center of the action.
As a result, in addition to the further
development of the Internet, there was also a change in applications, which
from now on should pursue the purpose of becoming increasingly interactive. Desktop
applications have gradually been replaced by the classic web applications and
these in turn by the so-called “Rich Internet Applications” (RIAs), which serve
as the current standard for web applications. RIAs try to combine the ease of
use, the speed of reaction, and the offline capability of desktop applications
with the availability and easy installation of a web application to achieve a
better UX.
A special form of RIAs that implements
these conditions particularly well and is already used by companies such as
Facebook, Google, or Instagram is the so-called “Single-Page Application”
(SPA). With the single-page principle, there is no longer a complete page
change, as is customary with traditional web applications, but only a change in
the user interface, which leads to a direct reaction to user input while
reducing the waiting time. Since in SPAs, in contrast to classic web
applications, the business logic that is implemented using JavaScript is on the
client-side, the complexity increases on this, which makes the creation more
time-consuming and difficult for the developer.
To counteract this complexity and to
facilitate the development of SPAs, an important tool called the SPA Framework
has established itself over the years, which provides the developer with a
programming framework, consisting of libraries including their functionalities
and methods, to help him implement support from SPAs. Due to the continuous
change of the web described at the beginning, in addition to web applications,
SPA frameworks are constantly being renewed and improved. In the meantime, this
has led to rather confusing web development. To
counteract this problem, three of the most popular SPA frameworks should now be
presented and evaluated based on predefined requirements.
Angular
The open source framework Angular,
published by Google in 2016, was developed with the aim of increasingly
positioning itself not only for the creation of websites but also for the area
of cross-platform development. An important aspect of Angular is therefore
the platform independence, through which the framework can be addressed on
several platforms such as on the desktop or the smartphone. Platform
independence is also one of the most important characteristics of SPAs.
Angular uses a component-based
architecture that guarantees a high level of reusability of components in the
entire application and impresses with both high code quality and high
performance, which is sometimes due to hierarchical dependency injection or
Angular Universal. In addition, Angular uses server-side pre-rendering, which
ensures that all search engines have access to the application’s content and
that social media apps can display the site previews correctly.
Angular’s weaknesses are, on the one
hand, the decreasing community support, which is sometimes noticeable in both
the learning interest and user satisfaction rates, and, on the other hand, the
steep learning curve, which is due to the complexity and detail of the
framework.
In summary, Angular is ideally designed
for enterprise-level applications.
This is due both to TypeScript, whose tooling provides advanced
auto-completion, navigation, and refactoring services and to the exhaustiveness
of the SPA framework, which entails a long learning curve and a lot of
investment in time.
Strengths
- Platform independence
- Component-based architecture
- Typescript
- Google Long-Term Support
Weaknesses
- Community support
- complexity
- steep learning curve
React
In contrast to Angular, which provides
an efficient SPA framework, a JavaScript open source library including JSX
compiler was developed with React, which is mainly oriented towards the user
interface and enables reusable components to be created. React offers a
UI-focused solution that ultimately offers users a very responsive and smooth
loading surface.
After the JavaScript library was
released as an open source tool in 2013, it quickly enjoyed great popularity
due to its revolutionary approach to programming user interfaces. React is not
only backed by the internet giant Facebook, but also by a steadily growing
community with an immense pace of development. React solutions are on the one
hand SEO-friendly and
on the other hand offer high performance and flexibility through the use of the
Virtual DOM. Programming for the developer is also both accurate and convenient
thanks to the reusability of components and the unidirectional data flow, which
ensures the stability of the program code.
Despite the fact that React has a
relatively high learning curve due to the multitude of React tools, according
to many developers it still makes app development easy and understandable and
is perfect for creating an advanced, modern user interface.
However, since React is just a
JavaScript library, it should be noted that it is better suited for developing
smaller applications, as it can be difficult to select and assemble the right
tools for large web applications using React.
Strengthen
- Virtual DOM
- Reusability of components
- Flexibility
- Unidirectional data flow
- Community support
Weaknesses
- High speed of development
- React ecosystem
- Complexity (JSX)
Vue
The second version of the open source
framework Vue, released in 2016, was developed by developer Evan You with the
aim of combining the best of Angular and React, which he succeeded in doing in
many ways.
Vue offers bidirectional data binding,
server-side rendering, TypeScript, and JSX support, and a similar
component-based architecture as Angular. All of these features have been
combined into a handy, lightweight package that allows Vue to score points in
terms of both size and performance compared to React or Angular.
Due to the compatibility with other SPA
frameworks, the small size, the simple structure, and the extensive
documentation, the open source SPA framework also requires a very short
learning curve, which makes getting started with Vue immensely easier. Thanks
to the good CLI, a Vue project can be created in just a few moves and a Vue
component can be easily integrated into existing applications.
In addition, Vue impresses with its
flexibility in the data flow, as it supports both bidirectional communication,
which facilitates and accelerates the handling of HTML blocks, and
unidirectional communication, which is important when working with various
components. In addition, Vue uses a flexible ecosystem similar to React, which
can be individually adapted to the requirements of an application of any size
and offers the developer a lot of freedom and the possibility to combine Vue
with different libraries. However, too much freedom and flexibility can also
have a disadvantage in the decision-making process, since the developer has to
find the most suitable one among a multitude of possible useful libraries.
All in all, Vue is particularly
suitable for the rapid development of cross-platform web application solutions.
It offers a basis for demanding SPAs as well as an advantageous solution for
applications in which the performance of a good code organization or
application structure is paramount.
Strengthen
Component-based architecture
- Flexibility
- Simplicity
- Small size
- Low learning curve
Weaknesses
- Community size
- Vue ecosystem
Angular vs. React
vs. Vue
Since each of the presented frameworks
contains different functionalities and methods as well as different advantages
and disadvantages, it is very difficult to find a winner or a “to-go SPA
framework”.
However, in order to facilitate the
decision-making process for one of the frameworks presented, it makes perfect
sense to define predefined requirements for the framework that are tailored to
the individual application and to use these to weigh the SPA frameworks
comparatively. Ultimately, by evaluating it, a decision can be made on the SPA
framework that is most suitable for the application. Important requirements
could be, for example:
It should have a modular architecture
and be stable.
-> Angular, React, Vue
It should be supported by large
companies and/or projects.
-> Angular, React
It should be flexible and give the
developer a lot of freedom.
-> React, Vue
It should have a short learning curve
and development time.
-> Vue
It should be as simple as possible in
structure and small in size.
-> Vue, React
It should achieve high performance.
-> Angular, React, Vue
It should have easy to understand and
extensive documentation.
-> Angular, React, Vue
It should allow the integration of
Bootstrap.
-> Angular, React, Vue
Ideally, it should allow HTML and CSS
to be reused.
-> Angular, Vue
Summary
Based on the example, the decision
would presumably fall in favor of the SPA framework Vue, since apart from the
fact that, unlike Angular or React, it is not supported by Internet giants such
as Google or Facebook, but is now supported by companies such as Alibaba or
projects such as Laravel, all requirements met.
However, since we are in a constant
state of flux in the world of the Internet, a lot of movement and dynamism can
be expected in the SPA frameworks market in the next few years, which only
plays into the cards for us developers and constantly opens up new
opportunities brings.
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