Dimitri Glazkov, Alex Komoroske, and I started the project that designed and (for many years) iterated on Web Components with a few primary goals in mind:

• Enhance component portability
• Shrink the amount of infrastructure code required over-the-wire and at runtime
• Enable the browser to optimize components

All of this was wrapped up in our project’s mantra: “say what you mean”.

Our position was (and is) that developers shouldn’t need to write the word function when they meant class or module and they shouldn’t have to type <div class="tree-control"> or torture existing HTML elements to “mean” something they clearly did not. JavaScript programmers should be able to instantiate components naturally (

Framework Churn: that breakneck pace of creation and abandonment that plagues the JavaScript community. Here one day, out the next. Hot today, obsolete in a year. Number one loved on the Hacker News frontpage, now number one hated on the Hacker News comments.

Framework Churn is something every one of us deals with in the JavaScript community. How do we know that big investment we’re making in Tool/Framework X is going to be relevant in a year, five years, twenty years? It’s at the point now that many are afraid to pick anything for fear it’ll be irrelevant long before the life of the product built with it.

Deciding on a JavaScript framework for your web application can be overwhelming. Angular and React are very popular these days, and there is an upstart which has been getting a lot of traction lately: VueJS. What’s more, these are just a few of the new kids on the block.

First, I’d like to discuss lifecycle & strategic considerations. Then, we’ll move to the features & concepts of the three javascript frameworks. Finally, we’ll come to a conclusion.

Here are the questions we’ll address today:

• How mature are the frameworks / libraries?
• Are the frameworks likely to be around for a while?
• How extensive and helpful are their corresponding communities

The purpose of this post is to emphasize the importance of JavaScript fundamentals for every front-end developer. I’m going to tell you why you should have a good knowledge of pure (Vanilla) JavaScript. This means JavaScript without any additional frameworks or libraries.

I’ll also mention a couple of resources that helped me to learn these basics.

Another reason behind this post is that many aspiring web developers tend to skip learning core JavaScript concepts such as hoisting, closures, or prototypes. They go straight to the hottest frameworks such as React or Angular 2. I’ll show you why this approach is not the most convenient one.

Full Disclosure: someone mentioned I should say I’m a community member of Angular and contributed largely to it. I’m not trying to spread FUD. If I was the title should be way more clickbaity and would purposely be one sided (like other articles in the resources link). With that said I use all frameworks: vue, react, angular, mercury, preact, and my own that I’m working on. I’m also invested in React and GraphQL as we use it in our own SaaS product. I would prefer be mentioned as a JavaScript community member rather than limited to one. That’s why my name is PatrickJS not PatrickNG.

A CSS framework is a collection of CSS files containing predefined rules for layout, typography and other CSS resets. if you are a developer you might hear of terms like boilerplates, grid systems etc. Each one of them promising more than the next one. For the most part, they all refers to a collection of assets that are design to speed up the development.

CSS frameworks focused on responsive web design aspects. CSS framework cover all area of a responsive web development like typography, user interface layout etc. A good CSS framework may contain a grid system, Typography styles, CSS resets, layout models, and browser fixes. You don’t need to write a code from scratch, frameworks will provide codes for basic elements.

For many software development companies, the question of choosing development environments for their products is very acute. The problem of selecting libraries and frameworks is generally a quite complicated subject especially in the case of ReactJS vs VueJS or Angular vs React. Often various suppliers offer products really similar in their properties and contents, and to make the more or less weighted decision, long and hard study to understand the capabilities of each is needed.

This problem is especially true in the case of React JavaScript framework comparison with Vue: both the frameworks are ideal for creating additional user elements, both vendors promise the efficient work of their products and, at first glance, the difference between Vue and React is virtually nonexistent.

When we set out to build MeetSpace (a video conferencing app for distributed teams), we had a familiar decision to make: What’s our tech stack going to be? We gathered our requirements, reviewed our team’s skillset and ultimately decided to use vanilla JavaScript and to avoid a front-end framework.

Using this approach, we were able to create an incredibly fast and light web application that is also less work to maintain over time. The average page load on MeetSpace15 has just 1 uncached request and is 2 KB to download, and the page is ready within 200 milliseconds. Let’s take a look at what went into this decision and how we achieved these results.

There’s been a lot of development in the frontend frameworks ecosystem over the last seven years. We’ve learned a lot about what it takes to build and maintain large applications. We’ve seen many new ideas emerge. Some of these new ideas changed how we build web applications, and others we discarded because they did not work.

In the process, we saw a lot of hype and conflicting opinions that made it difficult to choose a framework. This choice is especially difficult when you’re picking a framework for an organization that will be responsible for maintaining this application for a long time.

In this article, I would like to describe the evolution of our understanding of how to build modern web applications and suggest a way of thinking about which technology to choose.

Much of everything front-end is being built with React. It seems that React isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. One of the most important and promising aspects of React is working with code components. From buttons to scrollers and toolbars, these components are the building blocks of our UI applications.

React encapsulated components can manage their own state, and can be composed to make complex UIs. Since component logic is written in JavaScript instead of templates, you can easily pass rich data through your app and keep state out of the DOM. React enables you to split your UI into independent, reusable pieces, and think about each piece in isolation.

In the last couple of weeks I have started to see CSS Grid layout based frameworks and grid systems appearing. I’m actually surprised as to how long it has taken, but I am yet to see one that adds any value at all over just using CSS Grid Layout. Worse, the ones I have seen so far go backwards. They limit themselves by replicating the past rather than looking to the future. A common theme being that they require row wrappers in markup.

Grid is a grid system. It allows you to define columns and rows in your CSS, without needing to define them in markup. You don’t need a tool that helps you make it

JavaScript, the most commonly used language around the globe, continues to rise in popularity, making it essential for JavaScript developers to stay abreast of top frameworks available for it. However, the stint to pick the best JavaScript framework for your web development or app development project is not easy. You first need to assess your project needs and see how suitable the functionality of a particular framework is for your development project. Read this blog to know and understand top 6 JavaScript frameworks/libraries you may like to consider for your future development project.

A key to remember here is that every framework/library has its pros and cons. So, based on specific requirements of your development project, you could also find one, other than these five, the best fit for your project.

A collection of awesome browser-side JavaScript libraries, resources and shiny things.

• npm - npm is the package manager for javascript.
• Bower - A package manager for the web.
• component - Client package management for building better web applications.
• spm - Brand new static package manager.
• jam - A package manager using a browser-focused and RequireJS compatible repository.
• jspm - Frictionless browser package management.
• Ender - The no-library library.
• volo - Create front end projects from templates, add dependencies, and automate the resulting projects.
• Duo - Next-generation package manager that blends the best ideas from Component, Browserify and Go to make organizing and writing front-end code quick and painless.

I interviewed Evan You, the creator of vuejs.org which is a popular progressive JavaScript framework. Evan works on Vue full time with the funding from the Patreon campaign. Previously, he worked at Google and Meteor.

This article was originally posted on Between the Wires, an interview series featuring those who are building developer products.

Okay, so I was born in China, my hometown is called Wuxi. It’s a medium-sized city, which is right next to Shanghai. Actually, I went to Shanghai for high school for three years and commuted back and forth. After high school I went to the US for college. I guess I got early access to computers, but I didn’t really get into programming too much. I was more interested in games, and I did play a lot with Flash when I was in high school, because I really enjoyed making those interactive storytelling experiences.

It seems there are more JavaScript frameworks, libraries, and tools than there are developers. As of May 2017, a quick search on GitHub reveals more than 1.1 million JavaScript projects. There are 500 thousand usable packages on npmjs.org with almost 10 billion downloads every month.

2016.05.29: The article was updated to reflect the current state of the JavaScript ecosystem.

This article endeavors to explain the basics and rudimentary differences between the most popular client-side JavaScript frameworks, libraries, and tools. Whether they are “best” for you is another question. Choose something and stick with it for a while. Just be aware your favorite option will be superseded by something

With all of the trend changes and advancements that CSS goes through, we shouldn’t be surprised at the large volume of free resources and tools that have been released recently. These time-saving CSS libraries and tools have been built to make our lives that little bit easier and also offer a clear learning window into CSS properties that we may not have adopted yet or fully understand.

In this article we have collected 30 of our favorite CSS libraries, frameworks, and tools that been released so far this year.

All of the tools and libraries have been categorized into the following categories: Flexbox Tools & Libraries

WordPress core contributors have started collaborating more around their JavaScript efforts this year with regular core-js meetings. One item on the most recent meeting’s agenda was discussion on choosing a new JavaScript framework for use in core as an alternative to Backbone.

Contributors began by summarizing the criteria for evaluating framework options, includes factors like stability, longevity, maturity, adoption, accessibility, proven in a WordPress context, and extensibility, among others. Most of the discussion centered on the benefits and drawbacks of React vs Vue.

The majority of those who participated in the meeting seemed to favor React, as it is already used with several major WordPress projects such as Calypso, Gutenberg, and Jetpack. WordPress’ project lead, Matt Mullenweg, has publicly stated that Automattic is betting on React long-term. Mullenweg has also

Everyone's favorite sarcastic talking pushpin asked an honest question about the state of the web:

From the outside, front end development in 2017 looks pathologically overcomplicated. Is this a fair perception? If so, why is it happening?

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) May 21, 2017

I replied with a tweetstorm. Here it is as a slightly more readable blog post on my ancient, creaky blog.

The replies to Maciej's tweet are interesting to read. They fall roughly into two camps:

1. Older/not front-end developers: because the web is shit!
2. Current front-end developers: because shit is hard!

As is often the case, both camps are correct! The web is a shitshow of wheel reinvention and bad APIs. It's also a blizzard of innovation.

I assume you have Meteor js installed if not you can follow the instruction here. So let’s create a Meteor project called framework7-example

meteor create framework7-example

let’t add the framework 7 package into our Meteor project

cd framework7-example
meteor add keanghok:framework7

This package was fork from nobutakaoshiro:meteor-framework7-ios-material to make it compatible with the latest version of framework 7. It was suppose to act as pulling request but since the original dev is not responded yet so I have to create my own package in the at atmospherejs as a temporary solution to add it to the project.

Why is TypeScript getting so popular? Key development frameworks depend on it and it improves developer productivity in the ever-changing JavaScript world.

Nine and a half percent of the developers Stack Overflow surveyed are using TypeScript, making it the ninth most popular language, just ahead of Ruby and twice as popular with that audience as Perl. Stack Overflow reaches a diverse audience in this survey; the top two languages used are JavaScript and SQL, so this survey isn’t just querying front end development. In fact, TypeScript coders show up in all four of the job roles Stack Overflow asks about; web developers, desktop developers, admins and DevOps, and data scientists.

Software development teams often make decisions about software architecture or technological stack based on inaccurate opinions, social media, and in general on what is considered to be “hot”, rather than solid research and any serious consideration of expected impact on their projects. I call this trend Hype Driven Development, perceive it harmful and advocate for a more professional approach I call “Solid Software Engineering”. Learn more about how it works and find out what you can do instead.

Have you seen it? A team picking newest, hottest technology to apply in the project. Someone reads a blog post, it’s trending on Twitter and we just came back from a conference where there was a great talk about it. Soon after, the team starts using this new shiny technology (or software architecture design paradigm), but instead of going faster (as promised) and building a better product they get into trouble. They slow down, get demotivated, have problems delivering next working version to production. Some teams even keep fixing bugs instead of delivering new features. They need ‘just a few more days’ to sort it all out.

Build your apps only with best UI frameworks.

Personally, I don’t like it. Material UI had performance problems, but according to 3.0 release performance was improved.

I’m sure you know about Electron framework. If you’re interested in UI components for cross-platform desktop apps then React-Desktop is for you. You can find UI components for Mac OS and Windows 10 both.

Personally, I think it’s the best UI framework for React.

Semantic-UI-React — is the official clone of Semantic-UI for React. It has almost all most used components from Semantic-UI, but also it has a very good Declarative API, shorthand props for React components, and this UI framework is jQuery free.

This short guide is intended to catch you up with the most important reasoning, terms, tools, and approaches to JavaScript testing. It combines many great recently written articles about some aspects discussed here and adds a little more from our experience.

Look at the following Logo of Jest, a testing framework by Facebook.

And indeed, Facebook have an excellent reason to use this slogan. In general, JS developers are not too happy with website testing. JS tests tend to be limited, hard to implement, and slow.

Nevertheless, with the right strategy and the right combination of tools a nearly full coverage can be achieved and tests can be very organized, simple, and relatively fast.

Facebook has completely rewritten React, its popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. The company hasn’t previously talked much about React Fiber, as the project is called, but it has actually been working on it for a while. It’s now ready to talk about this project publicly in more detail (after word about it started spreading last year) and the plan is to put this rewrite into the hands of developers once React 16.0 launches later this year. It’s already in use on Facebook.com today, which clearly indicates that Facebook itself thinks it’s ready for prime time.

In addition, it is also launching a rewrite of Relay, its framework for building data-heavy applications.

Please do a mental experiment with me, imagine yourself back to 10 years ago stop reading for 5 seconds and take a breath.
Imagine then to meet a dev from the future telling you that in 10 years anyone will be writing their app routers in Javascript in this way

and that the markup of many websites could be rendered a in this way

what would you think?

Well if that happened to me I would say: ah ok so in future we will render HTML like we do it today in our file.include.php but with Javascript right? What’s the improvement? This is not even real Javascript right? Doesn’t it throw errors?

I am always open to new challenges and new technologies especially if they can improve my work flow and let me grow as developer. I care of the code I write for living because:

Should I choose Angular, or React? Today’s bipolar landscape of JavaScript frameworks has left many developers struggling to pick a side in this debate. Whether you’re a newcomer trying to figure out where to start, a freelancer picking a framework for your next project or an enterprise-grade architect planning a strategic vision for your company, you’re likely to benefit from having an educated view on this topic.

To save you some time, let me tell you something up front: this article won’t give a clear answer on which framework is better. But neither will hundreds of other articles with similar titles. I can’t tell you that because the answer depends on a wide range of factors which make a particular technology more or less suitable for your environment and use case.

There are a few things I look at when learning a new technology, and I’ll base my suggestions around three simple questions. How easy is it to setup? How easy is it to learn? How popular is it? Let’s get started!

React: Most React projects rely on JSX (writing HTML within Javascript). Browsers don’t recognize or understand this by default, which requires compiling those files to something useable by the browser. This introduced another step in the coding process, and a new environment (Node). Because React is a library, it also requires that you set up and configure each module you want to use.

It’s well known that PHP is a dead programming language and that its 22-year-old ecosystem is effectively useless now that we have Node and its fancy new asynchronous frameworks. Node’s superiority is evident because everyone knows that single-threaded, asynchronous, programs are better by default. Faster. Stronger, even.

“But Simon! Why?!”, you’re probably yelling at your MacBook screen. Here’s why:

PHP developers are not in demand at all. After ~22 years, all companies using PHP immediately gave up on it as soon as Node v0.0.1 was released because it was instantly the better application environment. Furthermore, everyone knows that to be a successful new startup (unlike Slack) you have to create Node-based web APIs backed by MongoDB. It’s simply impossible to be successful otherwise.