>>Hello, this question presents itself, because we are in the process to decide which JS Framework to use. So I am curious if someone has past experience what would help with this decision?
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>late 16 I did some small JS jobs. My search criteria were seated on the "barebone" fwk side as I did not want to depend on any fwk too much, but wanted a skeleton with the places identified which I could flesh out - in part peronal preference, in part a result of the use cases I was facing.
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>Angular (both 1.x and new one without JS) was eliminated early on - I contrasted my results against React on the "big fwk" side.
>My top contenders were Mithril and Vue - and Vue growth since then has validated my selection.
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>For the small fry I did flux architecture was not needed - corresponding Vuex also not, stayed with traditional observables with added "reactive" methods in data store. Nowadays React also supports a data structure similar to basic Vue.
>Docs on Vue well fitting for my needs - explaining things in detail without forcing huge amount of text to read.
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>Faced with the decision again (few small apps to build) I'd probably decide on Vue again or go for even leaner fwk, perhaps Svelte or one of the Hyper.... fwks (there were a few, don't remember how the one I like most was called), but I am fond of reading about IT architecture and the reason one was chosen. I also was tempted by Meteor, as many of their axions run parallell to mine, but back then it was focused on Mongo and local mini-Mongo - noSQL not my target. But an interersting read and concept.
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>There is a benchmark series around JS frameworks I read in detail (google Krause), as they touched size, speed, memory and repeated measurements again with more current versions. Also the DBMonster results influenced me as well as code comparison of the To-Do-Lost examples given with oodles of fwks to give a nice oversight.
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>I referred John Fabiani to Mithril and Vue when he faced similar conundrum, he liked Vue so much that he did much more with it - perhaps contact directly. But he was wondering whether to go pure JS - so not really interested in the full learning expirience of large fwks. He and Vue clicked as well...
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>Give more weight to the amount of work to do in the next 24 months, the backend structure you will be targeting and how easy to grok example code is for you and your team. With more work to do React benefits will be relatively stronger compared to the few things I did in JS.
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>my 0.02€
>thomas

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the great insights, I appreciate it.