Burgett Consulting

When your building a new web project or progressive web app, it can be hard to choose a front end framework. Let me break down the benefits and disadvantages of the top 3 web front end frameworks for you to make it easier!

React is by far the most popular framework these days. It was originally created in 2011 at facebook but is now used widely in web and mobile applications. React is extremely flexible with the most 3rd party libraries out of the popular front end frameworks, but can be bulky and complex for most applications. One main advantage is its so popular that its easy to find developers who have experience in it.

Angular was actually invented (at Google) before react, although its not as popular as React. But its a bit more fleshed out as a fully fledged framework whereas React is more focused on the front end only. Also you develop in Angular thru the typescript 'language' (which is a strongly typed version of javascript). Typescript is hard to get the hang of but can catch many errors early in the development processes. While not as popualr as React, Angular is used by many large corporations and has a large following. But it is even bulkier than React because of all the features it comes with. So if you are looking for a fast loading framework and speed is key, you might want to stay away.

Vue is the 'new kid' of the big 3 frameworks and is a middle ground between the two. It has more features like Angular, but is not bloated and can be implemented incrementally in your code base. Its ecosystem is much smaller than React or Angular, meaning there is less corporate support and its harder to find developers, but it is easier for developers to learn compared to React and Angular.

If you have a web app or software project and need a hand, feel free to pm me or reply to this post. We would be happy to take a look!