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JavaScript Frameworks and Libraries
3:15Developers often use a JavaScript framework or library to help increase efficiency and build projects faster. Many frameworks and libraries allow you to use reliable and effective software design patterns from the start.
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You can do some really complex
things with JavaScript, and
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there are many ways to
do the exact same thing.
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The features of years 2015 and
beyond are introducing even more ways.
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You'll see in here lots of varying
opinions favoring one method or
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style or another.
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So to help you make some of the low level
decisions, increase efficiency, and
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build projects faster,
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developers often use a frontend JavaScript
encrypted framework or library.
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Many frameworks and libraries help you
write clean modern JavaScript, and they
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allow you to use reliable and effective
software design patterns from the start.
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A common use case for a JavaScript
framework is to build single page web
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applications that run in the browser.
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So let's talk about some frameworks and
libraries you may have heard about or
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might come across in your work, or
while talking with fellow developers.
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The three big ones are React,
Vue, and Angular.
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React developed by Facebook is one of
the most popular JavaScript libraries.
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React makes building and maintaining
the user interface of your application
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faster and easier by breaking it up
into smaller reusable components.
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React started out as a UI library for
the web browser.
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But the patterns and tools it provides
are so useful that it's been extended to
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mobile development with
the React Native framework.
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And Vue.js is another popular framework
that shares many similarities with React.
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Except that Vue offers more tools out of
the box, it's smaller in file size and
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a little bit easier to pick up.
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Vue also makes it easier
to create your entire UI or
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just build an enhance only small
parts of your project's UI.
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Now Angular on the other hand, is
a full-fledged JavaScript framework, with
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more functionality than most JavaScript
frameworks and libraries out there.
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Angular, maintained by Google,
is referred to as a complete solution.
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Because it comes with all the tools
necessary to build complex, single page,
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web apps without dependency on
any other frameworks or plug-ins.
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React, Vue, and Angular are traditionally
client side frameworks and libraries.
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They run in the browser, and
by default, produce DOM as output and
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manipulate the DOM of the rendered page.
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But React, Vue, and Angular also have
their server side counterparts built by
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the open source JavaScript community.
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For example, Next.js is a popular
framework for server rendered React apps.
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Next includes a lot of complex
configuration right out of the box.
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Like routing,
preventing unnecessary code from loading,
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easy deployment to production,
and lots more.
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And Nuxt is a higher level framework for
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creating server side
rendered apps with Vue.
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Nuxt makes it easier to share
code between the client and
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the server, so
you can focus on your applications logic.
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Now to implement server side
rendering in an Angular application,
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developers use the Angular
universal library.
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These server side frameworks,
pre-load your app on a web server and
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send render HTML when
the browser requests it.
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Then you perform the usual DOM
manipulation and updates client side.
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This can result in faster paced loads and
better SEO.
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As you learned, JavaScript frameworks and
libraries provide loads of flexibility to
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developers and
much needed structures to their projects.
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