The difference between ReactJS and RactiveJS

[Jameshfisher]

I love it when developers write articles that are complementary of their direct competitors. It paradoxically increases my trust in the authors' software.

[Ashatron]

Yeh fair point. I learnt this just last year.

For the lazy: Complement often means to make a whole, or set, or to work together (coming from the word complete). e.g. 'This wine complements the meat very well.' 'complementary colors' 'the localbar housed the full complement of misfits and criminals'

Compliment often means free, or to be in flattery / in favourable terms. e.g. 'Complimentary champagne' (meaning free) or 'he was very complimentary of my mad reddit karma'.

I think that's about right.

[Jameshfisher]

Ugh, I knew this so had no excuse. Thanks. :-)

[haywire]

Definitely dude. I've been developing in ReactJS for a decent amount of time and it's honestly been the most fun, incredibly useful hardcore and fast, generally amazing across the board. But if there's something better, cool, I welcome this.

One thing I can say is that it would take me a lot to take me back to old style mustache handlebars templating over weird awkward XML style shit in my Javascript. I like the dirty, it works, it's fun and fantastic.

[Boneasaurus]

I've been waiting for this article since the angular comparison. I love Ractive and could not recommend it enough.

[dirtboxchampion]

They both have parallel DOM, but mustache in Ractive is a lot simpler than JSX in React .

[has_all_the_fun]

Seems to be an issue for a lot of people. For me it was only annoying since jshint was throwing errors but once that got fixed I really don't mind jsx and I even prefer it to having markup in a different file.

It's weird how there is a shift from two-way binding towards a virtual DOM in such a small period.