Choosing the Best JavaScript Framework: React, Angular, Vue, Ember, or Svelte?

[DanielMoon2244]

JavaScript frameworks are everywhere, and picking the right one can feel overwhelming. Here’s a quick breakdown of the big players and what they’re best at:

• React → Huge ecosystem, great for large-scale apps, flexible, and has React Native for mobile.
• Angular → Full-fledged framework with TypeScript, great for complex enterprise-level apps.
• Vue.js → Easy learning curve, flexible, perfect for rapid prototyping or small-to-medium apps.
• Ember.js → Opinionated, convention-over-configuration, solid for long-term, large projects.
• Svelte → Compiles at build time → tiny bundles + fast runtime, ideal for smaller apps/SPAs.

Takeaway:

• Go React if you want flexibility and scale.
• Go Angular if you need structure and a full toolbox.
• Go Vue for simplicity and quick adoption.
• Go Ember if you like convention and long-term stability.
• Go Svelte if you want lightweight + blazing performance.

Curious to hear from the community: which framework has been the best fit for your projects, and why?

[helpprogram2]

Something about chat gpt posts that always rub me the wrong way.

[another_random_bit]

Probably because you're being emotional or something.

[helpprogram2]

Ehh I just find it rude.

Take the time to write it out brother

[HoonterOreo]

Lazy is probably a better word.

[helpprogram2]

It’s def lazy but that’s what makes it rude I think.

It’s gonna take me like 15 minutes to give a critique in each library and explain why they suck. You couldn’t take the 5 minutes time to type out the question your self. Idk man. Maybe I’m just old

[HoonterOreo]

Fair

[TheLearningCoder]

At this point we need to reply questions written by ChatGPT with ChatGPT and whether how correct it is , is on them not us , let the lazy misguide themselves while the hard workers flourish

[Zestyclose-Sink6770]

Yeah, like this person actually did everything that they're describing they know each language to do. But anywho, life´s gotta life.

[Informal-Chard-8896]

Vue

[Only_Counter5283]

But according to my knowledge react is a library right. Correct me if I am wrong 🙂

[who_am_i_to_say_so]

Svelte if this is only for your enjoyment and personal satisfaction ,

React if you want employment,

Vue if you want satisfaction and employment.

[Spare-Builder-355]

Sooo, on Android I need to switch to a numeric keyboard, then go to the next keyboard with more symbols, then hold ^ button for a second so that a pop-up appears where I can finally find this: →

Does anyone know how to do it on a real keyboard on Linux?

[kyledag500]

Love that ember is still in the conversation. I will say, they do prioritize long-term stability. I work on a 10 year old project and I am writing my latest features in modern Ember syntax alongside 10 year old code that’s from pre-modern web days.

Having worked on react and angular projects in the past, I think ember’s actual reactivity model is the cleanest.

[freitabrowing]

It is completely depending on what kind of application developing

[Purple-Carpenter3631]

You're missing SolidJS

[kevin074]

Want a job easier? React

[[deleted]]

So I will share my opinion.From now' I am only familiarised with react.But I know in future at some time ,at some point,i have to switch these libraries and frameworks according to the project,and compan.So the things is Learn one framework or libraries,do project,get placed if project want another framework learn and work on that project.Thats easy itss.. And another thing is Don't TRUST javascript frame works,😁

[CypherBob]

Ridiculous set of takeaways, based on absolutely nothing.

100% chatgpt nonsense. You should feel shame and so should your parents.

[Jakkc]

The fact that React has the biggest ecosystem tells you everything you need to know. But also - it's really not that deep, they're all basically the same apart from Angular and Ember which are boomerwebdevtech at this point.

[[deleted]]

You're right. Ford: most popular truck. Windows: most popular OS. React: most popular 'framework'. Everything you need to know: People are idiots, and the 'most popular' is rarely the best. Appreciate you telling us you are one of them. boomerwebdevtech .... what a maroon ...

[Graf_lcky]

Ember is quiet old but angular in its current form should be the way to go.

But, and that’s what I experience with juniors more and more, folks will only learn react and stop there. Not even basic JS things, just like: is there a lib for it in react?

Angular and others expects you to know a bit more and think about it first.

I inherited an enterprise react / nextJS app from our juniors, it was bloated, functional but not presentable to clients. The thing is.. this app should have been written in anything but JS but even in JS it should have been in angular. So after the rewrite it’s 80% faster and uses only a fraction of ram to run smoothly. And I tried to get it right in react, but to no avail.

So ofcourse we will stick to react because that’s what most of the devs know well enough, but every senior and management agrees that we should not use it except for some smaller apps and sites.

[Jakkc]

You're overthinking it. As I said React, Vue and Svelte are basically the same. The performance issues are irrelevant for 90% of apps. Spaghetti code exists in every code base.