JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language to support functional, event-driven, and imperative (both prototype-based and object-oriented) programming styles. In Stackoverflow\u2019s developer survey, with 67.7% people opting for it, JS is voted as the most popular language for the 8th year in a row. The major reason for its popularity is the fact that JS is extremely versatile and can be used for both front and backend development as well as for testing websites or applications.
\nThe availability of a number of frameworks makes the process even smoother. A software framework enables the developers to selectively change the software-provided generic functionality by implementing additional user-written code. Written in JavaScript, JS frameworks allow the programmers to manipulate the functions of the web apps and use them as per their convenience.<\/p>\n
While Googling \u2018JavaScript framework\u2019, you\u2019ll be flooded with numerous names, each with their own advantages and limitations. With so many choices for JS frameworks for frontend and backend development, or even testing, it\u2019s difficult to choose the right one for your project.<\/p>\n
You need not worry as we are here with handpicked JS frameworks ideal for a full-stack development and even testing. Without further ado, let\u2019s proceed then.<\/p>\n
1. Angular<\/strong> Advantages of Angular<\/strong><\/p>\n All these benefits perhaps made you understand the reason for the increasing demand of Angular development services<\/a> in the contemporary industry.<\/p>\n Limitations of Angular<\/strong><\/p>\n Popular Web Applications Built with Angular<\/strong><\/p>\n 2. React<\/strong> 71.7% of JS devs currently use React and it has been ranked as the best front end JS framework in the State of JS survey.<\/p>\n Advantages of React<\/strong><\/p>\n Limitations of React Popular Web Applications Built with React<\/strong><\/p>\n Confused which one is better between Angular and React<\/a>? This blog will help you find the answer!<\/p>\n 3. Vue.js Advantages of Vue.js<\/strong><\/p>\n Limitation of Vue.js Popular Web Applications Built with Vue.js<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the reasons behind the wild popularity of JavaScript as a programming language is that it can be used both for front and back-end development. We will discuss a few back-end frameworks in the following sections.<\/p>\n 1. Node.js<\/strong> Now, as we mentioned, Node.js is basically a runtime environment. The framework for this is\u00a0Express.js<\/strong>. This open-source Node.js framework is popular for developing APIs and web applications. Over 71% of developers prefer it as the best JS framework for the backend and recommend businesses to engage Nodejs development services<\/a> without any hesitation.<\/p>\n Advantages of Node.js<\/strong><\/p>\n Limitation of Node.js Popular Web Applications Built with Node.js 2. Next.js Advantages of Next.js<\/strong><\/p>\n Limitations of Next.js<\/strong><\/p>\n Popular Applications Built with Next.js 3. Nuxt.js Advantages of\u00a0Nuxt.js<\/strong><\/p>\n Limitation of Nuxt.js<\/strong><\/p>\n Popular Applications Built with Nuxt.js JS Testing Frameworks 1. Mocha<\/strong> It supports both BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) and TDD (Test Driven Development) environments for JS automated testing. Its simplicity and flexibility of use make it a prominent JS testing framework for the devs.<\/p>\n 2. Jasmine<\/strong> 3. Jest<\/strong> Wrapping Up<\/strong><\/p>\n Before concluding, we just want to mention that every framework has its unique advantages and shortcomings. So, analyze your project requirement before heading to pick the right framework. Other than its efficiency and cost; complexity, community support, compatibility \u2013 all these factors must be taken into account before engaging or offering web application development services<\/a>.<\/p>\n We hope you have got a deeper understanding of the best JS frameworks available at the current time. Good luck with your next project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language to support functional, event-driven, and imperative (both prototype-based and object-oriented) programming styles. In Stackoverflow\u2019s developer survey, with 67.7% people opting for it, JS is voted as the most popular language for the 8th year in a row. The major reason for its popularity is the fact that JS is extremely… Continue reading List of the Best JavaScript Frameworks – 2020 Updated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":11001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[622],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":5773,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11008,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions\/11008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAngular is an open-source typescript based framework by Google, mainly used for developing the front-end of single-page web applications. As per a survey by Wappalyzer, around 3.6 million applications are built with Angular. This is reportedly the highest figure for any front end JS framework.<\/p>\n\n
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\nIt is an open-source JS library (not a full-fledged framework). React has offered a real breakthrough in shaping modern web applications. It has a component-based, declarative, and functional programming style for creating an interactive UI (User Interface) mainly for single-page web apps. It delivers outstanding rendering by using \u201cVirtual DOM\u201d. It renders only the modified components instead of rendering the entire page. Another significant feature of React is its use of simpler JSX (JavaScript XML) syntax instead of JavaScript.<\/p>\n\n
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\nLaunched in 2014, the open-source lightweight JS framework is used for building creative user interface and high performing single page web apps. Vue.js has adopted various features from Angular and React and made some major improvements on those to offer an easy to use and secure framework. For instance, it offers Virtual DOM as found in React and 2-way data binding as found in Angular. Due to its progressive, unrestrictive and simple nature, it easily adapts to the developers\u2019 requirements.\u00a0No wonder that all the leading website development company<\/a> professionals rely on this framework for their projects.<\/p>\n\n
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\nNode.js is a server-side JS runtime environment (often referred to as a framework). Its event-driven architecture is capable of driving asynchronous I\/O (input\/output). This enhances the performance speed of the applications.<\/p>\n\n
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\nThis is an end-to-end backend rendering framework based on React. Unlike Gatsby, which is also based on React, it is not a static site generator and essentially a Server Side Renderer (SSR). Over 34K web applications are developed using Next.js.<\/p>\n\n
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\nThis is a progressive framework based on Vue.js ecosystem. However, it cannot be tagged as a full-fledged backend framework like Express.js. It features various official Vue components and libraries like Vue, Vue server renderer, Vue Router, Vue meta, etc. With Nuxt, the developers can build three types of web apps – Server Side Rendered (SSR) applications, single-page web application (SPA), and pre-rendered static page app.<\/p>\n\n
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\nYet another important facility of JavaScript is that it can be used for testing websites and applications. JS testing frameworks are increasingly gaining popular for end-to-end testing, integration testing and unit testing. Here are some of the advanced JS testing frameworks:<\/p>\n
\nMocha is a feature-rich JavaScript testing framework which runs on Node.js and in the browser. It ensures to make asynchronous testing hassle-free. Mocha tests run serially in a flexible manner and offer accurate reporting.<\/p>\n
\nThis is a BDD or Behaviour Driven Development framework. The scalable testing framework is compatible with various frameworks libraries. No wonder that it received 14.8K stars on Github.<\/p>\n
\nJest takes the simplicity of a JS automated testing to a whole new level. It provides decent cross browser support. Over 60% of developers have picked it as their favourite JS testing framework (source \u2013 the State of JS survey).<\/p>\n