App Frameworks (Desktop, Mobile, Tablet, etc.) Tools

Front-End App Frameworks: [^1]

• (i.e Angular 1.x.x) + Batarang
• (i.e. Angular 2.0.0 +) + angular-cli
• + Aurelia CLI
• React + + React Developer Tools
• + vue-cli &
• Riot

Native Hybrid Mobile WebView (i.e., Browser Engine Driven) Frameworks:

• onsen.io

Native Hybrid Mobile Development Webview (i.e., Browser Engine Driven) Environments/Platforms/Tools:

These solutions typically use , crosswalk, or a custom WebView as a bridge to native APIs.

• [$]
• cocoon.io [free to $]
• [free to $]
• kony [$]
• [$]

Native Desktop WebView (i.e., Browser Engine Driven) App Frameworks:

• NW.js

Native Mobile App Frameworks (Aka JavaScript Native Apps)

• NativeScript
• tabris.js [free to $]
• [$]
• weex

References & demo apps:

• RealWorld example apps [code]
• Frontend Guidelines

Performance:

ADVICE:

[^1] If you are new to front-end/JavaScript application development I’d start with Vue.js. Then I’d work my way to . Then I’d look at Angular 2+, , or Aurelia.

Want something smaller than React, consider . Preact is an attempt to recreate the core value proposition of React (or similar libraries like Mithril) using as little code as possible, with first-class support for ES2015. Currently the library is around 3kb (minified & gzipped).