React alternatives

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noah picture noah · Jan 1, 2014 · Viewed 19.3k times · Source

We use an event driven JavaScript MVC framework in our application, but have performance problems with larger data sets. We've implemented many of the same techniques used in React to alleviate our issues (render on intervals, compare data state and only update what changed), but I'm worried we are going down the road of implementing our own, less complete, framework. Before we adopt React for our data heavy UIs, what are the alternatives?

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Steel Brain picture Steel Brain · Feb 18, 2015

Check out RiotJS. It's super-lightweight (just a few kbs) and it's way easier to use.

Riot brings custom tags to all browsers, including IE8. Think React + Polymer but with ejoyable syntax and a small learning curve.

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