JS web frameworks benchmark – Round 7

This is the 2017 Pre-Christmas edition of the JS web framework benchmark. Almost as usual a few new frameworks appear in this round:

Further the were new major releases for react and angular. All in all there are currently 76 framework variants in this round. A big thanks to all contributors to this round!

What’s the benchmark about?

The benchmark measures the duration for simple operations on a (unrealistic) large table with either 1,000 or 10,000 rows depending on the operation. The measurement is extracted from chrome’s timeline via browser automation and includes the time for rendering.

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Why are results grouped in keyed and non-keyed?

Keyed implementations create an association between the domain data and a dom element by assigning a ‘key’. If data changes the dom element with that key will be updated. This feature might be necessary when integrating with 3rd-party libraries, transitions or when the DOM keeps some state. Non-keyed implementations are free to reuse the existing dom nodes in whatever way they like and thus might be faster, but may cause issues if there’s a dependency on the particular dom nodes.

If you want my opinion I’d only ever choose a framework that supports keyed updates, non-keyed only frameworks seem like a premature optimisation to me, but your requirements might vary.

You can read more about keyed and non-keyed here.

Results

Updates results for all frameworks can be seen in the result table:

Result table

A deeper look at the keyed results

  • Surplus is fastest after vanillajs and it’s really impressively close. Petit-dom, Bobril and ivi follow right behind.
  • React 16 is really an improvement. It pushes react in front of preact and vue.js. Using the “compare with” feature for react yields the following picture:

    Green cells are statistically significant faster (the color indicates the p-value, light green is 10% with darker green for lower p-values) and red ones are slower. For white cells no statistic conclusion can be drawn.
    Angular and react are very close, especially with the no-zone variant. Preact has lost its performance advantage on react 16 and react-lite is far behind. The partial update benchmark uses 10,000 rows in this round, since it was below the 16 msec frame window with 1,000 rows for most frameworks and thus didn’t show much differences between the frameworks in the last round. Vue.js doesn’t seem to like the larger table for that particular benchmark, but is very competitive for the others.

Further links

If you want to run the benchmarks on your machine just follow the README.

17 thoughts on “JS web frameworks benchmark – Round 7

  1. In round 6 you said, “Marionette and, although not as bad, Knockout, perform worse than angular.js and may even justify a migration.”

    In round 7 you said, “React 16 is really an improvement… Angular and react are very close”

    And yet this time around Marionette with DOM API fared better than both React 16 and Angular.

    In the next few weeks we’ll be releasing v4 of Marionette which should be a significant improvement over v3.5. I should hope it is at least worth a mention.

  2. I am happy to see the growth in numbers of measured libraries. As a library developer myself I have used your benchmark to spot bottlenecks and remove them from the code.
    I think you should dedicate a section in your post for memory consumption and startup time – as this is more critical to low-performance machines like tablets, “netbooks” and mobile devices, perhaps even more critical than rendering thousands of items. Those machines today have more internet traffic than desktops.

  3. As mobile development becomes more important it would be nice to see the minified and gzipped file sizes in the chart.

  4. I have weird issue if I select following 4 in filter, vue gets in front with different value than when looking at the big table
    bobril-v8.0.1-keyed vue-v2.5.3-keyed angular-v5.0.0-keyed react-v16.1.0-keyed angular-v1.6.3-keyed

  5. @Howard marionette-v3.5.1-keyed uses jQuery as a renderer and DOM manipulator. It’s not quick, but day-to-day it’s fine for most cases.

  6. @Jack: the slowdown geometric mean is always calculated against the currently selected frameworks. Unless you have the fastest frameworks in all tests (vanilla, surplus, pico-dom) you’ll get different values. The relative order should be the same in any case.
    So I think that’s ok.

  7. Never thought HyperHTML had such a low performance, and Vue was left behind react and angular so much.

  8. It would be amazing to have a performance comparison at the start of 2018 and compare it at the end of the year to see what’s improved :D

  9. I really like looking it at the benchmarks you do.

    Any chance Aurelia could be included again, surely it’s popular enough to get a mention

  10. > Never thought HyperHTML had such a low performance

    that’s because the table is **wrong** and put hyperHTML in the non keyed section which is a non sense: hyperHTML benchmark is the equivalent of the keyed one.

    The updated table has hyperHTML in the middle of the keyed result, faster than all most famous libraries.

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