{"id":28522,"date":"2023-09-20T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T10:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/?p=28522"},"modified":"2023-09-20T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T10:40:03","slug":"javascript-frameworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/javascript-frameworks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beginner\u2019s Guide to JavaScript Frameworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2025, nearly all modern web development companies are using JavaScript frameworks to quickly build robust, fast, and large applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To enter the tech field <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/what-does-a-web-developer-do\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a web developer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you must select and master a frontend framework.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good news: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/introduction-to-javascript\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mastering JavaScript<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> establishes a solid base, making it easy to switch between frameworks with minor adjustments. Yet, the extensive JavaScript ecosystem offers numerous excellent frameworks to pick from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this guide, I\u2019ll present to you the most popular JavaScript frameworks, highlighting their pros and cons, helping you choose the best to jumpstart your career and enter the tech world as a web developer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To skip to a specific framework you might be interested in, use the section below:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"#what-is-a-javascript-framework\">What is a JavaScript framework?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"#best-javascript-frameworks-for-beginners\">The 8 best JavaScript frameworks for beginners<\/a><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"#react\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"#angular\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angular<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"#vuejs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vue.js<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"#nodejs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Node.js<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"#express\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Express<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"#svelte\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Svelte<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"#emberjs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ember.js<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"#nextjs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next.js<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"#getting-started-with-javascript-frameworks\">Getting started with JavaScript frameworks<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"#javascript-framework-faq\">JavaScript framework FAQ<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"#where-to-go-from-here\">Where to go from here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-a-javascript-framework\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. What is a JavaScript framework?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JavaScript alone is enough to build any web application from scratch. However, as the application grows, the amount of complicated code you\u2019d need to write would be tremendous. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/responsiveness-with-a-front-end-framework\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frameworks come to help us<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by providing us with a set of tools, libraries, and infrastructures we can use to create our web applications much more easily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, a framework such as <strong>Vue<\/strong> will provide you with utilities to handle user events (click, hover), routing, data-binding, animations. All things you could do with JavaScript alone, yet wasting a lot of time trying to pull everything together by yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"best-javascript-frameworks-for-beginners\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. The 8 best JavaScript frameworks for beginners<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s now dive deeper into each JavaScript framework, discovering its pros and cons.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"react\"><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/what-is-reactjs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28993\" src=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/react-homepage.png\" alt=\"Excerpt from the React JavaScript framework homepage.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"381\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/react-homepage.png 1200w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/react-homepage-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/react-homepage-1024x325.png 1024w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/react-homepage-768x244.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.stackoverflow.co\/2023\/#section-most-popular-technologies-web-frameworks-and-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2023 Stack Overflow Developer survey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, React still confirms itself as one of the most popular JavaScript technologies to create web interfaces with.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This tool is everywhere, and thanks to its huge community, great support and amazing possibilities for large scale projects, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/react.dev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React has become the industry choice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for web apps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short, React still is the go-to choice to find a job <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/how-to-become-a-frontend-developer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a frontend developer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and it will probably remain so for many years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros of React<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large community to support it<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to its popularity, React has a huge community of supporters. This in turn makes the development experience much better, as you will have a ton of resources, courses, workshops to look for to learn and improve your React skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Huge amount of packages and utilities<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another upside of the tool\u2019s popularity is the large amount of packages and utilities people created around it, allowing you to create virtually any project you can think of.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Top choice to enter the professional industry<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React is the absolute best choice of JavaScript framework to increase your chances to find a job as a professional developer, and to future-proof yourself with an in-demand technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reusable components<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React approaches web interfaces by letting you create reusable components, which you can place across your app to save time and effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEO friendly\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React is one of the best frameworks to let search engines index your web pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons of React<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harder to learn<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to concepts like state management, lifecycle events and JSX, you may find React harder to learn compared to other frameworks like Vue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Documentation<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While this pain point has been greatly improved lately with the framework new docs, React\u2019s documentation has been known to be of poor quality and being not always updated.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No strict conventions<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React doesn\u2019t force you to write code using a specific pattern. Hence, developers will write React code in different ways, leading to potential problems in large scale environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Components can get messy<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since React implements the component logic in the same place where they\u2019re rendered, things can get messy pretty quickly, making components harder to understand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"angular\"><a href=\"https:\/\/angular.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angular<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angular is a JavaScript framework developed to create single-page applications using the MVC model (Model-View-Controller), meaning you will have a logical separation between the presentation part and the logic part.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While this framework is still used by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.stackoverflow.co\/2023\/#section-most-popular-technologies-web-frameworks-and-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19% of professional developers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the releases of React and Vue casted a shadow over it, with new developers preferring to learn React thanks to its widespread use and work possibilities, or Vue for its simplicity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve created a full comparison of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/angular-vs-react-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angular vs React<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for you to learn more about the differences between them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros of Angular<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MVC<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MVC model offers a classic separation between view and logic, exactly as you would find it in HTML and JavaScript, making Angular familiar to new devs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lots of features<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angular provides a ton of features straight out of the box, from routing to state management.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons of Angular<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complex to use<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to its complexity, Angular is more complex to learn compared to its peers React and Vue.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not so widespread anymore<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the release of React and Vue, Angular is not so widespread anymore, with React being a much better choice to find a job as a developer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You must learn TypeScript<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To use Angular, you\u2019re forced to use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/learn-typescript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TypeScript<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which adds a further learning curve for new developers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"vuejs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vuejs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vue.js<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28992\" src=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vue-homepage.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Vue JavaScript framework homepage.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"341\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vue-homepage.png 1200w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vue-homepage-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vue-homepage-1024x291.png 1024w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vue-homepage-768x218.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developed in 2014 by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/evanyou.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Googler Evan You<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Vue.js is an open-source lightweight framework which allows you to create web applications with ease and great performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite Vue.js being significantly smaller than React and Angular, it gained progressive popularity in the last few years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is thanks to its ease of use and great documentation, which make it an amazing choice for beginner developers to jump into the world of JavaScript frameworks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros of Vue<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy to learn<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to its simplicity and its use of HTML templates, Vue has a much more progressive learning curve than Angular and React without requiring you to learn JSX or TypeScript to use.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great documentation\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vue has an amazing, extensive documentation, whose authors keep updating and curing to give developers the best experience possible while using the framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightweight<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a size of just 18kb , Vue is an extremely light framework that will help you create highly performant web applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can be integrated into existing apps\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from being used as a framework to create an app from scratch, Vue can be progressively integrated into an existing web application without any troubles in creating new components.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great for beginner JavaScript developers<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To build their first complex apps using a framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons of Vue<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less plugins and libraries<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compared to its more mature peers Angular and React, Vue offers a significantly smaller number of additional plugins and libraries, which may be limiting to some developers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overly flexible<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vue offers great flexibility for developers to adopt their preferred patterns to write code. This approach can create significant problems since there can be \u201cno best way\u201d of writing Vue code, leading to different parts of the code being written in completely different ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"nodejs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nodejs.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Node.js<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contrary to most other JavaScript frameworks on this list, Node.js is not technically a framework, but a backend environment in which you write JavaScript.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This tool is widely adopted by millions of developers around the world, standing once again as the number one web technology on the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2023 Stack Overflow Developer survey<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, Node.js is loved by thousands of companies, thanks to its robustness, speed and ease of use, with a huge community of developers supporting it, making this framework the best choice for you if you want to jump into the backend side of web development.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros of Node.js<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on JavaScript<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allowing developers to switch between frontend and backend code easily.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Huge community of developers<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a large and vibrant dev community online, learning how to use Node as well as troubleshooting it are simpler.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sought-after<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thousands of companies are always looking for backend developers who can use Node effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast and efficient<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to its optimized JavaScript V8 engine, making it a great choice for large scale applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons of Node.js<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prone to callback hell<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A situation referred to as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geeksforgeeks.org\/what-to-understand-callback-and-callback-hell-in-javascript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201ccallback hell\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can happen in Node, when the way the code is written to carry out tasks makes it confusing and difficult to understand, like a puzzle.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hard to master<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it is incredibly useful and key for any ambitious JavaScript developer who wants to become full-stack, getting a good handle on Node.js can take time. A good mentored <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/best-javascript-bootcamps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JavaScript bootcamp<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or course can really help in this respect.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Single-Threaded<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Node is single threaded by nature, This factor can lead to challenges in handling CPU-intensive tasks and might require additional techniques to manage concurrent operations effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"express\"><a href=\"https:\/\/expressjs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Express<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28994\" src=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/express-homepage.png\" alt=\"Excerpt from the Express.js JavaScript framework homepage.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"370\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/express-homepage.png 1200w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/express-homepage-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/express-homepage-1024x316.png 1024w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/express-homepage-768x237.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Express is a powerful JavaScript framework for Node.js.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides a set of features to build backend APIs like routing, middleware management and request handling. This framework is often the foundation of building backend applications and it\u2019s currently used by thousands of companies worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros of Express<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large community of developers behind it<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As with Node itself, a thriving and dedicated community will make your life easier when learning and applying Express.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great opportunity to find jobs as a backend developer<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having Express in your toolkit will really help increase your employability, opening up <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/backend-developer-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">working as a backend developer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rapid development<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to its great amount of features, Express will help you develop backend applications quickly and efficiently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons of Express<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harder to master<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, becoming fully proficient in Express can take some time and perseverance.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Potential security issues<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many users of Express have reported problems with the security integrity of some applications built using it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"svelte\"><a href=\"https:\/\/svelte.dev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Svelte<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28999\" src=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/svelte-homepage.png\" alt=\"Screenshot from the Svelte homepage.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"415\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/svelte-homepage.png 1200w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/svelte-homepage-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/svelte-homepage-1024x354.png 1024w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/svelte-homepage-768x266.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Svelte is a modern framework used to create web applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike its competitors, Svelte approaches creating interfaces in a unique way, compiling your components into highly optimized JavaScript code, instead of interpreting code during runtime. This results in amazing app performances and small bundle sizes, eliminating the need for a virtual DOM.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros of Svelte<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Efficient performances<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small bundle size<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great learning curve<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is thanks to Svelte&#8217;s easy syntax.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No virtual DOM<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Removing a big overhead of knowledge you will need to gain.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simplicity and readability<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons of Svelte<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Limited adoption<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite its many pros, Svelte is still an emerging technology, with limited job postings and a community dedicated to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"emberjs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emberjs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ember.js<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Ember has never found true, large-scale success like other frameworks, I still mention it here, as many high profile companies like Netflix, Twitch and Linkedin are using it as part of their platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros of Ember.js<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great documentation<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reinforces structure<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meaning all Ember apps will have the same structure, making it easy for devs to jump between projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Built-in CLI<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used to debug your projects, install dependencies and set up new projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons of Ember.js<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5>Steep learning curve:<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">compared to tools like React or Vue.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Not so popular:<\/h5>\n<p>C<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ompared to its competitors, Ember suffers in popularity and, consequently, you will find less job opportunities for this framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Highly opinionated<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ember enforces a \u201cbest way\u201d of using the framework, which you will need to learn and come to terms with if you want to use the tool.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"nextjs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nextjs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next.js<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28995\" src=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/next-homepage.png\" alt=\"Excerpt from the Next.js JavaScript framework homepage.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"243\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/next-homepage.png 1200w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/next-homepage-300x61.png 300w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/next-homepage-1024x207.png 1024w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/next-homepage-768x156.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next.js is a modern JavaScript framework built on top of React. This tool extends modern React features, and adds new ones to create highly-performant applications, like server-side-rendering and automatic static optimization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next has found great popularity in recent years, and I see it progressively becoming a new <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">standard for React developers to create their apps. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many companies are also adopting Next as the tools support better SEO, faster development and performance optimizations are hard to ignore for large organizations, making Next.js a great choice for existing React developers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros of Next.js<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great for SEO<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to its capability for server-side-rendering, building in Next scores well with search engine crawlers, boosting your pages on Google.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build hybrid apps<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allows devs to create static apps that behave like dynamic ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great for job hunting<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More and more companies are turning to Next for their React projects, making it a very attractive JavaScript framework for job hunters.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build React apps faster:<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is thanks to all the features Next offers<\/span><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large community surrounding the project<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next has a thriving community of devs around it, with multiple resources you can use to build amazing apps for your portfolio.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons of Next.js<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will need to learn how to create React apps using Next.js<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thought you could avoid having to learn React first? Not quite.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No built-in state management<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next.js lacks a pre-built system for handling changing data, which is called state management. As a result devs must choose and implement their own method, which can be more complex but allows customization to suit specific project needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28989\" src=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/learn-vanilla-javascript-before-using-frameworks.jpeg\" alt=\"A developer sits in a wheelchair coding on his laptop in his home office.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"528\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/learn-vanilla-javascript-before-using-frameworks.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/learn-vanilla-javascript-before-using-frameworks-300x132.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/learn-vanilla-javascript-before-using-frameworks-1024x451.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/learn-vanilla-javascript-before-using-frameworks-768x338.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"getting-started-with-javascript-frameworks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Getting started with JavaScript frameworks<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people who want to learn a JavaScript framework make the error of jumping straight into one, without making sure to have a rock-solid JavaScript foundation first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to gain the ability to master any framework, first you need to become really good at JavaScript. In the end, these frameworks are just additions to the language itself. New technologies come and go constantly, and it\u2019s only with a great foundation that you will be able to tackle any new tool with ease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need a course that will make you great at JavaScript as well as several of its frameworks, you can enroll in our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/courses\/become-a-web-developer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full-Stack Web Development Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where you&#8217;ll be able to build the ideal knowledge from start to finish to be able to create amazing web applications, and finally become a professional web developer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"javascript-framework-faq\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. JavaScript framework FAQ<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the JavaScript most famous frameworks and libraries?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, the most famous JavaScript frameworks are React, Node, and jQuery.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do people still use jQuery?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, jQuery is still used on millions of websites thanks to its popularity then it was released in 2006, making it the most popular JavaScript library in use in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where-to-go-from-here\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5. Where to go from here?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this article you\u2019ve learned about the different JavaScript frameworks, and the role they play in the modern web development scene. Now, you\u2019re ready to pick the best choice for you and start developing your first project using a framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re unsure about how to master JavaScript and need more guidance in picking a framework, we can do that for you. With their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/courses\/become-a-web-developer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full-Stack Web Development Program<\/span><\/a>,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> CareerFoundry teach you JavaScript inside-out, as well as several of its frameworks, jumpstarting your tech career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A solid knowledge of the basics of JavaScript as well as how to use frameworks will mean you&#8217;ll be ready to tackle any frontend framework that will arise in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about JavaScript and coding in general, check out these articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/web-development\/how-long-does-it-take-to-learn-javascript\/\">How Long Does It Take To Learn JavaScript? 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