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author: marco
categories:
- Comparisons
date: "2014-11-17T15:24:49Z"
title: 'PIcking Your Javascript Mobile Framework: Part 6 - Elimination Round'
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Since the next few steps are going to be pretty expensive time-wise (on my part), it’s **time to remove some of the options** from the table. That should speed up the process, and I don’t think I left any real candidates out.

**First, we are going to eliminate those contenders that have a much faster cousin.** That means all the combinations with RequireJS will be kept, while their Require-less brethren are kicked out. These are marked as “rq” in the elimination table.

**Second, we will remove all those that were characteristically slow to load.** That was only three of them: React with Backbone, Enyo with Backbone, and EmberJS. They are marked with “zz.” I’ll let you guess why.

**Third, we remove all those that have excessive coding length.** That would be Enyo again, Flight, Lavaca, VanillaJS (which was never a real contender, anyway), and Closure. They are marked “vb” for verbose. Notice that adding RequireJS really doesn’t change code length by much.

This leaves us with the following table:

| Name | Mark |
|---|---|
| agilityjs |  |
| ampersand |  |
| angularjs | rq |
| angularjs-perf | rq |
| angularjs_require |  |
| backbone | rq |
| backbone_marionette | rq |
| backbone_marionette_require |  |
| backbone_require |  |
| batman |  |
| canjs | rq |
| canjs_require |  |
| closure | vb |
| durandal |  |
| emberjs | zz |
| enyo_backbone | zz vb |
| epitome |  |
| exoskeleton |  |
| firebase-angular |  |
| flight | vb |
| jquery |  |
| knockback |  |
| knockoutjs | rq |
| knockoutjs_require |  |
| lavaca_require | vb |
| maria |  |
| mithril |  |
| ractive |  |
| rappidjs |  |
| react |  |
| react-backbone | zz |
| sammyjs |  |
| serenadejs |  |
| somajs | rq |
| somajs_require |  |
| spine |  |
| stapes | rq |
| stapes_require |  |
| thorax | rq |
| thorax_lumbar |  |
| troopjs_require |  |
| typescript-angular |  |
| vanillajs | vb |
| vue |  |

And after elimination, the following candidates:

| Name |
|---|
| agilityjs |
| ampersand |
| angularjs_require |
| backbone_marionette_require |
| backbone_require |
| batman |
| canjs_require |
| durandal |
| epitome |
| exoskeleton |
| firebase-angular |
| jquery |
| knockback |
| knockoutjs_require |
| maria |
| mithril |
| ractive |
| rappidjs |
| react |
| sammyjs |
| serenadejs |
| somajs_require |
| spine |
| stapes_require |
| thorax_lumbar |
| troopjs_require |
| typescript-angular |
| vue |