Angular VS Knockout VS Ember VS React VS Mithril (v463)

Revision 463 of this benchmark created on

Description

2014-12-03: Removed broken mercury and ractive update libs all to newest versions except for handlebars

UPD: mithril 0.1.24 UPD: Angular 1.3.4

This is a simple rendering speed test between the most popular libraries/frameworks. I added in Mithril because it's a newcomer with some promise.

Added Mercury...

UPD: ember 1.6.1

Added Knockout Rate Limiting http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/rateLimit-observable.html

UPD: React 0.11.2

Added Reactive.js

Typo: Reactive is Ractive

Preparation HTML

<!-- Jquery -->
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.5/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/knockout/3.2.0/knockout.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/1.3.0/handlebars.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ember.js/1.8.1/ember.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.12.1/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mithril/0.1.26/mithril.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/0.11.3/vue.min.js"></script>

<!-- Angular -->
<div ng-app="ngApp">
  Angular 1.3 (using track by $index):
    <span ng-controller="Ctrl" id="angList"><span ng-repeat="item in data track by $index">{{::item}}</span></span>
</div>

<!-- Knockout -->
<div id="koapp">
  Knockout:
  <span data-bind="foreach: data"><span data-bind="text: $data"></span></span>
</div>

<div id="koappRL">
  Knockout:
  <span data-bind="foreach: data"><span data-bind="text: $data"></span></span>
</div>

<!-- Ember -->

<div id="emapp">
  <script type="text/x-handlebars">
    Ember:
    <span>
      {{#each EMapp.data}}<span>{{this}}</span>{{/each}}
    </span>
  </script>
</div>

<!-- React -->
<div id="react">
  React: <span id="reactMountNode"></span>
</div>


<!-- Mithril -->
<div id="mithrilapp">
  Mithril: <span id="mithrilMountNode"></span>
</div>


<!-- Vuejs -->
<div id="vuejs">
        Vuejs: <span id="vuejsMountNode"><span v-repeat="item: data">{{ item }}</span></span>
</div>


<script>
  var ngApp = angular.module('ngApp',[]);
  ngApp.controller('Ctrl', function ($scope) {
    $scope.data = []; 
  });
  var KOData = ko.observableArray();
  var KOviewmodel = {data: KOData};

  var ENV = {EXTEND_PROTOTYPES: false};

  var ReactData = [];
  var ReactUpdate = null; 
  var ReactComponent = React.createClass({displayName: 'PerfTest',
    getInitialState: function() {
      return { data: ReactData };
    },
    componentDidMount: function() {
      ReactUpdate = this._onData;
    },
    render: function() {
      return (
        React.DOM.span(null, 
          this.state.data.map(function(result) {
            return React.DOM.span(null, result);
          })
          )
        );
    },
    _onData: function() {
      this.setState({ data: ReactData });
    }
  });

  var MithrilData = [];
  var mithapp = {
    controller: function() {
    },
    view: function(ctrl) {
      return m("span", [MithrilData.map(function(datum) { return m('span', datum); })]);
    }
  }



  

  $(document).ready(function() {
    var timeout = 0;
    angular.element(document).ready(function() {
      var ang_scope=$('#angList').scope();

      window.ANGclear = function(){
        ang_scope.data = [];
        
      };
      window.ANGpush = function(data){
        ang_scope.data.push(data);
        if (Date.now() > (timeout + 16)) {          
           window.setTimeout(function() {
                                ang_scope.$digest();
                                //console.log("triggered digest");
                              },0);
           timeout = Date.now();                 
        }   
      };
    });

    ko.applyBindings(KOviewmodel, document.getElementById('koapp'));
    window.KOclear = function (){
      KOData.splice(0, KOData().length);
    };
    window.KOpush = function (data){
      KOData.push(data);
    };


    var KODataRL = ko.observableArray();
    KODataRL.extend({ rateLimit: 0 });
    var KOviewmodelRL = {data: KODataRL};

    ko.applyBindings(KOviewmodelRL, document.getElementById('koappRL'));
    window.KOclearRL = function (){
      KODataRL.splice(0, KOData().length);
    };
    window.KOpushRL = function (data){
      KODataRL.push(data);
    };



    EMapp = Ember.Application.create({
      rootElement: '#emapp'
    });
    EMapp.data = Ember.A();

    window.EMclear = function () {
      EMapp.data.clear();
    };
    window.EMpush = function (data) {
      EMapp.data.pushObject(data);
    };


    var reactComp = ReactComponent();
    React.renderComponent(reactComp, document.getElementById('reactMountNode'));

    window.RClear = function() {
      ReactData.splice(0, ReactData.length);
      ReactUpdate();
    };

    window.RPush = function(data) {
      ReactData.push(data);
      ReactUpdate();
    }

    m.module(document.getElementById("mithrilMountNode"), mithapp);
    window.Mclear = function() {
      MithrilData = [];
    };

    window.Mpush = function(data) {
      MithrilData.push(data);
        if (Date.now() > (timeout + 16)) {          
          m.startComputation();
          m.endComputation();
           timeout = Date.now();                 
        }        

    }


    var vueInstance = new Vue({
     el: '#vuejsMountNode',
     data: {
      data: []
    }
  });

    window.VueClear = function(){
     vueInstance.data = []
   };

   window.VuePush = function(data){
    vueInstance.data.push(data); 
  };


});

</script>

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
Angular
ANGclear();

for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++)
  ANGpush("nitem" + i);
ready
Knockout
KOclear();
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++)
  KOpush("kitem" + i);
ready
React
RClear();

for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++)
  RPush("ritem" + i);
ready
Mithril
Mclear();
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++)
  Mpush("mitem" + i);
ready
vuejs
VueClear();
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++)
  VuePush("vitem" + i);
ready
Ember
EMclear();
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++)
  EMpush("eitem" + i);
ready

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