Fulcro Comparison Sheet

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1	Feature/Attribute	Why Important?	Weight (Importance to you)	Framework
2				Fulcro	(weighted score)	Reagent	(weighted score)	Redux	(weighted score)	Angular	(weighted score)	Rum	(weighted score)

3	Uses a true functional programming langauge	FP brings a number of benefits to development, including better local reasoning, easier testability, state history, better support for server-side concurrency.	10	10	100	10	100		0		0	10	100
4	Easy to Hire Developers	Do you think you can find sufficient staff? While clj/cljs are easy to learn, there are fewer people that already know them.	2	3	6		0		0		0		0
5	Eliminates sources of complexity like Controllers, library event systems (signals), etc.	These artifacts bring a lot of incidental complexity to a program. Events/signals are hard to trace/debug, and lead to all sorts of head scratching.	5	10	50		0		0		0		0
6	Reuses Patterns People Know. Is fast to get started with.	Sometimes your need to get going fast trumps your need for cleaner code. Fulcro might mean you have to learn clj, cljs, AND new ways of building apps.	3	5	15		0		0		0		0
7	One Language on Client and Server	Using clj/cljs means that everything has one basic form: EDN. A data notation that is concise, transmittable. Also maximizes code reuse since you can write functions once and use them in both.	5	10	50		0		0		0		0
8	Longevity	Web frameworks evolve rather rapidly, but you'd rather not have the one you're building with disappear. Most things that make it to commercial use have a decent number of people with vested interest in keeping it going, but anything edgy is more risky. Then again, support for those that chose Angular 1 a few years ago anyone?	5	7	35		0		0		0		0
9	Eliminates Chattiness/Need for REST (Demand driven architecture)	REST is a chatty API with poor data type support. Fulcro uses EDN, sends concise queries over the wire, and gives the benefits explained in GraphQL and Falcor.	5	10	50		0		0		0		0
10	Enables Support VCR Viewer	Often the most difficult thing to do when bugs happen in the field is figure out what went wrong. Fulcro can be configured to allow users to send a bug report that includes the history of their UI, which can be replayed (with timestamps) by the developer and even debugged against!	5	10	50		0		0		0		0
11	Includes Build Tools for minification, etc.	One project file configures compilation, minification, deployment artifact creation, etc. No messing with browserify.	5	10	50		0		0		0		0
12	Server-Side Rendering	Supports rendering the UI on the server for things like SEO and fast-looking initial page loads.	5	10	50		0		0		0		0
13	Good for Rapid frame-based Animation (e.g. graphical games)	If you're writing a graphics game, then you mainly want some kind of rendering loop on a canvas.	0	5	0		0		0		0		0
14	Code Splitting	Load parts of your program dynamically at runtime	5	10	50		0		0		0		0
15	Bandwagon (easy sell to co-workers/management)	If you have existing staff that is scared of the cutting edge, then it might be difficult to get buy-in. If a developer's heart isn't in it, then you will probably fail.	2	1	2		0		0		0		0
16	UI Easy to Visually Regression Test	With pure functional rendering, you can create devcards that show each possible state of a UI. Scripting screen shots can then be used to "test" if things like CSS changes break things!	4	10	40		0		0		0		0
17	Has Good Tool Support	Things like React Tools for Chrome, devtools (cljs), IDEs, etc.	6	7	42		0		0		0		0
18	Hot Code Reload WITH reliable state persistence.	This is a fairly common feature these days, but with pure functional rendering it means you don't have to navigate back to where you were after a hot reload.	7	10	70		0		0		0		0
19	Good Testing Story	Does it easily support: CI, Unit testing, Integration Testing, Property-based tests with a very limited need to write UI scripts against a live browser?	6	10	60		0		0		0		0
20	Queries from UI are Datomic Graph Queries	Allows very easy server-side querying when using a Datomic Database.	0	10	0		0		0		0		0
21	Generates and can Use third-party things	React component libraries, JVM libraries, plain JS libraries, etc. Fulcro runs on the JVM and cljs has a great js interop story; however, the Fulcro model sometimes does not mix well with the model of other libs.	5	7	35		0		0		0		0
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