Have you ever wondered how developers fabricate business solutions, enhancing users’ productivity, converting visitors to customers, and driving revenues for their enterprise? Developing or adopting an existing front-end application framework can help companies to fulfill their business goals.
In this article, I’ll describe the top front-end frameworks in 2022, including their popularity, brief descriptions of their features, and their advantages. It is always important to align with the latest design and technology trends. So, if you want the application you’re creating to look attractive and behave more responsively, you are in the right place to explore some of the top front-end frameworks.
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Why Is Front-end Development Important?
An application’s front-end, or user interface, is an organization’s first opportunity to make a good impression on new and existing users. So, before we assess today’s top front-end frameworks, let’s first consider why creating an exemplary user interface is necessary.
An attractive and engaging user interface optimizes visitors’ conversion rates.
Seamless navigation improves customer-satisfaction rates and reduces the support team’s workload.
Good user interfaces enhance users’ productivity and increase an organization’s revenues.
A consistent, simple design is key to adding potential customers to your user base.
Your user interface helps establish your brand online.
Your Web site describes your vision and maintains your reputation on digital platforms.
Your Web site enables you to reach out to your target audience and retain current stakeholders.
Trending Front-End Frameworks
Let’s look at some of the front-end frameworks that are trending in 2022 in some detail. Figure 1 shows the relative popularity of some front-end frameworks.Figure 1—Frameworks’ percentage of the marketplace
Currently, React JS is leading the global charts for the top front-end framework and offers high-end features for building responsive application user interfaces. This framework is a part of the JavaScript family and is available under an open-source license. Users can quickly download this framework from an online repository, for free, and install and use it for software projects. React JS is the first choice of 40.14% of software engineers around the globe, and most companies are choosing it for their applications.
Developers can leverage React JS to create declarative, component-based, reusable code for app development. Using React JS ensures that UI changes occur simultaneously with updates to databases and stateful Web pages. Also, it helps in effortlessly debugging code and making development more predictable. By using React JS, you can ensure a rich user interface that is capable of managing different states and ensuring smooth navigation across Web pages.
Advantages of React JS for Front-End Development
A virtual Document Object Model (DOM) provides a seamless experience to users.
Its components are SEO-friendly, improving search-engine optimization and enhancing a Web site’s rankings across search engines.
You can use a single codebase multiple times in creating Web and mobile apps.
Write custom components using React JS.
Documentation is available on the Internet, making React JS easy to learn and implement.
Angular
Angular is a JavaScript front-end framework that enables developers to build feature-rich application interfaces quickly. The primary aim of using Angular is to extend HTML functionality by defining dynamic views, producing an expressive, scalable, and secure application-development environment. You can craft platform-independent applications, enabling users to run them on mobile, desktop computers, and the Web.
Plus, you can rely on its Model-view-viewmodel (MVVM) architecture to maintain high performance on various Web platforms and support server-side rendering. Angular also supports organizations in handling extensive data demand through its Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) and push model. You can also access several Angular development tools that provide built-in modules for correcting syntax, debugging code, and testing code in different ecosystems. This tools help you to focus on creating highly engaging business solutions.
In recent years, there has been a fall in Angular’s usage and popularity, as shown in Figure 2, but it is now recovering its position in the marketplace and should become a top front-end technology in 2022.
Its two-way data binding reduces development effort and project time by eliminating the task of maintaining synchronization between View and Model.
Vue
Vue is also a well-regarded JavaScript front-end framework. Teams can freely access and use this open-source tool, which is also based on the MVVM architecture and provides independent views for logic and the graphical application layer. Moreover, this framework is built on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fundamentals, enabling you to easily achieve plenty of gradient effects and animations. Plus, it includes user-interface plugins.
Vue automatically executes optimizations that make apps more reactive. By using Vue for your software projects, you can benefit from directives, which efficiently define page structure and core Web content.
Since 2016, Vue.js has been gaining in popularity among industry experts and has now made a name for itself among the top front-end frameworks, as Figure 3 shows. On Stack overflow, up to 1.5% of the questions are about Vue.js development.
Its built-in modules and components are based on HTML, CSS, and JS, helping developers to build applications quickly.
Vue.js offers dedicated library support for handling HTTP requests and UI control manipulation.
With a package size of just 21 kilobytes, it promises lightweight, yet fast software.
Its easy learning curve helps developers to craft complex apps in a short period.
You can use Vue.js for your current applications, improving their functionality, performance, and scalability.
Ember
Ember.js could be a suitable choice for fabricating easy-to-navigate, cross platform-compatible user interfaces. Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, Heroku, and many other large organizations have adopted Ember as part of their technology stack. Ember has a built-in development ecosystem, providing a command-line interface for adding necessary components. Plus, it offers quick rebuilds and automated code reloads. Ember provides a top-notch router facility for managing dynamic URLs simultaneously with query parameters and asynchronous data flow. You can utilize the Ember Data library, which enables applications to link themselves with multiple data sources and retrieve data from all of them at once.
In recent years, large-scale enterprises have been using Ember.js, so there are only a few Web sites on which you can experience it, as Figure 4 shows. However, using Ember would boost and accelerate your business growth.
Ember.js provides a well-structured architecture and produces clean, clear code for large projects.
It offers server-side rendering, which delivers a high-performance user experience.
You can effortlessly find documentation for embedding every vital element.
Ember’s command-line interface (CLI) aids interactions with operating systems, supporting the addition of advanced application features.
This framework covers edge-to-edge front-end requirements, from managing pipelines to configuring services.
Svelte
Svelte is a modern front-end framework, functioning in quite a different way from React and Vue. It eliminates the need for a virtual DOM by directly updating the application’s state. Plus, running the codebase doesn't require a browser and all functions can execute while compiling. You might prefer using Svelte for developing software solutions for low-power gadgets that have highly responsive pages. Svelte applications utilize fewer computation resources, allowing users to access them over low-bandwidth connections. You can quickly start implementing applications in Svelte if you have a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS development because it comprehends all three capabilities. To begin working with Svelte, the basic requirement is having Node JS on your system.
Svelte is a young front-end framework and requires some fixes. Nevertheless, as shown in Figure 5, more than 4,000 Web sites are already using it, and up to 1,000 Web sites are adding it to their stack daily.
Svelte requires less code and configuration for an application.
Frequent updates align with current and upcoming front-end development trends.
This framework works with every major browser and ensures high performance.
Supports implementation of heavy graphics without impacting page-loading times.
Enables the addition and extension of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript functionalities to meet business requirements.
How to Select the Best Front-End Framework for Your Needs
After reviewing the top front-end frameworks in 2022, you might find selecting one for your project difficult. To select your front-end framework, follow these steps:
Step 1: Consider the popularity of the framework and whether leading companies are using it.
Step 2: Analyze its core features and verify that it could help you to accomplish your goals.
Step 3: Check whether it supports the use of applications across multiple devices.
Step 4: Assess the availability of documentation, learning resources, and community support.
Step 5: Examine its code’s reusability, flexibility, and server-side rendering.
For a particular framework, if you can answer all of these questions favorably, you can consider choosing that framework.
Conclusion
Every front-end technology offers useful features and unique components that can make applications look more appealing and be more responsive. You could use any of the frameworks I’ve described in this article to produce attractive Web applications. But, before finalizing your decision, you must go through a framework’s features and implementation and verify that it meets your project requirements. Plus, you should consider choosing the latest, trending, or emerging framework, which might be more likely to provide relevant updates into the future.
Front-end development is a crucial component of every application-development project. Making an application dynamic, appealing, and user friendly should be your priority. So, for any software project, you should always follow fundamental design guidelines and choose only technologies that enable you to easily implement them.
Technical Product Manager at Positiwise Software Pvt. Ltd.
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
A tech-savvy product manager at Positiwise, a front-end development company, Jemin has more than 20 years of experience in implementing the latest technologies and designing top-notch products for clients. He can do everything from market research to feasibility analysis and aligns projects with optimal methodologies. Read More
