Dojo
Web Development

Almost any search for cutting-edge web development frameworks will return two major players - Angular and React. While these tools have earned their place as the leading technologies today, there is a significant gap between these two offerings. Dojo is designed to fill that gap.

Angular is a large, powerful framework designed to guide the development of extensive enterprise applications. Angular scales well to provide solutions of incredible complexity with consistent design patterns and robust APIs. However, this power comes at the cost of development complexity. The Angular framework is one of the most challenging platforms for building web applications today. Mastering this complexity requires a level of training and commitment that is often justified only by the largest applications.

React takes a radically different approach. Rather than providing a complex, rich, and powerful framework, React focuses on addressing one of the most challenging aspects of web application development - synchronizing application state to the user interface. React does this exceptionally well but leaves many unanswered questions regarding how the business logic and application state should be managed. This situation improves when combined with state management solutions, such as Redux, but these solutions don't often scale well as the application's scope grows. This makes React an ideal candidate for small- to medium-sized enterprise applications.

Dojo fills the gap between the largest applications that Angular is ideal for and the smaller applications that work well with React. Dojo is built around reactive components, called widgets, that are similar to React components. It then layers on a declarative state management system that allows business rules and state tracking to be implemented predictably. The Dojo framework also contains several additional modules that enable internationalization, in-page routing, and testing without reaching for a third-party library. This scalable, batteries included architecture makes Dojo the ideal solution for many enterprise applications.

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