Making Sense Out of a Jungle of JavaScript Frameworks Towards a Practitioner-Friendly Comparative Analysis

摘要

The field of Web development is entering the HTML5 and CSS3 era and JavaScript is becoming increasingly influential. A large number of Java- Script frameworks have been recently promoted. Practitioners applying the latest technologies need to choose a suitable JavaScript framework (JSF) in order to abstract the frustrating and complicated coding steps and to provide a crossbrowser compatibility. Apart from benchmark suites and recommendation from experts, there is little research helping practitioners to select the most suitable JSF to a given situation. The few proposals employ software metrics on the JSF, but practitioners are driven by different concerns when choosing a JSF. As an answer to the critical needs, this paper is a call for action. It proposes a research design towards a comparative analysis framework of JSF, which merges researcher needs and practitioner needs.