This is a simple benchmark for several javascript frameworks. The benchmarks creates a large table with randomized entries and measures the time for various operations.

This work is derived from a benchmark that Richard Ayotte published on https://gist.github.com/RichAyotte/a7b8780341d5e75beca7 and adds more framework and more operations. Thanks for the great work.

Thanks to Baptiste Augrain for making the benchmarks more sophisticated and adding frameworks.

Have node.js (>=6.0) installed. If you want to do yourself a favour use nvm for that and install yarn. The benchmark has been tested with node 6.0. You will also need java (>=6, e.g. openjdk-8-jre on ubuntu) for the google closure compiler, currently used in kivi.

• To build the benchmarks for all frameworks:

npm install or yarn

npm run build

The latter calls npm build-prod in each subproject.

• To build a single benchmark for a framework, e.g. aurelia

cd aurelia

npm install or yarn

npm run build-prod

Execute npm start in the main directory to start a http-server for the web pages. Open http://localhost:8080 and choose the directory for the framework you want to test. Most actions will try to measure the duration and print it to the console. Depending on the framework this might be more or less precise. To measure the exact numbers one needs to use e.g. the timeline from the chrome dev tools.

• create rows: Duration for creating 1000 rows after the page loaded.
• replace all rows: Duration for updating all 1000 rows of the table (with 5 warmup iterations).
• partial update: Time to update the text of every 10th row (with 5 warmup iterations).
• select row: Duration to highlight a row in response to a click on the row. (with 5 warmup iterations).
• swap rows: Time to swap 2 rows on a 1K table. (with 5 warmup iterations).
• remove row: Duration to remove a row. (with 5 warmup iterations).
• create many rows: Duration to create 10,000 rows
• append rows to large table: Duration for adding 1000 rows on a table of 10,000 rows.
• clear rows: Duration to clear the table filled with 10.000 rows.
• clear rows a 2nd time: Time to clear the table filled with 10.000 rows. But warmed up with only one iteration.
• ready memory: Memory usage after page load.
• run memory: Memory usage after adding 1000 rows.

For all benchmarks the duration is measured including rendering time. You can read some details on this article. The results of this benchmark is outlined on by blog (round 1, round 2, round 3 and round 4).

The former java test runner has been replaced with a typescript based test runner. The new test runner contains no timer based waits and is thus much faster.

npm start

which starts a web browser

npm run selenium

which runs the seleniums tests

Open http://localhost:8080/webdriver-ts/table.html for the results

A test showing the durations on my machine can be seen here

Single tests can be repeated easily. Just cd webdriver-ts and run the benchmarks and frameworks you want, e.g: npm run selenium -- --framework angular bob --benchmark 01_ 02_ runs the test for all frameworks that contain either angular or bob, which means all angular versions and bobril and all benchmarks whose id contain 01_ or 02_ which means the create rows and replace all rows benchmarks. After that you'll want to update the result table with npm run results