Alpine.js vs. CSS vs. XAML vs. jQuery Comparison Chart

Alpine is a rugged, minimal tool for composing behavior directly in your markup. Think of it like jQuery for the modern web. Plop in a script tag and get going. Declare a new Alpine component and its data for a block of HTML. Dynamically set HTML attributes on an element. Prevent a block of HTML from being initialized by Alpine. Hide a block of HTML until after Alpine is finished initializing its contents. Reference elements directly by their specified keys using the magic property. Execute a script each time one of its dependencies change. Run code when an element is initialized by Alpine.

XAML is a declarative markup language. As applied to the .NET Core programming model, XAML simplifies creating a UI for a .NET Core app. You can create visible UI elements in the declarative XAML markup, and then separate the UI definition from the run-time logic by using code-behind files that are joined to the markup through partial class definitions. XAML directly represents the instantiation of objects in a specific set of backing types defined in assemblies. This is unlike most other markup languages, which are typically an interpreted language without such a direct tie to a backing type system. XAML enables a workflow where separate parties can work on the UI and the logic of an app, using potentially different tools. When represented as text, XAML files are XML files that generally have the .xaml extension. The files can be encoded by any XML encoding, but encoding as UTF-8 is typical.