JavaFX

JavaFX came into the picture in 2007 as a replacement for Swing as the primary GUI toolkit for Java. Swing was based on the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT), which was developed in the early 1990s. AWT was a good toolkit for its time, but it was starting to show its age. It was slow, difficult to use, and did not support many modern features, such as CSS styling and animations.

Features

• provides a modern, lightweight toolkit for JAVA

• supports all of the latest GUI features i.e.CSS styling, animation, media etc.

• Easy to use

• can be used in a variety of applications

What it gives you over React/Angular

1. Rich user interface: JavaFX provides a rich set of user interface components and graphics libraries, allowing for highly customizable and interactive interfaces. React and Angular also have rich UI capabilities, but they are more limited than JavaFX in terms of the range of components and graphics that they support.

2. Performance: JavaFX is a native Java UI toolkit, which means that it runs directly on the user's device. This gives it a performance advantage over React and Angular, which are both web-based frameworks.

3. Cross-platform compatibility: JavaFX applications can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. React and Angular applications can also run on all of these platforms, but they require a web browser to be installed.

What it does not give you over React/Angular

• Community support: React and Angular have much larger communities than JavaFX. This means that there are more resources available for React and Angular developers, such as tutorials, documentation, and third-party libraries.

• Ease of use: React and Angular are generally considered to be easier to learn and use than JavaFX. This is because they are both based on JavaScript, which is a very popular and widely used language. JavaFX, on the other hand, is based on Java, which is a more complex language.