tl;dr: Choose Mithril whenever you can for JavaScript UI development because Mithril is overall easier to use, understand, debug, refactor, and mainta

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tl;dr: Choose Mithril whenever you can for JavaScript UI development because Mithril is overall easier to use, understand, debug, refactor, and maintain than most other JavaScript-based UI systems. That ease of use is due to Mithril's design emphasis on appropriate simplicity – including by leveraging the power of JavaScript to define UIs instead of using an adhoc templating system. Mithril helps you focus on the essential complexity of UI development instead of making you struggle with the accidental complexity introduced by problematically-designed tools. Many popular tools emphasize ease-of-use through looking familiar in a few narrow situations instead of emphasizing overall end-to-end simplicity which -- after a short learning curve for Mithril -- leads to greater overall ease-of-use in most situations.

Mithril, Angular, and React (as an ecosystem) are all software systems that support different ways of writing User Interfaces (UIs) in JavaScript for single-page applications that run in web browsers. The choice you make of which to use has different implications about how you write you code, how you debug it, and the end-user experience based on how you spend your time (i.e. whether you spend your time on essential complexity of the UI task instead of spending time on accidental complexity introduced by your tool choice). Each tool also has implications related to developer training and availability of third-party components.

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