Web-based MooTools Alternatives

There are many alternatives to MooTools as a web app and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Online alternative is DHTMLX. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Zepto.js or Dojo Toolkit. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to MooTools and 14 are available as a web app so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Online alternatives to MooTools are Ext JS, Umbrella JS, Prototype JS and qooxdoo.

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  1. DHTMLX icon
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    DHTMLX is a set of JavaScript UI components for speeding up web app development. It offers ready-made widgets for project management apps, ERP and CRM systems, healthcare, educational, and financial software solutions. DHTMLX supports React, Angular, and Vue.

    26 DHTMLX alternatives

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  2. Ext JS icon
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    Ext JS is a JavaScript library for building interactive web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting. Ext includes interoperability with jQuery and Prototype.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. Zepto.js icon
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    Zepto is a minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers with a largely jQuery-compatible API.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  4. Dojo Toolkit icon
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    Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross-platform, JavaScript/Ajax-based applications and web sites.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  5. Umbrella JS icon
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    Tiny library for DOM manipulation, events and AJAX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Prototype JS icon
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    Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Prototype provides various functions for developing JavaScript applications. The features range from programming shortcuts to major functions for dealing with XMLHttpRequest.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  7. qooxdoo icon
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    qooxdoo is a universal JavaScript framework that enables you to create applications for a wide range of platforms. With its object-oriented programming model you build rich, interactive applications (RIAs), native-like apps for mobile devices, light-weight traditional web...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  8.  1 like

    Want to use Vanilla JS but find native APIs a bit unwieldy? Bliss is for you.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  9.  Like

    MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get things done, fast. It takes good ideas found in Python, Objective-C, etc. and adapts them to the crazy world of JavaScript.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. X is a collection of loosely-bound, cross-browser, Javascript functions and objects. It is intended to be a resource from which you pick and choose - you do not have to include the entire library in your application.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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    AJS is a ultra lightweight JavaScript library that is around 2 years old. It is inspired by MochiKit, but differs by being small and expressive. The current version is only 33 KB (uncompressed!), whereas MochiKit and other libraries such as JQuery, Mootools or Prototype is...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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    JayData is a standards-based, cross-platform JavaScript library and a set of practices to access and manipulate data from various online and offline sources.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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