Node.js Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Node.js for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Deno, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Node.js and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Node.js are Bun, Perl, vert.x and ASP.NET.

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  1. Deno icon

    Deno

     26 likes

    Deno is the open-source JavaScript runtime for the modern web. Built on web standards with zero-config TypeScript, unmatched security, and a complete built-in toolchain.

    6 Deno alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • Visual Studio Code
    • WebAssembly
    • BSD
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  2. Bun icon

    Bun

     21 likes

    Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager – all in one.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
     
  4. Perl icon

    Perl

     142 likes

    Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language with over 22 years of development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
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  5. V

    vert.x

     3 likes

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Vert.x is a polyglot event driven application framework that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.[1][2]

    Similar environments written in other programming languages include Node.js for JavaScript, Twisted for Python, Perl Object Environment for.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. ASP.NET icon

    ASP.NET

     33 likes

    Asp.net is an open source server-side Web application framework designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages, web sites, apps and services with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can also create Web APIs, mobile sites, use real-time technologies like Web Sockets and more!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Luvit icon

    Luvit

     2 likes

    Asynchronous I/O framework for Lua.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • Raspberry Pi
     
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  9. Twisted icon

    Twisted

     5 likes

    Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python and licensed under the MIT License. Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP Multicast, Unix domain sockets, a large number of protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  10. V

    V8cgi

     2 likes

    v8cgi is a server side (FastCGI or Apache module) and client side shell/batch scripting language. It's based on Google's V8 JavaScript implementation. It's available under an Open Source BSD license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. N

    Nashorn

     1 like

    Nashorn is a JavaScript engine for Java Virtual Machine. It allows running scripts from Java code as well as from commandline. Java API and classes are also available from inside scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Java
     
  12. A

    asyncoro

     2 likes

    asyncoro is a Python framework for developing concurrent, distributed programs with asynchronous completions and coroutines. Asynchronous completions implemented in asyncoro are socket I/O operations (non-blocking sockets), database cursors, sleep timers and locking primitives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  13. V

    V8.Net

     1 like

    A fairly non-abstracted wrapper for Google's V8 JavaScript engine. It's similar to NodeJS, but allows integrating the .net/mono framework into the JavaScript global environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  14. C

    Coco

     2 likes

    Unfancy CoffeeScript. Coco is a CoffeeScript dialect that aims to be more radical and practical.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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