Backbone.js AlternativesJavaScript Frameworks and other similar apps like Backbone.js

Backbone.js is described as 'Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful' and is a javascript framework in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Backbone.js, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Backbone.js alternative is Vue.js, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Backbone.js are Angular, React, Svelte and Vite.

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  1. Vue.js icon
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    Vue is a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. It builds on top of standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and provides a declarative and component-based programming model that helps you efficiently develop user interfaces, be it simple or complex.

    40 Vue.js alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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    • Vue.js is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Backbone.js.

    • Vue.js is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Backbone.js.

    • Vue.js is Free and Open SourceBackbone.js is also Free and Open Source
  2. Angular icon
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    Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
     
    • Angular is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Backbone.js.

    • Angular is Free and Open SourceBackbone.js is also Free and Open Source
  3. React icon
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    A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

    60 React alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Online
     
    • React is the most popular Web-based alternative to Backbone.js.

    • React is Free and Open SourceBackbone.js is also Free and Open Source
    • React is CustomizableBackbone.js is not according to our users
  4. Svelte icon
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    Svelte is a component framework that compiles declarative code into efficient JavaScript that updates the DOM with surgical precision. It is similar to React and Vue.js and offers a build process to optimize performance.

    35 Svelte alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Vite icon
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    A frontend tooling solution providing fast hot module replacement and instant server start with native ESM. It offers optimized builds with Rollup support, multi-page and library mode, along with rich features like TypeScript, JSX, and CSS, rounded off by universal plugins and fully typed APIs.

    39 Vite alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  6. Nue icon
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    Nue JS is an exceptionally small (2.3kb minzipped) JavaScript library for building web interfaces. It is the core of the upcoming Nue ecosystem. It’s like Vue.js, React.js, or Svelte but there are no hooks, effects, props, portals, watchers, provides, injects, suspension, or...

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    • Free
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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  7. SolidJS icon
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    Solid is a purely reactive library. It was designed from the ground up with a reactive core. It's influenced by reactive principles developed by previous libraries.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  8. ember.js icon
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    You can write less code with Ember's Handlebars integrated templates that update automatically when the underlying data changes.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • JavaScript
     
  9. KnockoutJS icon
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    Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g.

    Cost / License

    • Free
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    • Mac
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  10. Hono.dev icon
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    Hono - means flame 🔥 in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.

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    • Free
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    • Self-Hosted
    • npm
     
  11. RiotJS icon
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    Riot lets you build user interfaces with custom tags using simple and enjoyable syntax. It uses a virtual DOM similar to React but faster. Riot is very tiny compared to industry standards. We think there is a clear need for another UI library.

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    • Free
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    • Online
     
  12. Polymer icon
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    Polymer is a library that uses the latest web technologies to let you create custom HTML elements. Build anything from a button to a complete application as an encapsulated, reusable element that works across desktop and mobile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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