Backbone.js Alternatives

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 software 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 React, Angular, Svelte and Vite.

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  1. Alpine.js icon

    Alpine.js

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    Alpine.js offers you the reactive and declarative nature of big frameworks like Vue or React at a much lower cost.

    12 Alpine.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    hapi

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    A rich framework for building web applications and services. hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. PLUGCORE icon

    PLUGCORE

     2 likes

    Plugcore is a new Software as a Service (SaaS) Content Management System (CMS) based on JavaScript, HTML, CSS and MongoDB. The target of this CMS is to help people building their websites.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. SocketStream icon

    SocketStream

     1 like

    SocketStream is a fast, modular Node.js web framework dedicated to building realtime single-page apps.

    49 SocketStream alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Spine.js

     1 like

    Build Awesome JavaScript MVC Applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Espresso Framework icon

    Espresso Framework

     1 like

    Scalable Web Framework aimed at Speed and Simplicity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Thorax

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    An opinionated, battle-tested Backbone + Handlebars framework to build large scale web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    DOMtastic

     1 like

    Small & fast DOM and event library for modern browsers. Having the same familiar API as jQuery (but without the extra "weight" of modules like $.ajax, $.animate, and $.Deferred), it works great stand-alone or paired up with e.g. Backbone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Microsoft Web Framework

     1 like

    MWF is a system that allows site authors to consider how best to tell the story of Microsoft products and services with confidence that the modular pieces will support and work together.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Rasti.js icon

    Rasti.js

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    Rasti is a modern MVC library for building user interfaces.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Ligi

     1 like

    Ligi.js is a Javascript micro-library for keeping DOM elements in sync with arrays, and updating only properties that have changed. It is not a full declarative framework, but a simple set of utilities to help with reactivity in pure Javascript.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Atoms.js

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    Enterprise Grade JavaScript Web Components inspired from Flex and Silverlight with Data binding, multiple scopes and ready to use line of business components.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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