Free DHTMLX Alternatives

The best free alternative to DHTMLX is jQuery, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to DHTMLX and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to DHTMLX are Mermaid, Schedule Maker Pro, Zepto.js and Dojo Toolkit.

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  1. jQuery icon
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    jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
     
  2. Mermaid icon
     32 likes

    Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code? This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating flowcharts, Gantt charts and sequence diagrams from text via JavaScript.

    28 Mermaid alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
  3. Schedule Maker Pro is a tool for creating custom schedules. This free, browser-based tool lets you plan your week with ease, offering tabs for different activities and no downloads required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Zepto.js icon
     16 likes

    Zepto is a minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers with a largely jQuery-compatible API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Dojo Toolkit icon
     11 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Umbrella JS icon
     11 likes

    Tiny library for DOM manipulation, events and AJAX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Prototype JS icon
     6 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Enact icon
     4 likes

    Enact is an app development framework built atop React that’s easy to use, performant and customizable.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • React
     
  9. smaloa icon
     1 like

    smaloa is an easy yet powerful javascript library mainly used for DOM processing, visual effects and project structuring. Easy to learn and hard to master.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. qooxdoo icon
     1 like

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11.  1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12.  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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