Elm Alternatives

Elm is described as 'Aims to make web development more pleasant. Elm is a type-safe, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Elm for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Elm alternative is JavaScript, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Elm are Vue.js, Angular, React and Svelte.

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  1. JavaScript icon
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    JavaScript (sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but also used in many non-browser environments.

    60 JavaScript alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • AROS
    • Haiku
     
    • JavaScript is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Android & Mac alternative to Elm.

    • JavaScript is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Elm.

    • JavaScript is Free and Open SourceElm is also Free and Open Source
    • JavaScript is LightweightElm is not according to our users
  2. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    • Vue.js is Free and Open SourceElm is also Free and Open Source
  3. 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
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
     
  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

    Cost / License

    • 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  6. CoffeeScript icon
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    CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all those awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • JavaScript
     
  10. Backbone.js icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  11. 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
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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