jQuery Alternatives

Apps similar to jQuery include Zepto.js, which is free and open source. Other options are Dojo Toolkit, Bliss JS, Prototype JS and DOMtastic. You're spoiled for choice with Software Frameworks like jQuery: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Durandal icon
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    Durandal is a cross-device, cross-platform client framework written in JavaScript and designed to make Single Page Applications (SPAs) easy to create and maintain.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. MontageJS icon
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    MontageJS is a modern, full stack HTML5 framework designed to create single-page applications—fast! MontageJS uses time-tested design patterns and software principles, allowing you to easily create a modular architecture for your projects and help deliver a high-quality user...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. 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
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    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

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    • Online
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  5. total.js icon
     9 likes

    Free web application framework for building Web sites and Web applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  6. Wink Toolkit is a lightweight JavaScript toolkit which will help you build great mobile web apps. It is designed and developed to meet the specific constraints of the mobile environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. Flight icon
     1 like

    A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework for assigning behavior to DOM nodes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    Matador is a clean, organized framework for Node.js architected to suit MVC enthusiasts. It gives you a well-defined development environment with flexible routing, easy controller mappings, and basic request filtering.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9.  1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Enact icon
     4 likes

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

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    • Self-Hosted
    • React
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  11. X is a collection of loosely-bound, cross-browser, Javascript functions and objects. It is intended to be a resource from which you pick and choose - you do not have to include the entire library in your application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  12. Mojito icon
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    Mojito - A JavaScript MVC application framework that runs in either a Node.js or browser environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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