Lodash Alternatives

Lodash is described as 'Lo-Dash is a drop-in replacement for Underscore.js that delivers performance improvements, bug fixes, and additional features' and is an website in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Lodash, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, JavaScript, npm and Typescript apps. The best Lodash alternative is jQuery, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Lodash are Underscore.js, Umbrella JS, smaloa and EJS.

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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
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  2. Underscore.js icon
     12 likes

    Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  3. Umbrella JS icon
     11 likes

    Tiny library for DOM manipulation, events and AJAX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. 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
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  5. EJS icon
     4 likes

    What is the "E" for? "Embedded?" Could be. How about "Effective," "Elegant," or just "Easy"? EJS is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Alasql icon
     2 likes

    Alasql.js - is a lightweight client-side in-memory SQL database designed to work in browser and Node.js. It supports SQL and has some of NoSQL functionality. It is efficient for JavaScript arrays and objects manipulation with all power of SQL language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android Tablet
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  7.  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
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  8. Pithos JS icon
     1 like

    All-in-one TypeScript utilities ecosystem — 280+ utilities, schema validation, Result pattern. Zero dependencies, 100% test & mutation coverage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • npm
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  9. ModernDash is a modern and lightweight alternative to utility libraries like Lodash. It provides important functions while encouraging use of native JS where possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10.  Like

    PKIjs is a pure JavaScript library implementing the formats that are used in PKI applications (signing, encryption, certificate requests, OCSP and TSP requests/responses). It is built on WebCrypto (Web Cryptography API) and requires no plug-ins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Eta icon
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    Eta is a lightweight, embedded, pluggable, and super-fast JS template engine. Developed as an alternative to EJS, Eta is more lightweight, faster, and solves several parsing problems (like closing delimiters inside strings, multi-line comments, and left whitespace trimming) with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
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  12. Micro-dash offers a subset of the functionality found in Lodash, with drastically reduced bundle size.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
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