Node.js Alternatives

Node.js is described as 'Platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications' and is a very popular app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Node.js for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and JavaScript apps. The best Node.js alternative is Deno, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Node.js are Bun, Perl, vert.x and ASP.NET.

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    Unfancy CoffeeScript. Coco is a CoffeeScript dialect that aims to be more radical and practical.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Enonic XP icon
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    Historically, software platform vendors have created lock-ins for customers that building on their stacks. Open source has provided greater freedom and reduced investments for applications projects. The so-called Platform As A Service (PaaS) offerings from the cloud providers...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Docker
    • Java
     
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    ViUR – the Information System for the Google App Engine™ plattform – is a »sandbox« for designers and developers. With the help of ViUR you can easy build web applications running on Google's infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Solid - A minimalist interpreted language, with a clean object model and a tiny VM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. jiti icon
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    Runtime TypeScript and ESM support for Node.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
     
  6. Hack icon
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    Hack is a programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Ceylon icon
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    Ceylon is a language designed specifically for writing large programs in teams.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Hotspot JVM
     
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    Ceylon is only a programming language, not also an asynchronous io application framework.

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    • Ceylon is Free and Open SourceNode.js is also Free and Open Source
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    Tokio is an open source library providing an asynchronous, event driven platform for building fast, reliable, and lightweight network applications. It leverages Rust's ownership and concurrency model to ensure thread safety. Tokio is a blazing fast, lightweight and reliable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Wyvern is a new programming language designed to help developers be highly productive when writing high-assurance applications. The first major innovation in Wyvern is type-specific languages, a feature that allows programmers to create literals of a given type (e.g.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Pylons Framework is an open source Web application framework written in Python. It makes extensive use of the Web Server Gateway Interface standard to promote reusability and to separate functionality into distinct modules.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Pylons Framework is the most popular Web-based alternative to Node.js.

    • Pylons Framework is Free and Open SourceNode.js is also Free and Open Source
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    DreamSpaceJS/.NET is primarily a JavaScript based solution for client AND server development, much like NodeJS. It's goal is to be an HTML5/JavaScript based alternative to using Flash/Silverlight as development environments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Rebol (historically REBOL) is a cross-platform data exchange language and a multi-paradigm dynamic programming language designed by Carl Sassenrath for network communications and distributed computing. It introduces the concept of dialecting: small, optimized, domain-specific...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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