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, JavaScript and Self-Hosted apps. The best Node.js alternative is Deno, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Node.js are Bun, Perl, Nub and vert.x.

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    A fairly non-abstracted wrapper for Google's V8 JavaScript engine. It's similar to NodeJS, but allows integrating the .net/mono framework into the JavaScript global environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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
     
  3. 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...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Docker
    • Java
     
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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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. ViUR.is icon
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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.

    27 ViUR.is alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    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
     
  7. jiti icon
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    Runtime TypeScript and ESM support for Node.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
     
  8. 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.

    • 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 (MIT)

    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
     
  11. 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
     
  12. Ant JS icon
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    Ant is a lightweight, high-performance JavaScript runtime built from scratch. It runs real npm packages, starts instantly and ships as a portable 9 MB binary.

    8 Ant JS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
     
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