Elm aims to make web development more pleasant. Elm is a type-safe, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
React Alternatives
React is described as 'A JavaScript library for building user interfaces' and is a popular javascript framework in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to React for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Mac apps. The best React alternative is Vue.js, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like React are Qt, Flutter, Angular and Astro Web Framework.
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39 Elm alternatives
Building on top of the Web Components standards, Lit adds just what you need to be happy and productive: reactivity, declarative templates and a handful of thoughtful features to reduce boilerplate and make your job easier.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
Riot lets you build user interfaces with custom tags using simple and enjoyable syntax. It uses a virtual DOM similar to React but faster. Riot is very tiny compared to industry standards. We think there is a clear need for another UI library.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
Hono - means flame 🔥 in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.
Blitz picks up where Next.js leaves off, providing battle-tested libraries and conventions for shipping and scaling world wide applications.
Mithril is a modern client-side Javascript framework for building Single Page Applications. It's small (< 8kb gzip), fast and provides routing and XHR utilities out of the box.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
Aurelia is a JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.
A modular next gen framework built with ES6 and Web components. Includes routing, data-binding, event handling and animations.
16 HTMX alternativeshtmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- HTML
72 KnockoutJS alternativesKnockout 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
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Ractive.js is a template-driven UI library that transforms your templates, styles and logic into blueprints for highly interactive apps. Ractive.js works for you, not the other way around. You do not need to learn new terminologies, concepts, and methodologies.
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HTMX is a lightweight alternative for those developers inclined to small tech stacks. It is a great companion for django and rails templates.