Underscore.js Alternatives

Underscore.js is described as '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' and is an website in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Underscore.js, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, JavaScript, Mac and Windows apps. The best Underscore.js alternative is jQuery, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Underscore.js are mustache, Jinja, Handlebars and Lodash.

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  1. jQuery icon
     233 likes

    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. mustache icon
     4 likes

    Minimal logic-less template engine supporting over 20 languages, enabling separation of logic and view for web, desktop, and static content. Templates are portable, reusable, open-source, suitable for server or client side use, and integrate with various development workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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  3. Jinja icon
     2 likes

    Jinja is a fast, expressive, extensible templating engine. Special placeholders in the template allow writing code similar to Python syntax. Then the template is passed data to render the final document.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  4. Handlebars icon
     12 likes

    Handlebars is a JavaScript template library that is, more or less, based on mustache . Handlebars adds user defined block expressions and helpers to the standard Mustache template syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  5. Lodash icon
     10 likes

    Lo-Dash is a drop-in replacement for Underscore.js that delivers performance improvements, bug fixes, and additional features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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    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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  11. 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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  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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