Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to A.DOM – A tiny markup language with reactive components
Hi everyone, After four years, I'm finally open sourcing my little markup language that compiles directly to HTML, and has all the "modern" features built into the core, (reactive components, server side rendering, modules, bundling, etc.). No metaframework required! Feels like I really have something here, I'd love your feedback :)
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A.DOM – A tiny markup language with reactive components launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1AA
Yes, another reactive UI framework for JavaScript. Bear with me, please... :-) I 'invented' the concept for this back in 2011, and it was used (as a proprietary lib) in various startups. Even though many similar open source libs have been released since, and boy have I tried a lot of them, none have been able to capture the elegance and DX of what we had back then. I might be biased though. :-) So I started creating a cleaned-up, modern, TypeScript, open source implementation for the concept about five years ago. After many iterations, working on the project on and off, I'm finally happy…
2025 · aberdeenjs.org · its alternatives →
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(spoiler: its XSLT) I've been working on a little demo for how to avoid copy-pasting header/footer boilerplate on a simple static webpage. My goal is to approximate the experience of Jekyll/Hugo but eliminate the need for a build step before publishing. This demo shows how to get basic templating features with XSL so you could write a blog post which looks like My Article some content hello hello Some properties which set this approach apart from other methods: - no build step (no need to setup Jekyll on the client or configure Github/Gitlab actions) - works on any webserver…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An agnostic, reactive & minimalist (3kb) JavaScript UI library with direct access to native DOM.
2021 · caldom.org · its alternatives →
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display.dev▲183Last week's post from Thariq "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML" went viral in X. He made a good point about HTML being the more expressive and human friendly alternative to markdown files. I completely buy in where he's coming from, I've been asking Claude Code to create me HTML files to better understand what we're planning and building together. What Thariq didn't address was the part of sharing and collaborating on these HTML artifacts (he proposed uploading to S3). While I've been heavy user of HTML artifacts to share quarterly plans, implementation specs, technical guides and…
May 2026 · display.dev · its alternatives →
- 5IM
Hi! I made a React compatibility library for a Virtual DOM library (https://github.com/aidenybai/million). The idea is to have much faster rendering (a compiler optimizes virtual DOM beforehand) while ensuring the same developer experience React provides. This is very, VERY early stage, so be prepared for weird bugs / plugin incompatibility / etc. If you have any suggestions, I'd be more than happy if you replied in a comment with it! You can spin up the demo here >> https://stackblitz.com/github/aidenybai/million-react-compat
2022 · its alternatives →
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DOM to Semantic-Markdown for use with LLMs. Contribute to romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 7SA
2024 · slab-lang.org · its alternatives →
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Full reactivity JS/TS framework. Lightweight replacement of React + MobX + React Router. Very small and fast !! - PxyUp/Revact
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 9UG
Hi all, I'm currently working on my hobby project, and one of the fun constraints I put in was to build using as less dependencies as possible. I chose Go as it has a really good standard library, and all went well for building backend. But for frontend, I was wondering whether I should break the constraint and go for React. I tried options like Web Components, but I really didn't like the ergonomics and I didn't want to use jQuery either. Out of curiosity, I was exploring Go's html/template package to see if I can write UIs in a React-like manner. I found most of the online docs using…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Hi Everyone! My main motivation for making this was that I wanted something as powerful as Svelte or React but I wanted no build steps, no JSON API, and I wanted something as close to vanilla js as much as possible. I'm mainly a backend developer, and I wanted to simply return html with some interactive islands when I need to (whose components get 'hydrated' with by backend language's templates). Some key ideas: • It's centered around light dom web components • Uses a "reactive element", which uses observables for fine-grained reactivity • Rendering is done through lit-html's tagged…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · nx-framework.com · its alternatives →
- 12AD
A simple and fast zero-dependencies-library to transform text-selections into serializable markings.
2015 · bowlingx.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I've been working on this thing for a while. It transpiles Haml into Ruby, and then it streams patches to the browser which update the DOM. There is a memory leak in s.rb, which I'm not really sure how to solve. Seems like objects stay alive for longer than they should because of circular references or something but I'm not sure what's going on to be honest. I think this approach has potential though.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Domscribe▲95Give your AI coding agent eyes on your running frontend
Mar 2026 · domscribe.com · its alternatives →
- 15AJ
with affinity you can make multiple apps (components eventually) and store (ala redux) - while a store can be shared through apps. This started as a case study and as a small reusable code for creating self contained dom elements with functionality - during the time of development, ideas and inspiration came from angular, react and vuejs. suggestions and feedback is mostly welcomed. The interesting challenges were finding ways for these topics: 1. create a component lib using dom and js only, without any 3rd party . 2. producing semantic html in dom . 3. allow template micro syntax (using…
2018 · its alternatives →
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:dog2: Barking up the DOM tree. A modular, progressive, and beautiful Markdown and HTML editor - bevacqua/woofmark
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 17
RE:DOM▲6Tiny turboboosted JavaScript library for user interfaces
2017 · redom.js.org · its alternatives →
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Author here. This is an attempt to simplify frontend development: 1. Standards first: User interfaces should be assembled with HTML, styled with CSS, and enhanced with JavaScript. 2. Less abstractions: UI composition should be easy and require as few idioms and abstractions as possible, both on client and server. 3. Design Systems: Design should be a separate subsystem, easily accessible for developers who care about and understand design. 4. Scalability: Complex UIs should retain simplicity as the application grows. Eager to hear your thoughts!
2025 · nuejs.org · its alternatives →
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Aria is a modern, dynamic scripting language. It is meant to be a "sweet spot" language, easy to pick-up and enjoyable to use. It comes with a familiar C-style syntax, and draws inspiration from a variety of languages. It has a small but usable standard library and strives to be a low-ceremony-get-stuff-done kind of language. It is currently at version 0.9 and I would love feedback as I work towards getting it to 1.0.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Component-based UIs with vanilla ES6 and Custom Elements - felipeccastro/html-component
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 21
Node packages, CSS Wizardry, RxJS Observables & Wombats
2015 · its alternatives →
- 22AJ
I've been building a web UI library for a side project of mine. I thought it might be useful to others, so I'm releasing it as open source. To put it simply, I realized that most of my pain points with React come from its declarative model ui=f(state). So I'm trying something that I'm calling "imperative JSX." Instead of treating JSX as the source of truth for your UI, it essentially becomes a query interface for DOM manipulation. I first had the idea for it a few months ago, and only began writing it in earnest last week, so it's extremely early and nowhere near production-ready. Still, I'd…
2024 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
- 23DP
I built a UI framework named Domphy because I could not learn React although I tried many times. I mean I could not understand React code which is hidden behind multiple layers, especially when some of them use React ecosystem libs. Maybe I am an architect turned developer, so I had no foundation of programming, or I expected something clear and clean. I just think that UI should be simple — HTML and JS are enough and just need some way to make it stateful instead of making it more complicated. My idea: just using JS objects to reflect HTML, and using functions for state. When I need to…
Jun 2026 · its alternatives →
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🚀 A React Framework for building extensible drag and drop page editors - prevwong/craft.js
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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