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24 alternatives to Cylon.js

JavaScript framework for robotics and IoT

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cylon.js launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Changelog #177: Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, and IoT with Ron Evans from The Hybrid Group▲59

   Leader of The Hybrid Group and creator of open source robots

   2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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   NotebookJS▲109

   Scientific computation for JavaScript

   2016 · datazar.com · its alternatives →

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   Proto.io▲135

   Fast, fully-interactive, high-fidelity mobile prototypes

   2014 · proto.io · its alternatives →

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   Snabbt.js▲129

   A minimalistic animation library

   2015 · daniel-lundin.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Apache Weex▲127

   A framework for building mobile cross-platform UIs

   2017 · incubator.apache.org · its alternatives →

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   Cachemonet▲89

   Robot-created GIF + music mashups

   2015 · cachemonet.com · its alternatives →

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   Impulse▲84

   Dynamic JS Animations for the Mobile Web

   2014 · impulse.luster.io · its alternatives →

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   AniJS▲87

   UI Interaction Library for Web Designers in Plain English

   2014 · anijs.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Puck.js▲103

   The ground-breaking bluetooth beacon

   2016 · puck-js.com · its alternatives →

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    NW.js▲77

    A new way of writing desktop apps with Web technologies

    2015 · nwjs.io · its alternatives →

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    Will automation in support lead to Cylons?▲55

    Elise Ramsay and Mercer Smith-Looper talk support automation

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Particle▲73

    Prototype, scale, and manage your Internet of Things

    2015 · particle.io · its alternatives →

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    Monkberry▲6

    A JavaScript library for building web user interfaces

    2016 · monkberry.js.org · its alternatives →

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    Popmotion▲11

    A JavaScript motion engine

    2015 · popmotion.io · its alternatives →

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    Eloquent Javascript▲20

    A modern introduction to Javascript

    2014 · eloquentjavascript.net · its alternatives →

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    Helios▲66

    An extensible open-source mobile backend framework

    2014 · globalli.io · its alternatives →

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    Fraym▲67

    A new open-source CMS

    2014 · fraymm.wordpress.com · its alternatives →

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    CellRobot▲71

    Hundreds of modular robots in one

    2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Reactive - 14: Wizards Of The Browser▲55

    Node packages, CSS Wizardry, RxJS Observables & Wombats

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Space Rock, a realtime JavaScript framework▲7

    2015 · space-rock.meteor.com · its alternatives →

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    Next.js▲19

    A small framework for server-rendered universal JS webapps

    2016 · vercel.com · its alternatives →

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    Atlas▲9

    The Agile Anthropomorphic Robot

    2015 · bostondynamics.com · its alternatives →

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    nickel.rs▲5

    Web framework for Mozilla's expressive programming language

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    PUREmodules▲5

    Modular IoT hardware sensor prototypes

    2016 · puremodules.pureengineering.com · its alternatives →

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