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24 alternatives to Effect UI – PoC of a reactive UI framework built with Effect
Hi HN, I'm Mathieu and two days ago I ran into a YouTube video about Effect ("a powerful TypeScript framework that provides a fully-fledged functional effect system with a rich standard library"). This made me so exited that I wanted to build something with it and this is the result! Effect UI - A reactive UI framework completely build with Effect. Reactive properties are SubscriptionRefs which make fine-grained reactivity possible (like in SolidJS, no re-renders like in React). Components are just Effects, which makes dependency injection of themes, clients and stores possible by using…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN! I was super frustrated at apps like tiktok and wechat preventing me from saving or downloading the animated gifs, so I made a little tool to turn a screen recording into a slack-sized emoji. Hope you get some value from this!
Jun 2026 · vorpus.github.io · its alternatives →
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I made this because building UIs in a lexical medium like code is super annoying. I have to pre-render what I’m making in my head, and then jump between the browser and IDE to test. I was inspired by the developer console in chrome and safari since I end up editing css there because it’s ironically more convenient. Hope it’s useful!
2022 · dev.aspect.app · its alternatives →
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UI elements in ready-to-use components for React
2017 · coolsymbol.now · its alternatives →
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Once UI 1.5▲299When I started my career and built my first design system, I was beyond excited. It took a lot of iterations, learning and 6 months of work to launch it internally. In the next job, I did it again, then at the following job, again… And no matter which company I worked for, 80% of the design system was the same. I’ve decided to work full-time on the design system I’ve always wanted, and today I’m launching and open-sourcing it. You can use it to build Next.js apps faster, and I’ve designed it in a way that it’s hard to go wrong with it: you can choose any settings, and you’ll end up with a…
Dec 2025 · once-ui.com · its alternatives →
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Following the Ant Design specification, we developed a React UI library antd (Pronunciation) that contains a set of high quality components and demos for building rich, interactive user interfaces.
2016 · ant.design · its alternatives →
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A data aware UI components library for building realtime maps - reactivemaps/README.md at master · appbaseio/reactivemaps
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build your web application in a snap.
2019 · react-rainbow.io · its alternatives →
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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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Elasticsearch UI components for React 📝
2018 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →
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Looking at websites such as Clerk, I began thinking that design engineers might be some kind of wizards. I wanted to understand how they do it, so I started reverse-engineering their components out of curiosity. One thing led to another, and I ended up building a small library of reusable, animated components based on what I found. The library is built in React and Framer Motion. I’d love to hear your feedback
2025 · reverseui.com · its alternatives →
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Reactive Maps▲218Build awesome maps with reusable UI + data components.
2017 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →
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Modern React UI library 💅👩🎤🍭. Contribute to smooth-code/smooth-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Elemental components for doing animations in React.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A fun way to learn a bad thing. Contribute to cloudstreet-dev/React-is-Awful development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · 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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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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Elementz▲93A beautiful React UI library for easy modern development
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ProppyJS▲92Functional props composition for UI components (React & Vue)
2018 · proppyjs.com · its alternatives →
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Hey Hackers! My name is Alex and I’ve been working on this project for the past 8 months with the support of Figma Creator Fund. I’d love to hear your thoughts from your experience working with designers & component libraries. I started out in design and later got into coding, so I understand both sides really well. I did UX Design for 12 years at startups, at my own studio and at Wix, and then worked as a front-end dev at Wix for 2 more years. I've noticed a common problem: most component libraries work great for devs but not so well for designers. In my experience working with big teams,…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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