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Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to FilePond.js – Animated, extendable, vanilla JavaScript file upload library

A JavaScript library that can upload anything you throw at it, optimizes images for faster uploads, and offers a great, accessible, silky smooth user experience.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. FilePond.js – Animated, extendable, vanilla JavaScript file upload library launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Uploads anything you throw at it ☁️

    2018 · pqina.nl · its alternatives →

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    Upload anything, from anywhere.

    2018 · pqina.nl · its alternatives →

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    A JavaScript library providing multiple simultaneous, stable, fault-tolerant and resumable/restartable file uploads via the HTML5 File API. - simple-uploader/Uploader

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    File uploading widget with 20+ plugins, no backend required

    2020 · uppload.js.org · its alternatives →

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    Doka.js▲331

    A JavaScript image editor for your website ✂️

    2018 · pqina.nl · its alternatives →

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    Uppy▲156

    The next open source file uploader for web browsers

    2017 · uppy.io · its alternatives →

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    Uppy 1.0▲194

    Sleek, modular open-source JavaScript file uploader

    2019 · uppy.io · its alternatives →

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    http://instantclick.io/ It seems the internet architecture won't bring us instant websites anytime soon. So here is a hack. I released this JS library last month (today is version 2.0 release, fixing v1.0's rough edges), it makes use of HTML5's pushState and preloading to make a website instant. It works like this: before clicking on a link, you'll hover over it. And there's a delay of 200-300 ms between these two events. InstantClick uses this delay to preload a page, when you click on a link it will display instantly in most case. (You can test on the website.) That's…

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    What do you do when private equity buys your old company and fires the maintainers of the popular open source project you started over a decade ago? You reboot it, and bring along some new friends to do it. Video.js is used by billions of people every month, on sites like Amazon.com, Linkedin, and Dropbox, and yet it wasn’t in great shape. A skeleton crew of maintainers were doing their best with a dated architecture, but it needed more. So Sam from Plyr, Rahim from Vidstack, and Wes and Christain from Media Chrome jumped in to help me rebuild it better, faster, and smaller. It’s in beta…

    Mar 2026 · videojs.org · its alternatives →

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    Grid.js is a lightweight JavaScript table plugin that works on all web browsers and devices. Grid.js is open-source and it helps you create advanced tables in seconds!

    2020 · gridjs.io · its alternatives →

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    :umbrella: Lightweight javascript library for DOM manipulation and events

    2018 · umbrellajs.com · its alternatives →

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    Uppy.io▲300

    Next open source file uploader for web browsers

    2017 · uppy.io · its alternatives →

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    Faster user-land reimplementations for several common builtin native JavaScript functions. - codemix/fast.js

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14RJ

    2015 · responsifyjs.space · its alternatives →

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    A javascript library that lets you add stories EVERYWHERE. - ramonszo/zuck.js

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    faster.js is a Babel plugin that compiles idiomatic Javascript to faster, micro-optimized Javascript. - vzhou842/faster.js

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Classes for javascript that don't suck. Contribute to jneen/pjs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chart.js▲263

    Simple, clean & engaging charts for designers and developers

    2014 · chartjs.org · its alternatives →

  20. 20BJ

    2012 · dfcb.github.com · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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