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24 alternatives to HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications

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

HyperApp is a lightweight JavaScript framework that weighs just 1 kilobyte, designed for developers building web applications. It provides a minimal foundation for creating interactive user interfaces without the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   1 KB JavaScript library for building front end apps▲242

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

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   1 KB JavaScript framework for building front-end applications▲216

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

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   1kb JavaScript library for building front end applications▲187

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

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Hyperapp – 1 KB JavaScript library for building front end apps▲69

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

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   1 KB JavaScript library for building applications▲116

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

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   1 kB JavaScript framework for building front end applications▲12

   1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - Hyperapp V2 by jorgebucaran · Pull Request #726 · hyperapp/hyperapp

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   (1KB) JavaScript library for building fast and feature-rich web apps▲9

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

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Hyperapp▲6

   1kb JavaScript library for building frontend applications.

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9IH
   Introducing Hyperapp 1.0 – 1KB JavaScript library for building web apps▲6

   2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Startup Framework 2.0▲356

    Create a beautiful, responsive website in under an 1 hour

    2017 · designmodo.com · its alternatives →

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    Next.js 13▲323

    Build powerful & dynamic web applications – without limits

    2022 · nextjs.org · its alternatives →

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    Hypertune▲260

    Hey HN! I'm Miraan, the founder at Hypertune, and I'm excited to be posting this on HN. Hypertune lets you make your code configurable to let teammates like PMs and marketers quickly change feature flags, in-app copy, pricing plans, etc. It's like a CMS but instead of only letting you set static content, you can insert arbitrary logic from the UI, including A/B tests and ML "loops". I previously built a landing page optimization tool that let marketers define variants of their headline, CTA, cover image, etc, then used a genetic algorithm to find the best combination of them. They used…

    2025 · hypertune.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native JavaScript functions▲323

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

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    My new JavaScript MVC framework▲304

    2014 · lhorie.github.io · its alternatives →

15. 15IB
    I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs.▲343

    2021 · synergyjs.org · its alternatives →

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    A Lightweight 1.7KB JavaScript Framework▲7

    I have developed a lightweight JavaScript framework that utilizes a single class and occupies only 1.7KB of gziped JavaScript. The framework features a Vue-inspired API and supports functionalities such as if, for, slot, and bind.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HyperDev▲181

    A new rapid prototyping tool from Fog Creek

    2016 · hyperdev.com · its alternatives →

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    Hyperdiv – Reactive, immediate-mode web UI framework for Python▲170

    Hello HN, I'm releasing Hyperdiv (https://hyperdiv.io), a framework for rapidly developing reactive browser UIs in Python, with immediate-mode syntax and using Shoelace (https://shoelace.style) as its built-in component system. This short coding video will give you a good idea of what it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJKfxaqvGE I wrote a brief article about the motivation and approach: https://hyperdiv.io/intro.html Hyperdiv doesn't aim to compete with serious full-stack frameworks. The core aim was to make it easy and fast to…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    htmgo - build simple and scalable systems with golang + htmx▲166

    Hey all, I just wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past month. After years of heavy frameworks, I really like the idea of using htmx, but it’s a little too low level for me and needs a thin layer above it to facilitate things like components, better syntax with complex JS inside of an attribute, etc To try and solve this problem with a very minimal stack (golang + htmx) that I've been really enjoying, I'm building this project to cater to my needs and was thinking it would be useful for other developers.

    2024 · htmgo.dev · its alternatives →

20. 20HH
    Hibiki HTML – New frontend framework – no scaffolding, no Webpack▲232

    Source https://github.com/dashborg/hibiki | Interactive Tutorial https://playground.hibikihtml.com/tutorial/ I love JavaScript, but for many projects -- especially internal tools and prototypes -- setting up a full frontend JavaScript stack (npm, webpack, babel, create-react-app, redux) and all of their configuration files, folders, and scaffolding is overkill. Hibiki HTML incrementally plugs into any backend, using any template language (even static HTML files) with a single script include. It includes a built-in frontend data model, Vue.js-like…

    2022 · playground.hibikihtml.com · its alternatives →

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    Hyperterse▲86

    Hi HN, I’m Samrith, creator of Hyperterse. Today I’m launching Hyperterse 2.0, a schema-first framework for building MCP servers directly on top of your existing production databases. If you're building AI agents in production, you’ve probably run into agents needing access to structured, reliable data but wiring your business logic to MCP tools is tedious. Most teams end up writing fragile glue code. Or worse, giving agents unsafe, overbroad access. There isn’t a clean, principled way to expose just the right data surface to agents. Hyperterse lets you define a schema over your data and…

    Feb 2026 · hyperterse.com · its alternatives →

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    DisplayJS▲210

    A simple JavaScript framework for building ambitious UIs 😊

    2017 · display.js.org · its alternatives →

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    µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies▲161

    I built µJS because I wanted AJAX navigation without the verbosity of HTMX or the overhead of Turbo. It intercepts links and form submissions, fetches pages via AJAX, and swaps fragments of the DOM. Single tag, one call to `mu.init()`. No build step, no dependencies. Key features: patch mode (update multiple fragments in one request), SSE support, DOM morphing via idiomorph, View Transitions, prefetch on hover, polling, and full HTTP verb support on any element. At ~5KB gzipped, it's smaller than HTMX (16KB) and Turbo (25KB), and works with any backend: PHP, Python, Go, Ruby, whatever.…

    Mar 2026 · mujs.org · its alternatives →

24. 24AS
    A small (less than 2 kb) CSS framework▲79

    A beautiful CSS framework in under 2 KiB

    2013 · andhart.github.io · its alternatives →

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