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24 alternatives to I Made a Progressive JavaScript MVC Framework

:car: Micro Isomorphic MVC. Progressive Enhancement. Content-First. Single-Page Applications (that are also server-side rendered). Predictive Caching. Bring Your Own View Engine. - taunus/taunus

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I Made a Progressive JavaScript MVC Framework launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   My new JavaScript MVC framework▲304

   2014 · lhorie.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Microfronts – Front-end solution for running multiple frameworks as one▲75

   Polyglot Front-End Solution for running multiple frameworks as one - eavichay/microfronts

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   ProType▲157

   The next generation MVC JavaScript framework 🛠️

   2018 · protype.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 →

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   NestJS▲149

   A progressive Node.js framework 🚀

   2018 · nestjs.com · its alternatives →

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   Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs▲224

   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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   Micron.JS▲214

   A [μ] microInteraction library built with CSS and JavaScript

   2018 · webkul.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Remult – a CRUD framework for full-stack TypeScript▲130

   Full-stack CRUD, simplified, with SSOT TypeScript entities - remult/remult

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Carno.js – a Nest-style application framework for Bun▲6

   Performance-first framework object-oriented for Bun - carnojs/carno.js

   Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CalDOM: An agnostic, reactive and minimalist JavaScript UI library▲107

    An agnostic, reactive & minimalist (3kb) JavaScript UI library with direct access to native DOM.

    2021 · caldom.org · its alternatives →

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    Micronaut Framework▲88

    Build modular easily testable microservice & serverless apps

    2019 · micronaut.io · its alternatives →

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    Mastering Modular JavaScript▲94

    📦 Module thinking, principles, design patterns and best practices. - mjavascript/mastering-modular-javascript

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    FastDom – Lightweight replacement of React and MobX▲41

    Full reactivity JS/TS framework. Lightweight replacement of React + MobX + React Router. Very small and fast !! - PxyUp/Revact

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Micro JavaScript framework inspired by finite-state machine▲60

    UI as finite-state machine . Contribute to stepanvanzuriak/Finite development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A next gen front-end framework with lots of editable examples▲57

    LISTEN TO OUR NEW ANTHEM Crack UPSC CSE - GS with World\\

    2016 · nx-framework.com · its alternatives →

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    A JavaScript UI library for imperative JSX▲41

    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 →

17. 17MW
    MVC with ReactJS▲22

    2017 · raulsebastianmihaila.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Vue.js v3.0 "One Piece"▲21

    The progressive JavaScript framework

    2020 · vuejs.org · its alternatives →

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    Vue-Notion – An unofficial Notion renderer▲52

    A fast Vue renderer for Notion pages. Contribute to janniks/vue-notion development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Object-Oriented HTML – Proposal for new powerful features in HTML▲8

    Hey all, I'm a big fan of the HTML-first + Progressive Enhancement approach to UI development! For a background: 1. I like to be able to write HTML by default and progressively add JavaScript (and, in the same way, progressively involve tooling) instead of go ahead of the problem by going the other way around! 2. Also turns out that UIs are more resilient when built on the same principles: - given how browsers process web pages: HTML initially, then JavaScript eventually; with the bulk of the page being best done at the initial phase - and given how, on a more general note, performance is a…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Espresso.js – React Meets Backbone for a Minimal MVC▲41

    Super minimal MVC library. Contribute to akrymski/espresso.js development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Neo.mjs – Webworker-driven UI framework▲54

    Neo.mjs is a self-evolving software organism: a professional end-to-end AI engineering team whose cross-model swarm inhabits live apps via Neural Link, Active Hybrid GraphRAG, DreamService, and self-healing loops. - neo/README.md at dev · neomjs/neo

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight fullstack boilerplate based on VueJS and Node.js▲24

    A lightweight boilerplate for a universal webapp based on koa, mongodb, node, vue, and webpack - yunhan0/koa-vue-fullstack

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I have open-sourced my ReactJs UI kit▲10

    Hello everyone, For the past several months, I have been building multiple React/TailwindCSS components for my projects. I have decided to bundle and document them so that I can share them with the community. The entire UI kit is written in Typescript on top of the class-variance-authority library. Although I am already using these components in production, the project is still in beta since it lacks a full test suite and dark mode. Please feel free to take a look and provide feedback if you have a moment to spare. Thank you!

    2023 · rewind-ui.dev · its alternatives →

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