Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Illustrated.dev
Explains web development through illustration
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Illustrated.dev launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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21st.dev▲1,211I originally built this app to organize and reuse interesting React + Tailwind components I came across on Twitter, inspired by the shadcn/ui approach. Later, a friend started contributing their own components, and it got me thinking—this could grow into something bigger, like an NPM for design engineers to share and use components. Would love to hear your thoughts!
2025 · 21st.dev · 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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Pts is a javascript library for visualization and creative-coding.
2018 · ptsjs.org · its alternatives →
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Layouts.dev▲699A notebook for building interfaces with Tailwind & shadcn/UI
2024 · layouts.dev · its alternatives →
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Learn how to build for the web and see where you stand 🌟
2018 · web.dev · its alternatives →
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Context.dev▲814Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.
Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →
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2016 · omrelli.ug · its alternatives →
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display.dev▲183Last week's post from Thariq "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML" went viral in X. He made a good point about HTML being the more expressive and human friendly alternative to markdown files. I completely buy in where he's coming from, I've been asking Claude Code to create me HTML files to better understand what we're planning and building together. What Thariq didn't address was the part of sharing and collaborating on these HTML artifacts (he proposed uploading to S3). While I've been heavy user of HTML artifacts to share quarterly plans, implementation specs, technical guides and…
May 2026 · display.dev · its alternatives →
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JavaScript Software Development | UI Design | Testing
2019 · digitaljetty.com · its alternatives →
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Matt Mueller's personal website for sharing what I've learned about programming, design, entrepreneurship and life.
2017 · mat.tm · its alternatives →
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Render multiple moving rectangles to compare a number of canvas engines.
2020 · benchmarks.slaylines.io · its alternatives →
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2016 · graphicsjs.org · its alternatives →
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RedwoodJS▲203Hey everyone, I'm the original co-creator of RedwoodJS. (The framework that myself and Tom Preston-Werner, Rob Cameron and David Price built during Covid.) I had tried to build a developer tool startup (Snaplet), and failed. I rejoined the efforts to add RSC to Redwood, but I realized that we needed a much simpler framework that was closely tied to a platform (We chose Cloudflare). We started building RedwoodSDK a year ago and this is the result. An insanely simple stack. I am incredibly proud of this work, please star our repo and let me know if there's anything that doesn't resonate with…
2022 · rwsdk.com · its alternatives →
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I’m building a Unicode reference where each symbol has its own dev-friendly page with all relevant encodings. Example: [https://fontgenerator.design/symbol/almost-equal-to](https://fontgenerator.design/symbol/almost-equal-to) Includes Unicode, HTML, CSS, JS, UTF-8/16 bytes, URL encoding, and usage examples. The same structure is used across thousands of symbols (math, arrows, currency, tech/UI, punctuation). Built because existing references are fragmented. Feedback welcome.
Dec 2025 · fontgenerator.design · its alternatives →
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2016 · skorokithakis.github.io · its alternatives →
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Design and develop astounding animated web applications usin
2015 · packtpub.com · its alternatives →
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Triangulart▲106Graphic editor build in JS to create isometric illustrations
2016 · maxwellito.github.io · its alternatives →
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Click on a component in browser to go to code in your editor
2022 · locatorjs.com · its alternatives →
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We talked about Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript
2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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JavaScript Application Design: A Build First Approach [Bevacqua, Nicolas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. JavaScript Application Design: A Build First Approach
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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