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Kea is a state management library for JavaScript that combines Redux's powerful architecture with MobX's straightforward approach. It helps developers manage application state more intuitively by reducing boilerplate… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Kea – The power of Redux with the simplicity of MobX launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Kestra▲470

   All-in-one automation & orchestration platform

   2024 · kestra.io · its alternatives →

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   Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes▲1,181

   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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   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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   Kea – High-Level Architecture for React, Inferno, Etc.▲8

   2016 · kea.rocks · 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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   HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications▲303

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

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Kexa.io – Open-Source IT Security and Compliance Verification▲81

   Hi HN, We're building Kexa.io (https://github.com/kexa-io/Kexa), an open-source tool developed in France (incubated at Euratech Cyber Campus) to help teams automate the often tedious process of verifying IT security and compliance. Keeping track of configurations across diverse assets (servers, K8s, cloud resources) and ensuring they meet security baselines (like CIS benchmarks, etc.) manually is challenging and error-prone. Our goal with the open-source core is to provide a straightforward way to define checks, scan your assets, and get clear reports on your security…

   2025 · its alternatives →

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   Nion, declarative API data management library built on Redux▲28

   🌵 Declarative API Data Management Library built on top of redux 🌵 - Patreon/nion

   2018 · 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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    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▲216

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

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes▲99

    HyScale is an Application Centric Abstraction Framework over K8s. - hyscale/hyscale

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Redux with a UseState Hook▲39

    2020 · hooked-on-redux.js.org · 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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    KSON, a love-letter to the humans maintaining computer configuration▲34

    Hi friends, I'm really excited to introduce KSON, which just entered public beta! Anywhere a human is reading or editing YAML/JSON/TOML, KSON may be used as a more effective interface on that data. If you are such a human, we invite you to participate in this beta. tl;dr Check out the website [1], play with the online playground [2], install the library for your programming language [3], edit in your favorite editor [4], discuss and give feedback [5], contribute to the project [6]. (A personal note about this project: I love software. Machines made of words! Such a wonder. KSON…

    2025 · kson.org · its alternatives →

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    Kerno▲132

    Hey HN! Anibal, Sean, Vlad, Maxi and Karim here we're the co-founders of Kerno (https://www.kerno.io/). We're building a zero-hassle tool to help developers monitor and troubleshoot their services in a way that makes sense. No complex rollouts, no custom infra, no tons of instrumentation, no sidecars… none of that! Just a minimum effort, out-of-the box, highly contextualized and interactive experience so you and your team can focus on shipping! We basically scan your cluster resources, build usable abstractions on top of all the kubernetes craziness, identify monitor your…

    Dec 2025 · kerno.io · its alternatives →

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    Taming the State in React▲92

    A journey to learn Redux and MobX in React.js

    2017 · roadtoreact.com · its alternatives →

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    The Changelog - 187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov▲83

    We talked about Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript

    2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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    A Modern C/C++ build tools (Simple, Fast, Cross-platform)▲89

    A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

    2019 · xmake.io · 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 →

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    Redux-Tiles – library to deal with verbosity of Redux▲35

    Composable way to create less verbose Redux code. Contribute to Bloomca/redux-tiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A React components library for building interactive maps▲88

    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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    A console-based editor with Lua support, based on antirez's project▲85

    A minimal text-editor with lua scripting. Contribute to skx/kilua development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Keikai▲79

    Fastest web spreadsheet for Big Data

    2018 · keikai.io · its alternatives →

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