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24 alternatives to Leafjs

A lightweight web-components based frontend framework

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Leafjs launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Leaf PHP▲113

   Create clean, simple but powerful web apps and APIs quickly.

   2019 · leaf-docs.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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   Leaf 3▲116

   Simple and elegant PHP

   2021 · leafphp.dev · its alternatives →

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   Leaf PHP MVC Framework▲110

   Create clean, simple but powerful web apps and APIs quickly.

   2019 · leafmvc.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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   SnailJS▲129

   Slow and thoughtful development with Node and React

   2019 · github.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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   NestJS▲149

   A progressive Node.js framework 🚀

   2018 · nestjs.com · its alternatives →

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   WeWeb▲537

   Create websites faster with a next-generation visual builder

   2021 · weweb.io · its alternatives →

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   Leaf – Create interactive coding tutorials▲127

   2021 · getleaf.app · its alternatives →

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   Cami.js – A no build, web component based reactive framework▲113

   Hi Everyone! My main motivation for making this was that I wanted something as powerful as Svelte or React but I wanted no build steps, no JSON API, and I wanted something as close to vanilla js as much as possible. I'm mainly a backend developer, and I wanted to simply return html with some interactive islands when I need to (whose components get 'hydrated' with by backend language's templates). Some key ideas: • It's centered around light dom web components • Uses a "reactive element", which uses observables for fine-grained reactivity • Rendering is done through lit-html's tagged…

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RedwoodJS▲203

    Hey 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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    WebComponents.dev▲101

    The modern IDE for web platform developers

    2020 · webcomponents.dev · its alternatives →

12. 12IR
    I rebuilt my blogging app on Node.js and just open sourced it▲76

    2017 · postleaf.org · its alternatives →

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    Chart.js▲263

    Simple, clean & engaging charts for designers and developers

    2014 · chartjs.org · its alternatives →

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    WhitestormJS▲89

    🚀 3D Framework for developing web apps with physics.

    2016 · 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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    SkateJS – a cross framework web components based library▲144

    Effortless custom elements powered by modern view libraries. - skatejs/skatejs

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    LemonadeJS – A micro JavaScript library for building web interfaces▲57

    Reactive components with React-like patterns at ~9 KB gzip. Zero dependencies, zero build step, designed for humans and AI agents.

    2021 · lemonadejs.net · its alternatives →

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    CanvasJS Charts v2▲209

    Responsive HTML5 charts with 10x performance

    2017 · canvasjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Leaf API Framework (PHP)▲3

    Lightweight PHP MVC framework for rapid API development.

    2020 · leafphp.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    WoofJS▲153

    Easy-to-learn JS graphic framework

    2016 · woofjs.com · its alternatives →

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    WebJSX – A tiny Web Components and JSX library▲26

    2024 · webjsx.org · its alternatives →

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    Leaf UI▲7

    A PHP library for building dynamic user interfaces

    2023 · ui.leafphp.dev · its alternatives →

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    Chart.js 4.0▲111

    Open source JavaScript charting library for the modern web

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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