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24 alternatives to Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

Make Any DOM Reactive. Contribute to marsbos/mador development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mador is a lightweight JavaScript library that makes existing DOM elements reactive to state changes. It provides a tiny 80-line solution for binding reactive state to HTML elements, allowing developers to update the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    http://instantclick.io/ It seems the internet architecture won't bring us instant websites anytime soon. So here is a hack. I released this JS library last month (today is version 2.0 release, fixing v1.0's rough edges), it makes use of HTML5's pushState and preloading to make a website instant. It works like this: before clicking on a link, you'll hover over it. And there's a delay of 200-300 ms between these two events. InstantClick uses this delay to preload a page, when you click on a link it will display instantly in most case. (You can test on the website.) That's…

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Lightweight SVG/CSS spinners for React

    2020 · adexin.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Loaders▲373

    Delightful loading animations for your next project

    2022 · uiball.com · its alternatives →

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    A tiny (~1kB minzipped) and extremely fast library for creating reactive observables via functions. - maverick-js/signals

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Elementor▲410

    Advanced drag & drop live page builder for WordPress.

    2016 · trk.elementor.com · its alternatives →

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    Create animated loaders and generate production React code

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    UI elements in ready-to-use components for React

    2017 · coolsymbol.now · its alternatives →

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    Fir leverages Golang’s standard library html/template package and a bit of alpinejs to allow building reactive UIs. You start with plain old html and use alpinejs to enhance it to bring no-page-reload interactivity to web apps. The Fir toolkit is designed for Go developers with moderate html/css & js skills who want to progressively build reactive web apps without mastering complex web frameworks. It includes a Go library and an Alpine.js plugin. How it works ? On receiving user-interactions the fir server re-renders html templates and sends it over the wire where the fir client…

    2023 · livefir.fly.dev · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight HTML5 template library. Contribute to geekskool/temperor development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy to use css loading animations with vue.js integration

    2018 · epic-spinners.vuestic.dev · its alternatives →

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    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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    Motion (prev Framer Motion) is a fast, production-grade animation library for React, JavaScript and Vue. Build smooth UI animations at a tiny footprint.

    2021 · motion.dev · its alternatives →

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    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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    Hey HN, I'd like to share a fun project I've been working on: mizu.js. It's a js library that add functional attributes support into your html, designed to be a simple and flexible alternative to fully-fledged web frameworks (such as Vue, React, and Angular), while offering more capabilities than other lightweight options (like Alpine.js and htmx). As it's written using modern ES features and due to its isomorphic nature, it can be run in both browsers and runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun) without any changes. This makes it ideal for client-side and server-side rendering, as well as static site…

    2024 · mizu.sh · its alternatives →

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

    2021 · caldom.org · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I created this lib in the need of a simple and tiny framework to easily do AJAX-style navigation / replacement of fragments in the page, in a web application. For people who don't want to use client-side-rendering and complex frameworks à la React, there are nowadays a few "HTML-over-the-wire" libraries, like HTMX, Unpoly or this super-tiny one Swap.js :) One other key thing is that no external tool is needed: no bundler, no webpack, no TypeScript compiler, no minification needed. Just write HTML, JS (+ your preferred server-side language: PHP, Python, etc.) and it works. The…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    JS Decorators library. Contribute to mako-taco/DecorateThis development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Reactive states library for HTML

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Server-side execution for React 🌋. Contribute to calderajs/caldera-react development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I made a React compatibility library for a Virtual DOM library (https://github.com/aidenybai/million). The idea is to have much faster rendering (a compiler optimizes virtual DOM beforehand) while ensuring the same developer experience React provides. This is very, VERY early stage, so be prepared for weird bugs / plugin incompatibility / etc. If you have any suggestions, I'd be more than happy if you replied in a comment with it! You can spin up the demo here >> https://stackblitz.com/github/aidenybai/million-react-compat

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    A data aware UI components library for building realtime maps - reactivemaps/README.md at master · appbaseio/reactivemaps

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24SN

    Sycamore is a next generation Rust UI library powered by fine-grained reactivity. Create reactive apps with effortless performance

    Apr 2026 · sycamore.dev · its alternatives →

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