Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

BromBone is a service that makes JavaScript-based websites crawlable by Google for search engine indexing. It solves the problem of search engines struggling to index AngularJS, EmberJS, or BackboneJS applications by… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Make your AngularJS, EmberJS, or BackboneJS website crawlable by Google launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   SEO for JavaScript, HTML5 and Single Page Applications▲50

   SnapSearch is Search Engine Optimisation for Javascript, HTML 5 and Single Page Applications. Make your sites crawlable with SnapSearch. AngularJS SEO, BackboneJS SEO, Ember SEO, jQuery SEO Knockout SEO, Meteor SEO and Sails SEO.

   2014 · snapsearch.io · 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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   Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js▲282

   Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…

   2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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   Feathery.io Free▲100

   Host your JS application, now FREE to get started

   2019 · app.feathery.io · its alternatives →

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   Browse HN Together in Three.js▲268

   Hey HN, We’re Philip, Amby, and Declan, and we made “multiplayer virtual computers” that you can embed anywhere, including 3D spaces. We decided to build this because we noticed that embedding third-party apps and websites can be a nightmare due to incompatible platforms, security issues, and poor UX. Adding multiplayer functionality to these embeds makes this problem exponentially more difficult. On the backend, we’re spinning up a VM and running a resource-optimized fork of Chromium which we then stream to participants via WebRTC. Since we’re hosting the servers running the applications,…

   2022 · threejs-example.hyperbeam.com · its alternatives →

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   JavaScriptFrameworkGuide▲79

   Learn Angular, Backbone, Ember quickly

   2014 · its alternatives →

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   DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)▲269

   I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…

   2022 · its alternatives →

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   Feathery.io▲51

   Deploy any JavaScript SPA, with automatic SEO indexing

   2019 · feathery.io · its alternatives →

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   PrinceJS – 19,200 req/s Bun framework in 2.8 kB (built by a 13yo)▲151

   Hey HN, I'm 13, from Nigeria, and I just released PrinceJS — the fastest web framework for Bun right now. • 19,200 req&#x2F;s (beats Hono&#x2F;Elysia&#x2F;Express) • 2.8 kB gzipped • Tree-shakable (cache, AI, email, cron, SSE, queue, test, static...) • Zero deps. Zero config. Built in < 1 week. No team. Just me and Bun. Try it: `bun add princejs` GitHub: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MatthewTheCoder1218&#x2F;princejs Docs: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;princejs.vercel.app Brutal feedback welcome. What's missing? – @Lil_Prince_1218

   Nov 2025 · princejs.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    floors.js▲215

    Hey HN, I'm Vincent. I built floors.js to bring back social interactions on the web. You paste one script tag. Your pages become isometric 3D rooms. Visitors show up as avatars, see each other, and chat in real-time. Three.js handles the isometric rendering, and a Bun WebSocket server manages presence, rooms and chat. The whole thing runs without touching the host site's DOM or styles beyond its own container. It works on any static site and is also optimised for SPA navigation (clicking on a door lets you navigate to another page). The landing page itself is the live demo, and I'm in the…

    Feb 2026 · floorsjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Scraperjs – A versatile web scraper▲192

    A complete and versatile web scraper. Contribute to ruipgil/scraperjs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer▲145

    Learn how to scrape webpages using Puppeteer and Serverless Functions built with OpenFaaS.

    2020 · openfaas.com · its alternatives →

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    Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility▲103

    I read HN on my phone every day and never really settled on a reader, so I wrote my own and finally tidied it up enough to put out there. It's plain SwiftUI with no third-party dependencies. A few things I spent the most time on: Comments are parsed and drawn as native text instead of being dumped into a web view. Links, italics, quotes and code blocks behave like the rest of the OS, text selection works, and threads collapse instantly. The whole comment tree comes back from the Algolia API in a single request, which felt a lot nicer than walking the Firebase API node by node. Accessibility.…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WoofJS▲153

    Easy-to-learn JS graphic framework

    2016 · woofjs.com · its alternatives →

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    My first webapp. Build with rails, backbonejs and lots of love.▲36

    2012 · themescroller.com · its alternatives →

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    Monkberry – a JavaScript library for building web user interfaces▲115

    Monkberry is blazingly fast, small 1kb and simple JavaScript library for building web user interfaces.

    2016 · monkberry.js.org · its alternatives →

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    Robust LLM extractor for websites in TypeScript▲72

    We've been building data pipelines that scrape websites and extract structured data for a while now. If you've done this, you know the drill: you write CSS selectors, the site changes its layout, everything breaks at 2am, and you spend your morning rewriting parsers. LLMs seemed like the obvious fix — just throw the HTML at GPT and ask for JSON. Except in practice, it's more painful than that: - Raw HTML is full of nav bars, footers, and tracking junk that eats your token budget. A typical product page is 80% noise. - LLMs return malformed JSON more often than you'd expect, especially with…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an open-source framework▲107

    We're excited to announce Lowdefy V4, a full-stack web framework built on top of Next.js that simplifies building web applications, internal tools, admin panels, BI dashboards, and CRUD apps using YAML or JSON configuration files. New in V4: Next.js: Lowdefy now runs on top of the Next.js framework. All of Auth.js: App auth is now handled by Auth.js supported providers, adapters and callbacks and events, easy to configure, but all of which can be customized. Plugin extensibility: Apps can now be extended with any npm or pnpm workspace plugins. Our story: We have developed a simple…

    2021 · lowdefy.com · its alternatives →

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    AngularJS vs Backbone.js▲7

    2014 · pearstopears.com · its alternatives →

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    Jsblocks▲97

    Faster than AngularJS and ReactJS. Better MV-ish Framework.

    2015 · jsblocks.com · its alternatives →

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    Apify SDK – A scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript▲78

    Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headf

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I made yet another UI to browse HN▲28

    Primarily built this to learn how NextJS works and also a bit about Tailwind CSS. Also has request caching using the WebCache API + expiration which is quite a hacky implementation. Let me know what you think! Source is at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;say4n&#x2F;hn, pull requests welcome!

    2023 · hn.sayan.page · its alternatives →

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    LoadJS – A tiny async loader for modern browsers▲25

    A tiny async loader / dependency manager for modern browsers (961 bytes) - amorey/loadjs

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An embitious Hacker News reader built with Ember.js▲48

    2015 · chancancode.github.io · its alternatives →

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