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24 alternatives to Million.js v2.0.0

An extremely fast virtual DOM - React up to 70% faster

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Million.js v2.0.0 launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A fast, <1kb virtual DOM

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🦁 <1kb compiler-augmented virtual DOM. It's fast!

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Make React Faster. Automatically.

    2023 · million.dev · its alternatives →

  4. 4IM

    In brief: I'm Aiden, 18, and have spent the past 2 years of high school working on Million.js, an open source React alternative with 11K stars on GitHub and hundreds of thousands of npm downloads. Recently, I released automatic mode, which detects slow React components and automatically optimizes the reconciliation phase. It's still in beta but chugging along. It's around 70% faster than React on the JS Framework Benchmark and you can see how I did it here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;million.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;virtual-dom Interested? Check it out here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;million.dev

    2023 · its alternatives →

  5. 5IM

    Repo here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million My name is Aiden Bai and I'm really interested in HCI research, particularly within user interface (UI) and web development. At the time of writing this, I'm a student at Camas High School. In July 2021, Million.js began as an experiment with Virtual DOM because I was curious with how UI libraries worked. I was frustrated with the lack of a modern, fast, and modular Virtual DOM library for JavaScript. Virtual DOM had been around for almost a decade, yet many Virtual DOM libraries still struggle with render speed compared to…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I made a React compatibility library for a Virtual DOM library (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;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 &#x2F; plugin incompatibility &#x2F; 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackblitz.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million-react-compat

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Million▲169

    Speed up your website by 70%

    2024 · million.dev · its alternatives →

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    Identify & fix slow code – Grammarly for performance

    2024 · million.dev · its alternatives →

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    Faster user-land reimplementations for several common builtin native JavaScript functions. - codemix/fast.js

    2014 · github.com · 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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    Optimizing compiler for React. Contribute to aidenybai/million development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Thanks for your attention to my post. It was a big challenge to run most of Node.js packages in browser, fast moreover. Virtual File system, resolve import&#x2F;export. I got cold many times, depressions, burned out, yet still alive and finished it. Many guys helped me with an advice. Many users give a lot of positive feedback. There are 200,000 monthly unique users. I work full time now because of the freemium business model. To be honest - I am happy after many years of hard work.

    2022 · playcode.io · its alternatives →

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    Animated typing without the headaches

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Had some fun with shared array buffers over many months of free time. Skip to the end to play around with the final app. Open to ideas on how to simulate more whilst staying in js land.

    2024 · dgerrells.com · its alternatives →

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    ⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API - iamkun/dayjs

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    faster.js is a Babel plugin that compiles idiomatic Javascript to faster, micro-optimized Javascript. - vzhou842/faster.js

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    http:&#x2F;&#x2F;instantclick.io&#x2F; 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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    JS/ReactJS simulation of A Million Times

    2017 · clocks.80limit.com · its alternatives →

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    UI elements in ready-to-use components for React

    2017 · coolsymbol.now · its alternatives →

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    A light weight CLI tool for rapid scaffolding of React apps

    2021 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    Author here. This is an attempt to simplify frontend development: 1. Standards first: User interfaces should be assembled with HTML, styled with CSS, and enhanced with JavaScript. 2. Less abstractions: UI composition should be easy and require as few idioms and abstractions as possible, both on client and server. 3. Design Systems: Design should be a separate subsystem, easily accessible for developers who care about and understand design. 4. Scalability: Complex UIs should retain simplicity as the application grows. Eager to hear your thoughts!

    2025 · nuejs.org · its alternatives →

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