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24 alternatives to Ractive.js

Live, reactive UI library that doesn't make you go insane

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ractive.js launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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 →
2
Reactive - 14: Wizards Of The Browser▲55
Node packages, CSS Wizardry, RxJS Observables & Wombats
2015 · its alternatives →
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Draft.js▲166
A framework for building rich text editors in React
2016 · facebook.github.io · its alternatives →
4
Reactive Maps▲218
Build awesome maps with reusable UI + data components.
2017 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →
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Jumpsuit▲92
A minimal React and Redux framework
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
6
Rax▲71
A universal React-compatible render engine.
2017 · rax.taobaofed.org · its alternatives →
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Render▲169
React-inspired Swift library for writing UIKit UIs
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Blueprint▲203
A React UI toolkit for the web
2016 · blueprintjs.com · its alternatives →
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Arrow JavaScript, Reactivity Without the Framework▲32
A tiny ~2kb library for building reactive interfaces in native JavaScript
2025 · arrow-js.com · its alternatives →
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Smooth UI, a React UI Library for Humans▲87
Modern React UI library 💅👩‍🎤🍭. Contribute to smooth-code/smooth-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AniJS▲87
UI Interaction Library for Web Designers in Plain English
2014 · anijs.github.io · its alternatives →
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Inferno▲6
React-like JavaScript library for building modern UI.
2016 · infernojs.org · its alternatives →
13
A tiny and fast reactive observables library via functions▲72
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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Reactive - 12: Focus on the things that are cool▲64
Twitter layoffs, npm Orgs, how to keep up.
2015 · its alternatives →
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Coherent UI▲89
HTML5 GUI designed for real-time applications and games
2015 · coherent-labs.com · its alternatives →
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Reactive - 19: Implode in a Ball of Spaghetti▲53
FrankfurtJS, WaffleJS, Wordpress on Node.
2015 · its alternatives →
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Reactuate – a React/Redux stack with a focus on domain-driven design▲49
React/Redux stack (not a boilerplate kit). Contribute to reactuate/reactuate development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CalDOM: An agnostic, reactive and minimalist JavaScript UI library▲107
An agnostic, reactive & minimalist (3kb) JavaScript UI library with direct access to native DOM.
2021 · caldom.org · 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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Caldera – Phoenix LiveView for Node and React▲101
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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Sinuous – Small, fast, reactive UI library▲76
🧬 Light, fast, reactive UI library. Contribute to luwes/sinuous development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Antetype▲74
Design responsive UIs for apps and websites.
2014 · its alternatives →
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Pure JS live-editing for React▲6
2014 · gaearon.github.io · its alternatives →
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Connective – Large-scale reactive programming in Javascript/Typescript▲59
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2019 · connective.dev · its alternatives →

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