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24 alternatives to Radi.js is a tiny (3kB minified and gzipped) JavaScript framework

🌀Tiny (in size) front-end framework with no extra browser re-flows

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Radi.js is a tiny (3kB minified and gzipped) JavaScript framework launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    JavaScript framework that's quite different and super fast

    2018 · radi.js.org · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · 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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    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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    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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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I'm releasing Hyperdiv (https://hyperdiv.io), a framework for rapidly developing reactive browser UIs in Python, with immediate-mode syntax and using Shoelace (https://shoelace.style) as its built-in component system. This short coding video will give you a good idea of what it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJKfxaqvGE I wrote a brief article about the motivation and approach: https://hyperdiv.io/intro.html Hyperdiv doesn't aim to compete with serious full-stack frameworks. The core aim was to make it easy and fast to…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Radix UI▲301

    Unstyled React components for building UI

    2022 · radix-ui.com · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Rax▲71

    A universal React-compatible render engine.

    2017 · rax.taobaofed.org · 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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    A beautiful CSS framework in under 2 KiB

    2013 · andhart.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Next.js▲19

    A small framework for server-rendered universal JS webapps

    2016 · vercel.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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    A minimal React and Redux framework

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2015 · responsifyjs.space · its alternatives →

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    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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    Minimal standalone JS library for building web applications.

    2018 · github.com · 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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