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24 alternatives to Redwood JS

Fullstack for the JAMstack

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Redwood JS launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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RedwoodJS▲203
Hey everyone, I'm the original co-creator of RedwoodJS. (The framework that myself and Tom Preston-Werner, Rob Cameron and David Price built during Covid.) I had tried to build a developer tool startup (Snaplet), and failed. I rejoined the efforts to add RSC to Redwood, but I realized that we needed a much simpler framework that was closely tied to a platform (We chose Cloudflare). We started building RedwoodSDK a year ago and this is the result. An insanely simple stack. I am incredibly proud of this work, please star our repo and let me know if there's anything that doesn't resonate with…
2022 · rwsdk.com · its alternatives →
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Forestry▲187
A lightweight CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites
2016 · tina.io · its alternatives →
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Tabstack Dev Tools▲319
Ditch your scraper. Make one API call with any tool.
Jun 2026 · tabstack.ai · its alternatives →
4
Kinase▲159
A framework for building web scrapers for Chrome
2017 · b12.io · its alternatives →
5
Total.js Messenger▲181
A small, open-source alternative to Slack
2017 · totaljs.com · its alternatives →
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NotebookJS▲109
Scientific computation for JavaScript
2016 · datazar.com · its alternatives →
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JAMstack Radio - Ep. #5, GraphQL At GitHub▲64
The JAMstack is a new way to build fast apps & websites.
2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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Stackness▲92
Show your stack! The social home for your dev tools
Sep 2026 · stackness.dev · its alternatives →
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The Changelog - 187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov▲83
We talked about Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript
2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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Forestry.io▲14
A lightweight CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites
2016 · tina.io · its alternatives →
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NW.js▲77
A new way of writing desktop apps with Web technologies
2015 · nwjs.io · its alternatives →
12
Stack Overflow Podcast - A Bunch of Bald Yaks▲66
HyperDev, the fastest way to bang out code and run it online
2016 · stackoverflow.blog · its alternatives →
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JAMstack Radio - Ep. #7, DraftJS & Rich Text Editing On The Web▲69
JAMstack is a new way to build fast & secure apps or sites.
2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight fullstack boilerplate based on VueJS and Node.js▲24
A lightweight boilerplate for a universal webapp based on koa, mongodb, node, vue, and webpack - yunhan0/koa-vue-fullstack
2018 · github.com · 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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Forestry.io▲11
A simple CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites
2016 · tina.io · its alternatives →
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DevStack▲8
Developer Tools
2025 · devstack.tools · its alternatives →
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Fullstack React▲12
The Complete Book on ReactJS and Friends
2016 · fullstackreact.com · its alternatives →
19IW
I wrote a little book about building fullstack application with Next.js▲10
2021 · fullstack-nextjs-in-action.taonan.lu · its alternatives →
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Nullstack – A framework for full stack JavaScript components▲7
2023 · nullstack.app · its alternatives →
21
A cross-platform JavaScript editor and runtime for local-first web app▲5
Beta Soon Follow me on X @cp_lepage and @get_fullstacked
2024 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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Fuse.js▲10
A lightweight JavaScript fuzzy-search tool
2016 · fusejs.io · its alternatives →
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Polished js▲6
A lightweight toolset for writing styles in JavaScript
2017 · polished.js.org · its alternatives →
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An interactive JS/TS dependency graph generator▲9
Interactive graph of dependencies between JS/TS files - fwouts/js-deps
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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