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24 alternatives to Scaffold

A local-first visual React site builder.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React▲683

   2021 · portfolio.zxh.io · its alternatives →

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   Scaffoldly▲70

   The SaaS Builder for Startups

   2021 · scaffoldly.dev · its alternatives →

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   React for Designers▲286

   Course for building a React site using components

   2018 · designcode.io · its alternatives →

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   React Native Desktop▲545

   Build OS X desktop apps using React Native

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first▲506

   Hey HN, I'm Nate, the creator of Tamagui. One is a React framework that does two things differently in hopes of simplifying how we build websites and apps: 1. It unifies React Native and React web with typed file system routing by making Vite able to serve RN. This lets you share (or diverge) your code in a simpler way for cross-platform apps. 2. We've partnered with Zero (https://zerosync.dev) to make local-first work well. We've been building a solution in One that makes Zero supporting server rendering, without waterfalls, and with seamless server/client handoff. ---…

   2024 · onestack.dev · its alternatives →

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   UI Builder for shadcn/ui▲242

   React component for a visual way to create UIs

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   WeWeb▲537

   Create websites faster with a next-generation visual builder

   2021 · weweb.io · its alternatives →

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   React Bricks▲213

   CMS with visual editing based on React components

   2022 · reactbricks.com · its alternatives →

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   React Boilerplate 3.0▲370

   Offline-first, highly scalable foundation for your next app

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A front-end visual development tool for React applications▲178

    Webcodesk - Web App Builder for Create React App. Contribute to webcodesk/webcodesk-srv development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Foundation Building Blocks▲279

    Free library of coded UI components to jumpstart development

    2017 · get.foundation · its alternatives →

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    Scaffold App for Node.js, Express, Jade, Passport, MongoDB, Bootstrap▲63

    Web application featuring Node.js, Express, Jade, Passport, MongoDB and Bootstrap - rodrigogs/nodejs-web-jade-scaffold

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ScaffoldHub▲3

    Your next web application generated in minutes

    2019 · scaffoldhub.io · its alternatives →

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    Plasmic▲330

    Next-gen visual builder/design tool for any website or app

    2021 · plasmic.app · its alternatives →

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    Webflow DevLink▲205

    Use Webflow to build React & Web components visually

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Open-sourced Webflow for your own app▲336

    Hi HN, I’m Kiet, one of the creators of Onlook studio. I made this app that allows you to visually edit your locally running React app and write the code back to it in real-time. The purpose is to allow you to develop UI while fully owning your code the whole time. There are other visual builders out there but they either require you to upload your code to the cloud or some lengthy setup process. Onlook runs locally, deterministically, and only requires adding a plugin for the compile step (2 lines of config change). Technical details: This is technically a web browser that can point to your…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Web App Generators for React, Angular, Vue, SQL, MongoDB or Firestore▲53

    Model your entities, generate the full stack: schema, API, forms, tables, RBAC, i18n. React, Hono, Prisma, shadcn/ui. Tuned for AI coding assistants.

    2019 · scaffoldhub.io · its alternatives →

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    Slashdiv▲77

    Visual React JS layout builder

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Composify – Open-Source Visual Editor / Server-Driven UI for React▲73

    Everyone's shipping AI tools right now, and here I am with a visual editor. Still, I think many teams are very familiar with the problem of "marketing wants to change the landing page again." I've run into this for years. Campaign pages come in, engineers get pulled in, and tickets stack up. It's usually the same components, just rearranged. A few years ago, at a startup I worked at, we built an internal tool to deal with this. You register your existing React components, they show up as drag-and-drop blocks, and the result is a JSX string. No schema to learn, no changes to your component…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pingy Web Scaffold▲78

    Scaffold beautiful websites using your web browser

    2018 · pin.gy · its alternatives →

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    Scaffoldly – Serverless APIs on AWS, in Minutes▲26

    2021 · start.scaffold.ly · its alternatives →

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    Scaffold-Static CLI▲5

    A static site generator for vanilla JS.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Rapid React▲103

    A light weight CLI tool for rapid scaffolding of React apps

    2021 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    React for Beginners▲178

    Want to upgrade your JavaScript skills and learn React.js? Learn how to build websites and web apps in just a couple of afternoons.

    2015 · reactforbeginners.com · its alternatives →

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