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24 alternatives to Shiny.js

Shiny reflections for mobile websites 🌟

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Shiny.js launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Shiny.js simulates reflections on the web for mobile devicesâ–²113

    🌟 Shiny reflections for mobile websites. Contribute to rikschennink/shiny development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Anime.js – Polyvalent JavaScript Animation Engine▲283

    A fast, multipurpose and lightweight JavaScript animation library

    2016 · anime-js.com · its alternatives →

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    Reflectâ–²626

    Fast networked note-taking

    2022 · reflect.app · its alternatives →

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    Shiny Express – Reactive web framework for data science in Python▲33

    Shiny is an open source web framework for data scientists to create interactive web applications, using Python or R. Shiny for R has been around since 2012, Shiny for Python since 2022. Today, we're releasing Shiny Express, a new syntax for writing Shiny for Python apps that is dramatically simpler and more concise. You can write full-stack interactive applications that manipulate and visualize your data in realtime, using a syntax that is highly reminiscent of writing a regular Python script.

    2024 · shiny.posit.co · its alternatives →

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    Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualizationâ–²404

    A JavaScript Library for creating SVG patterns

    2015 · riccardoscalco.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Reflect 2.0â–²325

    Networked note-taking, now v2

    2022 · reflect.app · its alternatives →

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    Velocity.js – Accelerated JavaScript animation▲160

    Velocity.js: An incredibly fast animation engine for motion designers.

    2014 · velocityjs.org · its alternatives →

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    Ramjet.js – Morph DOM elements into each other▲309

    2015 · rich-harris.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    A JavaScript library for data visualization in both SVG and Canvasâ–²161

    Here's a project I've been working on for a little while now. Ripl is a JS library that provides a unified API for rendering shapes on both canvas and SVG interchangeably. Over the years I've used D3 extensively to create data visualisations so I figured I'd have a go at making my own version with a slightly more modern API and stricter TypeScript support. I am aware there are already libraries that can draw to multiple contexts interchangeably, but I've added a few little niceties to Ripl that (as far as I know) some other libraries don't have such as CSS-like query selectors, DOM-like…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Shinyâ–²85

    A web application framework for R

    2014 · shiny.posit.co · its alternatives →

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    Impulse – Dynamic JS Animations for the Mobile Web▲93

    2014 · impulse.luster.io · its alternatives →

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    uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart▲260

    📈 A small, fast chart for time series, lines, areas, ohlc & bars - leeoniya/uPlot

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CanvasJS Charts v2â–²209

    Responsive HTML5 charts with 10x performance

    2017 · canvasjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Reflectionâ–²109

    Market insights for app developers

    2018 · reflection.io · its alternatives →

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    lightGalleryâ–²78

    Full-featured JavaScript image and video gallery

    2021 · lightgalleryjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Reflectionâ–²101

    An explorable 3D world, created with your webcam

    2015 · ianmaclarty.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    ReactGlobeâ–²75

    Build interactive globe visualizations with ease 🌎

    2019 · react-globe.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    Shinify â–²61

    Get a Shiny R server for your ML model with one line of code

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vivid JSâ–²183

    A highly customizable, open source SVG icons library

    2018 · webkul.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Shiny Buildings – GitHub for Buildings▲43

    2021 · shinybuildings.com · its alternatives →

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    PullToRefresh.jsâ–²119

    A small, but powerful JavaScript library crafted to power your webapp

    2016 · boxfactura.com · its alternatives →

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    ScrollRevealâ–²118

    Easy scroll animations for web and mobile browsers.

    2014 · scrollrevealjs.org · its alternatives →

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    Slick Gradientâ–²104

    A curated collection of beautiful gradients

    2022 · slick-gradient.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Swap.js – a JavaScript micro-framework (HTML fragments over the wire)▲127

    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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