Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash

Hey HN! After years of wrestling with Lodash's quirks and bundle size issues, I decided to build something better. SuperUtilsPlus is my attempt at creating the utility library I wish existed. What makes it different? TypeScript-first approach: Unlike Lodash's retrofitted types, I built this from the ground up with TypeScript. The type inference actually works the way you'd expect it to. Sensible defaults: Some of Lodash's decisions always bugged me. Like isObject([]) returning true - arrays aren't objects in my mental model. Or isNumber(NaN) being true when NaN literally stands for "Not a…

SuperUtilsPlus is a utility library built as a TypeScript-first alternative to Lodash. It offers improved type inference, smaller bundle sizes through proper tree-shaking, and ES2020+ support with full ESM… 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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Remult – a CRUD framework for full-stack TypeScript▲130
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Weird JSON superset with BigInt, Infinity, TypedArray etc▲67
the JS/Node.JS library for encoding complex and unconventional data structures. Support for BigInts, TypedArrays, null, undefined, and Symbol. Multiple flavors available. - DO-SAY-GO/WeirdJSON
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TypeScript 6.0▲156
The Playground lets you write TypeScript or JavaScript online in a safe and sharable way.
Mar 2026 · typescriptlang.org · its alternatives →
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Sucrase, 20x faster smaller-scoped alternative to Babel▲88
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2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A JavaScript UI library for imperative JSX▲41
I've been building a web UI library for a side project of mine. I thought it might be useful to others, so I'm releasing it as open source. To put it simply, I realized that most of my pain points with React come from its declarative model ui=f(state). So I'm trying something that I'm calling "imperative JSX." Instead of treating JSX as the source of truth for your UI, it essentially becomes a query interface for DOM manipulation. I first had the idea for it a few months ago, and only began writing it in earnest last week, so it's extremely early and nowhere near production-ready. Still, I'd…
2024 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun▲95
We've been building Crust (https://crustjs.com/), a TypeScript-first, Bun-native CLI framework with zero dependencies. It's been powering our core product internally for a while, and we're now open-sourcing it. The problem we kept running into: existing CLI frameworks in the JS ecosystem are either minimal arg parsers where you wire everything yourself, or heavyweight frameworks with large dependency trees and Node-era assumptions. We wanted something in between. What Crust does differently: - Full type inference from definitions — args and flags are inferred automatically. No…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs▲224
Yes, another reactive UI framework for JavaScript. Bear with me, please... :-) I 'invented' the concept for this back in 2011, and it was used (as a proprietary lib) in various startups. Even though many similar open source libs have been released since, and boy have I tried a lot of them, none have been able to capture the elegance and DX of what we had back then. I might be biased though. :-) So I started creating a cleaned-up, modern, TypeScript, open source implementation for the concept about five years ago. After many iterations, working on the project on and off, I'm finally happy…
2025 · aberdeenjs.org · its alternatives →
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Forgo.js – a 4kb React alternative based on plain JS and DOM APIs▲110
2021 · forgojs.org · its alternatives →
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Fast 2kB date library alternative to Moment.js with the same API▲122
⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API - iamkun/dayjs
2018 · github.com · 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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I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript▲79
Visual metasearch engine built with TypeScript, React, Redux & Express - JoshuaRabiu/spresso-search
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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libmodulor – An opinionated TS library to build multi-platform apps▲51
Initially I started building this for my own projects. The main goal was to define a unified "blueprint" allowing me to develop multi-platform apps using the same code, without code generation. I wanted to be able to develop the same functionality on web, desktop, cli, server, mobile, whatever... I've been able to achieve this by relying on TypeScript, a 4-layer architecture (UseCase => App => Product => Target) and dependency injection. This mechanism allows me to use whatever tech stack I want, provided the good adapters are developed. For instance, I have pre-built ones : node express…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Frontend Fuzzy Search▲120
I have spent several years working on search engines in the backend and have now utilized that experience to develop a fuzzy search library for the frontend. It's fast, accurate and can be used for all languages. It should be easy to integrate into your Javascript / Typescript projects. If you test it and find any edge cases that did not work for you please let me know. The implementation is based on 3-grams by the book, augmented with a novel trick of sorting the characters within the 3-grams for enhanced accuracy. For a detailed explanation you may refer to my related blog post at…
2024 · 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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TypeScript to GraphQL conversion tool with type inference▲90
Build Typed GraphQL Queries in TypeScript without the code generation - acro5piano/typed-graphqlify
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fast Jekyll Alternative in TypeScript with JSX▲13
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2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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6to5 – Turn ES6 code into vanilla ES5 with source maps and no runtime▲48
🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript. - babel/babel
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JavaScript typed arrays data structures for memory intensive tasks▲23
2015 · chethiya.github.io · its alternatives →
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Omniscient: Abstracting React – fast top down render of immutable data▲11
A library providing an abstraction for React components that allows for fast top-down rendering embracing immutable data for js.
2014 · omniscientjs.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hybrids – UI Library for Web Components with Simple and Functional API▲39
Extraordinary JavaScript UI framework with unique declarative and functional architecture - hybridsjs/hybrids
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SimpleR State – simple state management for React▲43
The simplest app state management for React. Contribute to arnelenero/simpler-state development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a JavaScript UI library with reactive atomic updates▲6
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2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JS20▲12
Build TypeScript backends and SDKs with up to 90% less code. Faster, cheaper & easier to maintain. Ready for the AI era, less code = less tokens & reduced costs.
Oct 2025 · js20.dev · its alternatives →
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Type-safe search params state management for Next.js▲10
Next.js has APIs to read and update search params (the /?foo=bar part of the URL), but they lack type-safety for consistent keys and proper parsing/serializing of JS data types. I found myself repeatedly building the same custom hook to get a React.useState-like approach. In 2021, I published it to NPM and then forgot about it. Since then, the `nuqs` package has gained popularity and is now used by companies like Vercel, Auth.js, Gitbook, and Midday.ai, with 200K weekly downloads. It's been fun building this as a side project and automating as much as possible to ensure a…
2024 · nuqs.47ng.com · its alternatives →

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