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24 alternatives to Tiny JS – A Tiny JavaScript Library for Easy DOM Creation
Hi everyone, the other day I was here cause I thought I came up with a neat way of creating HTML via JavaScript [1] - After some iterations, I'm quite content with the code I wrote. Since I intend to use this in my personal projects, I thought others might as well. 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41451559
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Tiny JS – A Tiny JavaScript Library for Easy DOM Creation launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2013 · minifiedjs.com · its alternatives →
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http://instantclick.io/ It seems the internet architecture won't bring us instant websites anytime soon. So here is a hack. I released this JS library last month (today is version 2.0 release, fixing v1.0's rough edges), it makes use of HTML5's pushState and preloading to make a website instant. It works like this: before clicking on a link, you'll hover over it. And there's a delay of 200-300 ms between these two events. InstantClick uses this delay to preload a page, when you click on a link it will display instantly in most case. (You can test on the website.) That's…
2014 · its alternatives →
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:umbrella: Lightweight javascript library for DOM manipulation and events
2018 · umbrellajs.com · its alternatives →
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JavaScript.com▲217A free resource for learning and developing in JavaScript
2015 · javascript.com · 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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🗿 Mini jQuery alternative. Dependency-free animations. Locality of Behavior. Use one element or arrays transparently. Pairs with htmx. Vanilla querySelector() but better! - gnat/surreal
2023 · github.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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An agnostic, reactive & minimalist (3kb) JavaScript UI library with direct access to native DOM.
2021 · caldom.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I got to work yesterday and today and came up with a very simple way to create and manage state in TinyJS. I end up creating a simple App to illustrate how to use the new createState function and custom components in a React like manner. Here's the code for it - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/tinyapp Here's the PR for the createState function - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/TinyJS/pull/9
2025 · its alternatives →
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Stories and wisdom from the panel, for beginner programmers
2016 · javascriptair.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · blocklike.org · its alternatives →
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Repo here: https://github.com/aidenybai/million My name is Aiden Bai and I'm really interested in HCI research, particularly within user interface (UI) and web development. At the time of writing this, I'm a student at Camas High School. In July 2021, Million.js began as an experiment with Virtual DOM because I was curious with how UI libraries worked. I was frustrated with the lack of a modern, fast, and modular Virtual DOM library for JavaScript. Virtual DOM had been around for almost a decade, yet many Virtual DOM libraries still struggle with render speed compared to…
2022 · its alternatives →
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A modern introduction to Javascript
2014 · eloquentjavascript.net · its alternatives →
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RE:DOM▲6Tiny turboboosted JavaScript library for user interfaces
2017 · redom.js.org · its alternatives →
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femtoJS▲6Really small JavaScript (ES6) library for DOM manipulation.
2019 · vladocar.github.io · its alternatives →
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Create embeddable web widgets with any frontend framework
2021 · simplicityblocks.com · its alternatives →
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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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fasterDOM.js - faster DOM manipulation. Contribute to bndr/fasterDOM.js development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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