Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to VanillaTreeViewer
Minimalist file browser for displaying several files at once
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. VanillaTreeViewer launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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🌱 TDF - Tree Document Format - a universal file format for web collections - DO-SAY-GO/tdf
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…
2025 · desktopdocs.com · its alternatives →
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A simple snippet for tracking page views on your website without having to add external libraries. Also works for single page applications made with the likes of react and vue.js.
2018 · minimalanalytics.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, (First time poster!) I'm the author of `lstr`. I've always loved the classic Linux `tree` command for its simplicity, but I often found myself wanting more modern features like interactivity and Git integration. So, I decided to build my own version in Rust with a philosophy of being fast, minimalist, and interactive. It was also an excuse to help learn more about Rust\! Here's a quick look at the interactive mode: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bgreenwell/lstr/main/asset... I've just released v0.2.0 with some features I think this community might find…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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cat for images, by RUST
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GUI disk analyzers are great for figuring out what's filling up your laptop/desktop drive. On containers or remote servers, the options are limited to purely text based utilities (e.g. du) or list-centric TUIs (e.g. ncdu) which are usually limited to viewing one directory at a time. I created leaves to fill that gap. Inspired by classic utilities like WinDirStat and KDirStat, it uses a 2-dimensional treemap^1 visualization to show the entire directory hierarchy with proportionally sized rectangles. It's performant enough to handle millions of files, thanks to Rust and multi-threading.…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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(spoiler: its XSLT) I've been working on a little demo for how to avoid copy-pasting header/footer boilerplate on a simple static webpage. My goal is to approximate the experience of Jekyll/Hugo but eliminate the need for a build step before publishing. This demo shows how to get basic templating features with XSL so you could write a blog post which looks like My Article some content hello hello Some properties which set this approach apart from other methods: - no build step (no need to setup Jekyll on the client or configure Github/Gitlab actions) - works on any webserver…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RedwoodJS▲203Hey 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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2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Pinetree(Beta)▲103Pinetree is browser-based hierarchical markdown editor
2025 · pine-tree.site · its alternatives →
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Donut Browser▲154Hi HN, I'm excited to share my open source project, a browser orchestrator. It's purpose is to make it easy to manage many browser profiles on one system. Currently it only works on MacOS, but since I've built it using Tauri (which is a Rust backend and TypeScript frontend), I expect to add Linux and Windows support in the future. I've built it primarily for myself as I use a lot of browsers and having an easy way to manage all of my profiles would make (have made, actually) my dock less cluttered haha. Also, part of why I built it is because as someone who doesn't really care about…
Apr 2026 · donutbrowser.com · its alternatives →
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a lightweight dependency free javascript micro-library for making collapsable trees with JSON
2017 · maxleiter.github.io · its alternatives →
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2014 · jaredly.github.io · its alternatives →
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Standalone tree view file explorer, inspired by fzf. - wvanlint/twf
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Effortlessly visualize JSON structures as dynamic tree diagrams - The-01-Company/jsontr.ee
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Files App▲78Single-file PHP file manager, browser and photo gallery
2021 · files.gallery · its alternatives →
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node dependency trees as a service. Contribute to fiatjaf/node-dependencies-view development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A static kdtree data structure. Contribute to mikolalysenko/static-kdtree development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm building a JavaScript debugger called Wirebrowser. It combines network inspection, request rewriting, heap snapshots, and live object search. The main experimental feature is BDHS (Breakpoint-Driven Heap Search): it hooks into the JavaScript debugger and automatically captures a heap snapshot at every pause and performs a targeted search for the value or structure of interest. This reveals the moment a value appears in memory and the user-land function responsible for creating it. Another interesting feature is the Live Object Search: it inspects runtime objects (not just…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Author here, happy to answer questions about the tool. I've shared my motivations for writing the tool on the ReadMe page in GitHub, and I'll elaborate on this with a blog article in the coming week or two. Some background on the tool: HandyDash is a cross-platform HTTP, TCP, and IP monitoring tool, intended for desktop use. It is agent free, requires no installation, and saves all configuration to a single portable file. Simply unzip the package and run the executable, and within a few minutes you can view and edit nodes within the browser based UI. Thanks.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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