Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Web-based Babel alternative for React/JSX (ultra-fast and tiny 5.1 kB)
🌟 DataFormsJS 🌟 A minimal JavaScript Framework, standalone React and Web Components, and JSX Compiler for rapid development of high quality websites and single page applications. - dataformsjs/docs/jsx-loader.md at master · dataformsjs/dataformsjs
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Web-based Babel alternative for React/JSX (ultra-fast and tiny 5.1 kB) launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2024 · webjsx.org · its alternatives →
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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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Faster user-land reimplementations for several common builtin native JavaScript functions. - codemix/fast.js
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · forgojs.org · 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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A minimal skeleton for building testable React apps using Babel - pheuter/essential-react
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we built a Chrome Extension (https://www.magicpatterns.com/extension) that converts a snippet of any website to an isolated React component. Demo video: https://youtu.be/hutUYDkyE_A How it works: 1) Iterate through each node in the selected DOM tree, 2) For each element, find any matching CSS selectors / inline styles, 3) Use window.getComputedStyle to get the deterministic values, 4) Construct JSX It was pretty hard producing the minimal code necessary while maintaining the same visual look. To do this, we implemented things like abstracting out…
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp
2017 · 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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Hi! I made a React compatibility library for a Virtual DOM library (https://github.com/aidenybai/million). The idea is to have much faster rendering (a compiler optimizes virtual DOM beforehand) while ensuring the same developer experience React provides. This is very, VERY early stage, so be prepared for weird bugs / plugin incompatibility / etc. If you have any suggestions, I'd be more than happy if you replied in a comment with it! You can spin up the demo here >> https://stackblitz.com/github/aidenybai/million-react-compat
2022 · its alternatives →
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1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp
2017 · 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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Super minimal MVC library. Contribute to akrymski/espresso.js development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Full reactivity JS/TS framework. Lightweight replacement of React + MobX + React Router. Very small and fast !! - PxyUp/Revact
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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faster.js is a Babel plugin that compiles idiomatic Javascript to faster, micro-optimized Javascript. - vzhou842/faster.js
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · thin.dev · its alternatives →
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🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript. - babel/babel
2014 · github.com · 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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1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Webrix.js▲60Powerful building blocks for interactive React application
2021 · webrix.amdocs.com · its alternatives →
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