Hotwire Alternatives

Phoenix LiveView enables rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML. LiveView is free and open-source tool built for the Elixir framework Phoenix. It allows you to use a declarative model to render HTML on the server over WebSockets with optional LongPolling fallback. It also comes with templating and change tracking, live form validation with upload support, rich integration API with the client with phx-click, phx-focus, phx-blur, phx-submit, and a phx-hook for the cases where you have to write JavaScript.

HTMX is a HTML-first web framework that allows you to access AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML Markup, using attributes. With HTMX, developers can quickly build emmersive experiences and modern user interfaces without having to worry about REST APIs or complicated frontend JavaScript configurations. HTMX weighs in at just under 10k min.gz'd and is completley dependecy-free.

Laravel Livewire is a free and open-source, full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic interfaces simple. The framework allows you to build modern web applications faster, without leaving the comfort of Laravel. In a world where building modern web applications has become significantly more complex over time, Laravel Livewire can facilitate some of the functionallity brough about by frameworks like Angular, React, Vue and Svelte, without having to write JavaScript.