StencilJS Alternatives

Vue.js is a free and open-source intuitive and composable MVVM framework for building interactive UIs with JavaScript. The library was first created and released by Evan You back in 2014, and saw a meteoric rise in the open-souce community. Possibly due to the accessible nature of the project and the library itself. With Vue.js you can get started by simply importing the script via CDN, and start building. Today, Vue.js is used in a multitude of web applications and powers interactive interfaces for people to enjoy across the globe.

React is a free an open-source Javascript framework for frontend development. With React you can build powerful, component-based application that supports compilation of JSX, ES6 and auto-prefixed CSS files. The popular framework is developed by Facebook and used by countless of applications across the web and mobile devices to build  structured user interfaces or UI components.

Svelte introduces a radical new approach to building user interfaces with JavaScript. It is a compile-based component framework that builds efficient code that updates the DOM. Where most traditional frontend JavaScript framework does most of their work in the browser, Svelte includes that work in the compilation process when you build your app. This creates a smaller app which ultimately leads to faster load times and a better experience for the end-user.

SvelteKit is a free and open-source framework used to create SSR, Static and Serverless web applications with Svelte. SvelteKit aims to replace Sapper and in the process unify the eco-system and have a single way to start building apps with Svelte. This will simplify on-boarding, and reduce maintenance and support burden for the core developers. SvelteKit fully embraces the serverless paradigm and has support for all the major serverless providers. Under the hood, SvelteKit uses Snowpack in development and compiles and hot reloads your code near instantly, making it an extremely pleasant developer experience.

Angular is a TypeScript-based free and open source platform and web application framework. The framework developed and released by the community and the Angular Team at Google. Angular is a is a complete rewrite of AngularJS.

Polymer is an open-source JavaScript library for building web applications using Web Components.

Elm is a free and open-source domain-specific programming language that uses type inference to detect corner cases and give friendly hints. The language is by developers to create browser-based graphical user interfaces and is designed for usability, performance, and robustness. Elm is purely functional and is actually a compiler that utilize static type checking, which means you can rest assured that your code will run runtime exceptions.

Ember.js is a productive, battle-tested JavaScript framework for building modern web applications. It includes everything you need to build rich UIs that work on any device. With Ember.js you can create client side JavaScript applications with a complete solution which contains data management and an application flow. Ember.js is developed and released as free and open source software under the MIT License.

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.

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Vite provides next generation tooling for frontend JavaScript development. It allows users to enjoy an instant server start with on demand file serving over native ESM, without required bundling. This allows Vite to be extremely fast when compare to traditionally bundled solutions like Webpack, Yarn and Rollup. Vite also provides lightning fast HMR (Hot Module Reload) that remains performant regardless of application or project size.