Open Source Software for Self-Hosted
Turbolinks
Turbolinks is a JavaScript library that intercepts all clicks on <a href> links to the same domain. When you click an eligible link, Turbolinks prevents the browser from following it. Instead, Turbolinks changes the browser's URL using the History API, requests the new page using XMLHttpRequest, and then renders the HTML response. Allowing you to create dynamic page loading without utilizing SPA architecture.
Polymer
Polymer is an open-source JavaScript library for building web applications using Web Components.
VRaptor
VRaptor is a free and open-source MVC framework written in Java. VRaptor is used to develop web applications on top of CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE). The framework features tools that allow developers to maintain a high productivity and a developer experience loved by many. The VRaptor community consist of seasoned developers that freely build and distribute the framework free of charge.
Gitly
Gitly is a free and open-source git-based source code management tool written in V. The software can be self-hosted affordably with a $3.5 cloud instance. Gitly is light, fast and utlize minimal ammount of RAM, and can be deployed as a single <1 MB binary, including compiled templates.
Vite.js
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.
Pyodide
Pyodide is a scientific Python stack that compiles to WebAssembly allowing you to run the Python 3.8 runtime to the browser via WebAssembly. With Pyodide you can run popular libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, and scikit-learn in any modern browser.
HTMX
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.
Jest
A delightful free and open source testing framework for JavaScript that focus on simplicity. With Jest you can test your application written built with Babel, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Angular and Vue.js, in a simple, config free manner.
Hotwire
Hotwire or HTML Over The Wire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. Hotwire is a newly released project from the guys at Basecamp, and the Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. The project aims to simplify the process of building web-based apps as a small team or solo developer. The concept is however not new, it dates back years, and we have seen implementations being done before. Laravel Livewire, Phoenix Liveview and HTMX is similar implementations of the concept or serverside render blocks of HTML dynamically.