espresso.js vs You-Dont-Need-jQuery

espresso.js

Super minimal MVC library (by akrymski)

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You-Dont-Need-jQuery

Examples of how to do query, style, dom, ajax, event etc like jQuery with plain javascript. (by camsong)

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espresso.js		You-Dont-Need-jQuery
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1	Mentions	7
534	Stars	20,322
0.0%	Growth	0.0%
3.2	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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espresso.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of espresso.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-05.

Espresso.js – minimal React alternative – is now a decade old
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2022

You-Dont-Need-jQuery

Posts with mentions or reviews of You-Dont-Need-jQuery. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-05.

Espresso.js – minimal React alternative – is now a decade old
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2022

In the past I recommended people to look at https://github.com/camsong/You-Dont-Need-jQuery. I haven't looked at it in a while but it looks up to date.
Please Help me convert jQuery to vanilla JavaScript !
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 27 Mar 2022
SPA + NET Api or NET MVC
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 25 Mar 2022

Check out some resources like You Might Not Need jQuery and You Don't Need jQuery for some examples of how modern native JavaScript can handle most of the common jQuery utilities without the overhead of jQuery.
Alternative to Jquery using vanilla JS
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 18 Mar 2022
Bringing Back The One Thing I Love About jQuery
1 project | dev.to | 20 Dec 2021

But, this was a tedious task given how bare bones JavaScript and web browser APIs were compared to other programming languages. Imagine not having fetch or document.querySelector. That's pretty rough right? Well, jQuery filled in all the gaps, and then some. For some, jQuery was the standard library of client-side web development. But, that was then; JavaScript and the web has evolved.
You-Dont-Need-jQuery
1 project | /r/journalduhacker | 28 Nov 2021
Evolution
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 20 Jun 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing espresso.js and You-Dont-Need-jQuery you can also consider the following projects:

Stimulus - A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have [Moved to: https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus]

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

Keo - Plain functions for a more functional Deku approach to creating stateless React components, with functional goodies such as compose, memoize, etc... for free.

derw - An Elm-inspired language that transpiles to TypeScript

inferno - :fire: An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces

hyperapp - 1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications

Monkberry - Monkberry is a JavaScript library for building web user interfaces

react-native - A framework for building native applications using React

Polymer - Our original Web Component library.

Ember.js - Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications

NativeScript - ⚡ Empowering JavaScript with native platform APIs. ✨ Best of all worlds (TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java). Use what you love ❤️ Angular, Capacitor, Ionic, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue with: iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI), Android (View, Jetpack Compose), Dart (Flutter) and you name it compatible.

AngularJS - AngularJS - HTML enhanced for web apps!