swup VS turbo

Compare swup vs turbo and see what are their differences.

swup

Versatile and extensible page transition library for server-rendered websites 🎉 (by swup)

turbo

The speed of a single-page web application without having to write any JavaScript (by hotwired)
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swup turbo
16 145
4,398 6,366
1.5% 2.6%
9.7 8.8
6 days ago 1 day ago
TypeScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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swup

Posts with mentions or reviews of swup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-29.
  • Coming to grips with JS: a Rubyist's deep dive
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Dec 2023
    Sure, you can use any number of JS-avoidance libraries. I'm a fan of Turbo, and there's also htmx, Unpoly, Alpine, hyperscript, swup, barba.js, and probably others.
  • Show HN: We built swup+fragment-plugin to visually enhance classic websites
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2023
    2. The newly released fragment-plugin [3] that provides a declarative API for dynamically replacing containers based on rules

    I can now finally build websites that tick all three boxes:

    1. Visually impressive, fun, and snappy by using swup's first-class support for animations[4], cache[5], and preload capacities[6], enhanced with fragment visits as seen on the demo site.

    2. Accessible by being able to serve server-rendered semantic markup that will fully work even with JavaScript disabled (try it out on the demo site!). On top of that, swup's a11y plugin[7] will automatically announce page visits to assistive technologies and will focus the new `

    ` element after each visit.

    3. Because now all I need for my fancy frontend is a bit of progressive JavaScript, I can choose whatever tool I like on the server, keeping complexity low and maintainability high. I can use SSGs like eleventy or Astro (the demo site is built using Astro!), I can use any CMS like WordPress or ProcessWire, or a framework like Laravel. And I don't have to maintain an additional node server for SSG!

    And all it took was 20 years! ;)

    [0] https://github.com/swup/swup

  • Animated transitions between sections
    2 projects | /r/webdev | 26 Jun 2023
  • How to use View Transitions in Hotwire Turbo
    10 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2023
    So what are View Transitions good for? In short, they allow adding animated page transitions. Although we already have several standard options to animate stuff on web pages (CSS Transitions, CSS Animations or the Web Animations API) and countless more options in particular JavaScript frameworks and libraries (Framer Motion for React, Vue Transitions, Svelte Transitions, Swup, Barba.js or Animate.css to name just a few), the web still lacks a generic, standards-based and easy-to-use solution to animate transitions between pages or during DOM updates. At least that’s what Google engineers say and I tend to agree with them.
  • Smooth Page Transitions in 2023
    4 projects | /r/webdev | 31 Jan 2023
    Is https://turbo.hotwired.dev/ my replacement? Or Swup.js?
  • Alpine.js
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2023
  • Is there any js library to add fluid "app-like" animations to a website?
    2 projects | /r/webdev | 28 Dec 2022
    I've used https://swup.js.org/. Simple to setup with one of the built in/contributed themes, haven't tried building a custom theme however. Also has a lot of good plugins for eg. accessibility. I used it in combination with Astro so a static site with a separate html file for each page.
  • Migrating my website from Gatsby to Astro
    13 projects | dev.to | 25 Nov 2022
    Like Gatsby or Next, Astro does not have any client side navigation. So each link click triggers a full page reload. Astro recommends to use Swup as mentioned here. Turbo is also another option though the team does not recommend it. I'm currently using Swup which I'll probably switch from or completely remove it as I have added TOC to MDX and clicking on a title is not redirecting the page to that particular section.
  • Which library for page transitions would you advise?
    2 projects | /r/webdev | 22 Nov 2022
    I've come across swup , HighwayJS and barba js
  • Htmx, WebAssembly, Rust, ServiceWorker Proof of Concept
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2022

turbo

Posts with mentions or reviews of turbo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Turbo Streaming Modals in Ruby on Rails
    4 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2024
    I also recommend checking out the docs for Stimulus and Turbo to familiarise yourself with all their features and the APIs used in this series.
    4 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2024
    In the above snippet, this refers to StreamElement, which is the custom element underpinning . The templateContent getter is defined by this element.
  • Htmx vs. React: A Complete Comparison – Semaphore
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
  • What is JSDoc and why you may not need typescript for your next project?
    8 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2024
    Turbo 8 remove typescript without using JSDOC
  • Coming to grips with JS: a Rubyist's deep dive
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Dec 2023
    Experiment using Turbo to drive front-end behavior: "Turbo 7.2.0 (currently in beta) allows you to define your own Stream actions which can be any JS code you want. By combining a custom Stream action or two with web components, you can essentially drive reactive frontend behavior from the backend stupidly easily. Loooove it! 😍 […] For a turnkey example, you could check out https://github.com/hopsoft/turbo_ready " —Jared White on The Spicy Web Discord
  • Improving a web component, one step at a time
    4 projects | dev.to | 16 Dec 2023
    This handles disconnection (as could be done by any destructive change to the DOM, like navigating with Turbo or htmx, I'm not even talking about using the element in a JavaScript-heavy web app) but not reconnection though, and we've exited early from the connectedCallback to avoid initializing the element twice, so this change actually broke our component in these situations where it's moved around, or stashed and then reinserted. To fix that, we need to always call addSparkles in connectedCallback, so move all the rest into an if, that's actually as simple as that… except that when the user prefers reduced motion, sparkles are never removed, so they keep piling in each time the element is connected again. One way to handle that, without introducing our housekeeping of individual timers, is to just remove all sparkles on disconnection. Either that or conditionally add them in connectedCallback if either we're initializing the element (including attaching the shadow DOM) or the user doesn't prefer reduced motion. The difference between both approaches is in whether we want the small animation when the sparkles appear (and appearing at new random locations). I went with the latter.
  • Mastering Rails Web Navigation with link_to and button_to Helpers - Part 2
    4 projects | dev.to | 22 Oct 2023
    If you think you have seen enough Rails magic, you are mistaken my friend. Rails have a new trick up its sleeve: Hotwire. And with the magical Turbo tool that comes with it, you can create modern, interactive web applications with minimal, or sometimes no JavaScript at all, providing users with an incredibly smooth experience.
  • Why you should choose HTMX for your next project
    2 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2023
    There is also Turbo and the frameworks who adopt them, Ruby on Rails, PHP Symphony and possibly others that solves the same issue in the same manner as HTMX. And the choice for HTMX is only a personal taste in this, but you should definitely learn about this, this is as cool as HTMX!
  • JavaScript First, Then TypeScript
    5 projects | dev.to | 15 Oct 2023
    Most controversially, the Turbo framework dropped TypeScript support altogether after assessing that strong typing was the culprit behind poor developer experience.
  • RailsWorld 2023: Hotwire Edition
    3 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2023
    You can find a demo video and more information here: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/1019

What are some alternatives?

When comparing swup and turbo you can also consider the following projects:

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

Turbolinks - Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster

highway - Highway - A Modern Javascript Transitions Manager

hotwire-rails - Use Hotwire in your Ruby on Rails app

inertia - Inertia.js lets you quickly build modern single-page React, Vue and Svelte apps using classic server-side routing and controllers.

highway - Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch

morphdom - Fast and lightweight DOM diffing/patching (no virtual DOM needed)

single-spa - The router for easy microfrontends

importmap-rails - Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling.

Alpine.js - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.

stimulus_reflex - Build reactive applications with the Rails tooling you already know and love.

turbo-rails - Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app