turbo VS Alpine.js

Compare turbo vs Alpine.js and see what are their differences.

turbo

Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turbopack and Turborepo. (by vercel)

Alpine.js

A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup. (by alpinejs)
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turbo Alpine.js
57 242
24,900 26,798
2.3% 1.8%
9.9 9.3
about 16 hours ago 2 days ago
Rust HTML
Mozilla Public License 2.0 MIT License
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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 2024-04-14.
  • Supermemory - ChatGPT for your bookmarks
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2024
    Supermemory has three main modules, managed by turborepo:
  • Next.js Shopify eCommerce Starter with Perfect Web Vitals 🚀
    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2024
    From a structural viewpoint, we use a monorepo (Turborepo) to manage packages, even though we currently have only one Next.js app. We chose this setup because it prepares us for future developments, which will include additional apps. This arrangement helps keep the packages well-separated and self-contained.
  • dev.to wrapped 2023 🎁
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2023
    # src Dockerfile: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/main/examples/with-docker/apps/web/Dockerfile FROM node:18-alpine AS alpine # setup pnpm on the alpine base FROM alpine as base ENV PNPM_HOME="/pnpm" ENV PATH="$PNPM_HOME:$PATH" RUN corepack enable RUN pnpm install turbo --global FROM base AS builder # Check https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/tree/b4117f9333da4138b03a546ec926ef50a31506c3#nodealpine to understand why libc6-compat might be needed. RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat RUN apk update # Set working directory WORKDIR /app COPY . . RUN turbo prune --scope=web --docker # Add lockfile and package.json's of isolated subworkspace FROM base AS installer RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat RUN apk update WORKDIR /app # First install the dependencies (as they change less often) COPY .gitignore .gitignore COPY --from=builder /app/out/json/ . COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-lock.yaml ./pnpm-lock.yaml COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-workspace.yaml ./pnpm-workspace.yaml RUN pnpm install # Build the project COPY --from=builder /app/out/full/ . COPY turbo.json turbo.json RUN turbo run build --filter=web # use alpine as the thinest image FROM alpine AS runner WORKDIR /app # Don't run production as root RUN addgroup --system --gid 1001 nodejs RUN adduser --system --uid 1001 nextjs USER nextjs COPY --from=installer /app/apps/web/next.config.js . COPY --from=installer /app/apps/web/package.json . # Automatically leverage output traces to reduce image size # https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/output-file-tracing COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/standalone ./ COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/static ./apps/web/.next/static COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/public ./apps/web/public CMD node apps/web/server.js
  • .dockerignore being ignored by docker-compose? no space left on device
    3 projects | /r/docker | 5 Dec 2023
    Following this example: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/tree/main/examples/with-docker/apps/web. Except I'm using pnpm. Edit Reddit Codeblocks are horrible and keeps removing all formatting.
  • How to Win Any Hackathon 🚀🤑
    7 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2023
    The Dockerfile might seem a bit complicated (it is), but the reason for that is mostly just turborepo and the need for good caching. Realistically, you will only need to change the last line, if at all. It is based on this awesome Github Issue.
  • PURISTA: Build with rimraf, esbuild, Turbo & git-cliff
    3 projects | dev.to | 11 Sep 2023
    PURISTA is organized in a monorepo. During the development and build process, Turbo is used to execute different tasks and steps on multiple packages with one command.
  • How I approach and structure Enterprise frontend applications after 4 years of using Next.js
    5 projects | dev.to | 9 Sep 2023
    Turbo repo
  • Vercel Integration and Next.js App Router Support
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2023
    Previously we mapped each Vercel project to a single Supabase project. With this release, we're introducing the concept of project 'Connections'. Supabase projects can have an unlimited number of Vercel Connections. This is especially useful for monorepos using Turborepo.
  • How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2023
    One detail I enjoy from this post is that sometimes you can just call a CLI[0]. It's easy to spend a lot of time figuring out how to expose some Rust/C code as a library for your language, but I like the simplicity of just compiling, shipping the binary and then calling it as a subprocess.

    Yes, there's overhead in starting a new process to "just call a function", but I think this approach is still underutilized.

    [0]: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/c0ee0dea7388d1081512c93...

  • App Router example repos
    6 projects | /r/nextjs | 30 Jun 2023

Alpine.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of Alpine.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.
  • Biometric authentication with Passkeys
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Mar 2024
    Alpine.js for reactive frontend
  • 🤓 My top 3 Go packages that I wish I'd known about earlier
    6 projects | dev.to | 1 Mar 2024
    ✨ In recent months, I have been developing web projects using GOTTHA stack: Go + Templ + Tailwind CSS + htmx + Alpine.js. As soon as I'm ready to talk about all the subtleties and pitfalls, I'll post it on my social networks.
  • Htmx Is Composable?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
    > But honestly, torn towards htmx but undecided.

    We are in the middle of migrating from our monster react application into server rendered pages (with jinja2). The velocity at which we are able to ship and the reduction of complexity has been great so far.

    Managing client side state for simple things like (is the dropdown open/closed), listening to keyboard events and such can be done with something like alpine-js [1] without all the baggage that something like react brings.

    It appears this is already the trend with JS frameworks too - with server side rendering being the new norm.

    [1] https://alpinejs.dev/

  • Pocketbase: Open-source back end in 1 file
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2024
  • 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.
  • What is your opinion about developers who do direct DOM manipulations instead of using modern web frameworks (like React, Vue, Angular) to achieve maximum performance?
    1 project | /r/webdev | 6 Dec 2023
    Direct DOM, but with a library. Specifically AlpineJS since it follows Vue closely in design practices allowing me to scale into a full web application if necessary (basically swapping to Vue takes minimal work). The Morph plugin is specifically what I like using.
  • Kicking the tires with NestJS and Hotwire: Part II
    2 projects | dev.to | 15 Nov 2023
    If you want more details on the initial setup I encourage you to take a look at the Part I that covers more of the initial implementation. For this portion, I added Prisma as an ORM, a frontend style library called Tachyons, and AlpineJS to handle any client-side interactions. I did this to avoid needing to add a client-side bundler to the build and instead just rely on plain old module imports to compose the frontend. This is now the default for Rails and it is quite nice to not need any additional build tools for the client.
  • Deveplop a simple GUI app by Wails use Golang
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023
    - [swallow-pywebview](https://github.com/rangwea/swallow-pywebview): Base on [pywebview](https://pywebview.flowrl.com/) using Python,the frontend base on [alpinejs](https://alpinejs.dev/) and [tailwindcss](https://tailwindcss.com/)。
  • How to Make an Animated Number Counter with Tailwind CSS
    1 project | dev.to | 3 Oct 2023
    If you’ve followed our other tutorials, you might be familiar with Alpine.js. It’s a lightweight JavaScript library that allows you to add interactivity to your site without writing a single line of JavaScript. It’s incredibly easy to use, and we’ll show you how to make the animation trigger when the user scrolls to it.
  • A First Look at HTMX and How it Compares to React
    6 projects | dev.to | 18 Sep 2023
    The approach is not new, essentially a variation of Knockout, Alpine, and similar "JS-in-HTML" approaches.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing turbo and Alpine.js you can also consider the following projects:

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

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

petite-vue - 6kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement

create-t3-app - The best way to start a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app

parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.

buck2 - Build system, successor to Buck

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

Turbolinks - Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster

hyperscript - Create HyperText with JavaScript.