Top 21 JavaScript virtual-dom Projects

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1. Preact

   1 128 37,403 9.4 JavaScript

   ⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.

   

   Project mention: Progressive frustration | dev.to | 2025-04-18

   how do I retro-fit nextjs instructions on the Flagsmith website to fit Deno's fresh over preact?

2. Civic Auth

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   Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

   

3. Mithril.js

   2 54 14,163 8.8 JavaScript

   A JavaScript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications

   

   Project mention: Mithril.js: small (8.96 KB gzipped) modern client-side JavaScript framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-01

4. htm

   3 44 8,827 0.0 JavaScript

   Hyperscript Tagged Markup: JSX alternative using standard tagged templates, with compiler support.

   

   Project mention: I've been writing web backends and frontends since the 90s. Finally: declarative, dynamic markup done right | dev.to | 2024-06-05

   Because AI-UI is a JavaScript module, you specify the layout as a series of function calls. However, it also fully supports JSX and htm, so you can use a more familiar markup at the cost of the loss of some type safety. There's more about these choices in the AI-UI guide here.

5. neo

   4 23 2,929 10.0 JavaScript

   The application worker driven frontend framework (by neomjs)

   

   Project mention: Neo.mjs: A novel framework for high-performance web applications. | dev.to | 2024-10-01

   References: Neo.mjs Github Web Workers in Modern Web Apps

6. hyperx

   5 0 1,014 6.0 JavaScript

   🏷 - tagged template string virtual dom builder

   

7. diffhtml

   6 4 870 6.1 JavaScript

   diffHTML is a web framework that helps you build applications and other interactive content

   

8. mikado

   7 4 817 8.6 JavaScript

   Mikado is the webs fastest template library for building user interfaces.

   

9. CodeRabbit

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10. lowlight

    8 2 813 6.3 JavaScript

    Virtual syntax highlighting for virtual DOMs and non-HTML things

    

11. vhtml

    9 4 796 0.0 JavaScript

    Render JSX/Hyperscript to HTML strings, without VDOM 🌈

    

    Project mention: Please Stop Reinventing JSX | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-30

    If you like JSX as a templating language and you want to generate simple html strings then just use vhtml [1]. If you want something a little more powerful then hono/jsx is a decent choice [2].

    [1] https://github.com/developit/vhtml

    [2] https://hono.dev/docs/guides/jsx

12. refractor

    10 1 799 7.8 JavaScript

    Lightweight, robust, elegant virtual syntax highlighting using Prism

    

13. torus

    11 1 334 0.8 JavaScript

    Torus is an event-driven model-view UI framework for the web, focused on being tiny, efficient, and free of dependencies. (by thesephist)

    

14. panel

    12 1 276 0.0 JavaScript

    Web Components + Virtual DOM: web standards for powerful UIs (by mixpanel)

    

15. preact-worker-demo

    13 1 226 0.0 JavaScript

    Demo of preact rendering an entire app in a Web Worker.

    

16. virtual-dom

    14 1 210 0.0 JavaScript

    The foundation of HTML and SVG in Elm. (by elm)

    

17. CalDOM

    15 3 187 2.7 JavaScript

    An agnostic, reactive & minimalist (3kb) JavaScript UI library with direct access to native DOM.

    

18. svg-radar-chart

    16 1 87 6.4 JavaScript

    Generate SVG radar charts.

    

19. Sekoia

    17 4 33 0.0 JavaScript

    Sekoia.js - Reactivity Engine

    

20. tint

    18 1 8 1.5 JavaScript

    A natural template engine for the HTML DOM (by marcodpt)

    

    Project mention: The Merlin JavaScript Framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-16

21. kReact

    19 1 6 4.1 JavaScript

    Let's learn React by building react within 100 lines of code

    

22. safir

    20 4 3 5.1 JavaScript

    Lightweight JavaScript framework based on Template Literals vs CustomEvents features. Virtual DOM basic structure.

    

23. fiddlehead

    21 3 2 4.2 JavaScript

    A lightweight library to build user interfaces with JSX and hooks.

    

24. InfluxDB

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    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

    

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