Very small JavaScript frameworks?

• htmx-demo

  8 256 4.9 Java

  Very simple demonstration of the use of htmx with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf.

However, I'd also like to make my apps have more dynamic, "single page app" (SPA) like features. I've been doing some experiments with htmx.org and Spring Boot/Thymeleaf and it's been fantastic so far (I'm posting my experiments at https://github.com/wiverson/htmx-demo).

• Mithril.js

  49 13,877 3.4 JavaScript

  A JavaScript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications

  

htmx.org offers integration with a very, very concise scripting language (hypersrcipt). I also found https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js which looks like it's just a bit more like something like React/Angular but massively stripped down.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• htmx

  565 32,656 9.6 JavaScript

  </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

  

However, I'd also like to make my apps have more dynamic, "single page app" (SPA) like features. I've been doing some experiments with htmx.org and Spring Boot/Thymeleaf and it's been fantastic so far (I'm posting my experiments at https://github.com/wiverson/htmx-demo).

• hotwire-rails

  98 960 3.2 Ruby

  Discontinued Use Hotwire in your Ruby on Rails app

  

htmx.org makes it really easy to just shoot HTML-over-the-wire directly from my Spring Boot. Basically I'm able to do SPA without having to mess around with the npm/React/Angular/etc toolchain. So far it's working very well.

• Svelte

  632 76,402 9.9 JavaScript

  Cybernetically enhanced web apps

  

• w2ui

  5 2,610 9.1 JavaScript

  UI widgets for modern apps. Data table, forms, toolbars, sidebar, tabs, tooltips, popups. All under 120kb (gzipped).

If you are already using jquery , take a look at https://github.com/vitmalina/w2ui

• wro4j

  1 471 6.8 Java

  Free and Open Source Java project which brings together almost all the modern web tools: JsHint, CssLint, JsMin, Google Closure compressor, YUI Compressor, UglifyJs, Dojo Shrinksafe, Css Variables Support, JSON Compression, Less, Sass, CoffeeScript and much more. In the same time, the aim is to keep it as simple as possible and as extensible as possible in order to be easily adapted to application specific needs.

  

How about wro4j? it offers you lots of javascript/css preprocessing without node. I so want a node-free TypeScript/JSX compiler....

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• frontend-maven-plugin

  12 4,163 6.9 Java

  "Maven-node-grunt-gulp-npm-node-plugin to end all maven-node-grunt-gulp-npm-plugins." A Maven plugin that downloads/installs Node and NPM locally, runs NPM install, Grunt, Gulp and/or Karma.

There is always this excelent maven plugin: https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin that pretty much installs and runs whatever you need in the front end. It's perfect when you don't have control over whats installed in the company CI server.

• Alpine.js

  242 26,798 9.3 HTML

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

  

Between htmx, webjars and the wro4j plugin mentioned above, I'm feeling pretty pumped about doing front-end web dev agin. I'm finding a few other frameworks, like unpoly and alpine that look interesting as well.

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