The Best 50 jQuery Alternatives

  • DHTMLX

    DHTMLX is a JavaScript library that provides a comprehensive set of UI widgets and makes building web apps easy. Develop killer web apps with DHTMLX!

    Freemium Web

  • Zepto.js

    Zepto is a minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers with a largely jQuery-compatible API.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Dojo Toolkit

    Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross-platform...

    Free Open Source Web

  • Umbrella JS

    Intuitive and Documented It is strongly influenced by jquery with many similar methods so you'll feel at ease developing with Umbrella. However there are also some...

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

  • Underscore.js

    Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but...

    Free Open Source Web

  • MooTools

    MooTools (My Object-Oriented Tools) is a lightweight, object-oriented, web-application framework for JavaScript.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Lo-Dash

    Lo-Dash is a drop-in replacement for Underscore.js that delivers performance improvements, bug fixes, and additional features. Lo-Dash’s performance is gained by...

    Free Open Source Web

  • total.js

    Free web application framework for building Web sites and Web applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Durandal

    Durandal is a cross-device, cross-platform client framework written in JavaScript and designed to make Single Page Applications (SPAs) easy to create and maintain.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Ractive.js

    Ractive.js is different. It solves some of the biggest headaches in web development – data binding, efficient DOM updates, event handling – and does so with almost no...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Harp Platform

    The Harp Platform is the easiest way for anyone to create an exceptional website. Landing Pages, galleries, blogs, e-commerce, domains, hosting, analytics, 24/7 support - all included.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Prototype

    Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Prototype provides various functions for developing JavaScript...

    Free Open Source Web

  • Harp

    Harp is a production-ready web server. Rapidly build static sites and client-side applications using , and more—no configuration necessary.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Chaplin

    Chaplin is an architecture for JavaScript applications using the Backbone.js library. Chaplin addresses Backbone’s limitations by providing a lightweight and flexible...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Enyo

    Enyo is a JavaScript app framework enabling developers build native-quality HTML5 apps that run everywhere — from phones and tablets to PCs and TVs.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

  • MontageJS

    MontageJS is a modern, full stack HTML5 framework designed to create single-page applications—fast! MontageJS uses time-tested design patterns and software principles...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Serenade.js

    Serenade.js is a client side framework built on the MVC pattern. It makes it simple to create rich client side applications by freeing you from having to keep the DOM up...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • hapi

    A rich framework for building web applications and services. hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • flatiron

    flatiron is an adaptable framework for building modern web applications. It was built from the ground up for use with Javascript and Node.js.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux