The Best 50 jQuery Alternatives

  • Derby

    MVC framework making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • YUI

    YUI is a free, open source JavaScript and CSS library for building richly interactive web applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Agility.js

    Agility.js is an MVC library for Javascript that lets you write maintainable and reusable browser code without the verbose or infrastructural overhead found in other MVC...

    Free Open Source Web

  • Batman.js

    Batman.js is a framework for building rich web applications with CoffeeScript or JavaScript. App code is concise and declarative, thanks to a powerful system of view...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Espresso Framework

    Scalable Web Framework aimed at Speed and Simplicity

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • DOMtastic

    Small & fast DOM and event library for modern browsers. Having the same familiar API as jQuery (but without the extra "weight" of modules like $.ajax...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • SocketStream

    SocketStream is a fast, modular Node.js web framework dedicated to building realtime single-page apps

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Spine.js

    Build Awesome JavaScript MVC Applications

    Free Open Source Web

  • Thorax

    An opinionated, battle-tested Backbone + Handlebars framework to build large scale web applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Featherlight.js

    Featherlight is a very lightweight jQuery lightbox plugin. It's simple yet flexible and easy to use. Featherlight has minimal css and uses no inline styles, it...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Chrome OS Self-Hosted Wordpress

  • qooxdoo

    qooxdoo is a universal JavaScript framework that enables you to create applications for a wide range of platforms. With its object-oriented programming model you build...

    Free Open Source Web

  • Bliss JS

    No lock-in, no wrapper objects Designed to work with Vanilla JS, not replace it. Light as a feather Only 3KB minified & gzipped! Chaining without prototype...

    Free Open Source Web

  • PowerShell Pipeworks

    PowerShell Pipeworks is a Framework for making Sites and Services with Windows PowerShell. It is designed to do for web development what PowerShell has done for IT...

    Free Windows

  • AJS

    AJS is a ultra lightweight JavaScript library that is around 2 years old. It is inspired by MochiKit, but differs by being small and expressive. The current version is...

    Free Open Source Web

  • AmplifyJS

    AmplifyJS is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Amplify's goal is to simplify all forms of data handling by...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Flight

    A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework for assigning behavior to DOM nodes.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Geddy

    Geddy is built on the same MVC principles that many popular frameworks are based on. Every Geddy app has its models, controllers, and views as well as config files and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • JayData

    JayData is a standards-based, cross-platform JavaScript library and a set of practices to access and manipulate data from various online and offline sources.

    Free Open Source Web

  • LocomotiveJS

    ocomotive is a web framework for Node.js. Locomotive supports MVC patterns, RESTful routes, and convention over configuration, while integrating seamlessly with any...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Matador

    matador is a clean, organized framework for node.js architected to suit mvc enthusiasts.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux