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Svelte Native
Svelte Native
Svelte Native is a mobile application framework powered by Svelte, build mobile apps using the friendly web framework you already know. Build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps without web views. Get truly native UI and performance while sharing skills and code with the web. Use the full power of Svelte including transitions, stores, and reactivity. One of the smoothest development experiences available for mobile. Svelte Native is a new approach to building mobile applications using NativeScript. Where other JavaScript mobile development frameworks like React Native and NativeScript-Vue do the bulk of their work on the mobile device, Svelte Native shifts that work into a compile step that happens when you build your app. Instead of using techniques like virtual DOM diffing, Svelte writes code that surgically updates the native view widgets when the state of your app changes.Starting Price: Free -
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Ember.js
Ember.js
Ember.js is a productive, battle-tested JavaScript framework for building modern web applications. It includes everything you need to build rich UIs that work on any device. Some of the best development teams in the world have been iterating on their products for years with Ember. With scalable UI architecture baked-in from the start, you'll be working with the same patterns these organizations use every step of the way. Ember’s out-of-the-box experience has everything you need to start building on day one and keep shipping for years. Benefit from our years of experience to help your team be productive—faster. Ember CLI is the backbone of modern Ember apps, providing code generators to create new entities and putting the necessary files in the right place, every time. Ember apps come with a built-in development environment with fast rebuilds, auto-reload, and a test runner!Starting Price: Free -
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Framework7
Framework7
Framework7 is a free and open-source framework to develop mobile, desktop, or web apps with a native look and feel. It is also an indispensable prototyping tool to show a working app prototype as soon as possible in case you need to. With such a stunning set of UI components that Framework7 provides right from the box, it allows to create web apps, progressive web apps (PWA), and iOS and Android apps with a native look and feel. Framework7 paired with extra tools like Electron and NW.js allows to build native desktop apps. You can use any tools you love when working with Framework7. It doesn’t force you to use anything except plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Creating apps with Framework7 is easy as creating a website. And in addition to vanilla JavaScript library, Framework7 comes with Vue.js, React, and Svelte components to bring components-syntax, structured data, and data bindings with the power and simplicity of Vue.js, React, or Svelte.Starting Price: Free -
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NW.js
NW.js
NW.js (previously known as node-webkit) lets you call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all web technologies. A new way of writing native applications using web technologies, HTML5, CSS3, and WebGL. Full support for the features in the browser. Complete support for Node.js APIs and all third-party modules. Call Node.js modules directly from the DOM and web workers. Available on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. NW.js is based on Chromium and Node.js. Further, you can easily package a web application into a native application. It enables endless possibilities for writing apps. Easy to use, native UI library, frameless window, packaging and distribution, compatible with npm, debugger support, a rich documentation, kiosk mode, file dialogs, and media. Supports web components, drag & drop, WebGL, WebRTC, datalist, and CSS3. NW.js is also data persistent.Starting Price: Free -
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Electron
Electron
Thousands of organizations spanning all industries use Electron to build cross-platform software. Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application. Electron uses Chromium and Node.js so you can build your app with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Electron is an open-source project maintained by the OpenJS Foundation and an active community of contributors. Compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux, Electron apps build and run on three platforms. To get started with Electron, check out the resources available. Learn how to wrap your web app with Electron, access all the APIs, and generate installers. Also, Electron Fiddle lets you create and play with small Electron experiments.Starting Price: Free -
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Express
OpenJS Foundation
Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications. With a myriad of HTTP utility methods and middleware at your disposal, creating a robust API is quick and easy. Express provides a thin layer of fundamental web application features, without obscuring Node.js features that you know and love. Express has no notion of a database. This concept is left up to third-party Node modules, allowing you to interface with nearly any database. In Express, 404 responses are not the result of an error, so the error-handler middleware will not capture them. This behavior is because a 404 response simply indicates the absence of additional work to do; in other words, Express has executed all middleware functions and routes, and found that none of them responded.Starting Price: Free -
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Preact
Preact
Preact provides the thinnest possible Virtual DOM abstraction on top of the DOM. It builds on stable platform features, registers real event handlers and plays nicely with other libraries. Most UI frameworks are large enough to be the majority of an app's JavaScript size. Preact is different: it's small enough that your code is the largest part of your application. That means less JavaScript to download, parse and execute - leaving more time for your code, so you can build an experience you define without fighting to keep a framework under control. Preact is fast, and not just because of its size. It's one of the fastest Virtual DOM libraries out there, thanks to a simple and predictable diff implementation. We automatically batch updates and tune Preact to the extreme when it comes to performance. We work closely with browser engineers to get the maximum performance possible out of Preact.Starting Price: Free -
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Lit
Lit
Building on top of the Web Components standards, Lit adds just what you need to be happy and productive: reactivity, declarative templates and a handful of thoughtful features to reduce boilerplate and make your job easier. Every Lit feature is carefully designed with web platform evolution in mind. Weighing in at around 5 KB (minified and compressed), Lit helps keep your bundle size small and your loading time short. And rendering is blazing fast, because Lit touches only the dynamic parts of your UI when updating — no need to rebuild a virtual tree and diff it with the DOM. Every Lit component is a native web component, with the superpower of interoperability. Web components work anywhere you use HTML, with any framework or none at all. This makes Lit ideal for building shareable components, design systems, or maintainable, future-ready sites and apps.Starting Price: Free -
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Foundation
Foundation Framework
A Framework for any device, medium, and accessibility. Foundation is a family of responsive front-end frameworks that make it easy to design beautiful responsive websites, apps and emails that look amazing on any device. Foundation is semantic, readable, flexible, and completely customizable. We’re constantly adding new resources and code snippets, including these handy HTML templates to help get you started! Everything is semantic. You can have the cleanest markup without sacrificing the utility and speed of Foundation. You can build for small devices first. Then, as devices get larger and larger, layer in more complexity for a complete responsive design. You can customize your build to include or remove certain elements, as well as define the size of columns, colors, font size and more. Millions of designers and developers depend on Foundation. We have business support, training and consulting to help grow your product or service.Starting Price: Free -
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Solid
SolidJS
Solid stands on the shoulders of giants, particularly in React and Knockout. If you've developed using React Hooks, Solid will come naturally to you. In fact, more natural, since the Solid model is simpler, without the rules of the Hooks. Each component is executed once and it is the Hooks and bindings that are executed as many times as the dependencies are updated. Solid follows the same philosophy as React with one-way data flow, read/write segregation, and immutable interfaces. At the same time, it has a completely different implementation by dispensing with the Virtual DOM.Starting Price: Free -
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Inferno
Inferno
Inferno doesn't have a fully synthetic event system like React does. Inferno has a partially synthetic event system, instead opting to only delegate certain events (such as `onClick`). Inferno provides lifecycle events on functional components. This is a major win for people who prefer lightweight components rather than ES2015 classes. Inferno is able to use the React Dev Tools extensions for Chrome/Firefox/etc to provide the same level of debugging experience to the Inferno user via inferno-devtools. Inferno has a partial synthetic event system, resulting in better performance via delegation of certain events. Inferno provides lifecycle events on functional components. This is a major win for people who prefer lightweight components rather than ES2015 classes.Starting Price: Free -
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Koa
Koa
Koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. By leveraging async functions, Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware within its core, and it provides an elegant suite of methods that make writing servers fast and enjoyable. A Koa application is an object containing an array of middleware functions that are composed and executed in a stack-like manner upon request. Koa is similar to many other middleware systems that you may have encountered such as Ruby's Rack, Connect, and so on - however, a key design decision was made to provide high-level "sugar" at the otherwise low-level middleware layer. This improves interoperability, and robustness, and makes writing middleware much more enjoyable.Starting Price: Free -
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Phoenix Framework
Phoenix Framework
Build rich, interactive web applications quickly, with less code and fewer moving parts. Join our growing community of developers using Phoenix to craft APIs, HTML5 apps and more, for fun or at scale. Interact with users and know who is connected right now, across one or dozens of nodes, by using our built-in Channels and Presence technologies. Or try LiveView for a refreshing new way to develop real-time apps without the client-side complexities. At its core, Phoenix is a rock-solid web framework that improves the tried and true Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture with a fresh set of functional ideas. Phoenix puts the focus on your business domain, bringing you immediate productivity and long-term code maintainability.Starting Price: Free -
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UIkit
UIkit
Create websites on the fly with the drag and drop page builder. It generates perfect UIkit markup, tailored for your needs. Customize every aspect of UIkit visually, build and arrange your content, all in one comprehensive and intuitive interface. Build pages with ready-to-use elements made from UIkit components, like buttons, cards, accordions and much more. Modify the visual appearance of your site – including colors, fonts, margins and other style-related properties – with a sophisticated style customizer for UIkit.Starting Price: Free -
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NativeScript
NativeScript
Improve OSS repository management using multiple monorepo setups. Improved onboarding: tutorials for all flavors, linked from the home page. Improved Dialog handling with core-provided abstract APIs. Core: split out architectural level packages for advanced use-cases and scalability. This page will walk through installing everything you need to build your first NativeScript app. Setting up the Android development environment can be daunting if you are new to Android development, however following the next steps carefully will get you up and running in no time. Setting up the Android development environment can be daunting if you are new to Android development, however following the next steps carefully will get you up and running in no time.Starting Price: Free -
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Sencha Ext JS
Sencha
Sencha Ext JS is a comprehensive JavaScript application framework for building feature-rich, cross-browser-compatible web and mobile applications. It includes a library with 140+ high-performance customizable components, a set of tools and a powerful UI Framework. Key Features Rich UI Components – Includes a variety of pre-built UI elements such as grids and trees, menus and toolbars, forms and buttons, etc. Cross-platform compatibility - Supports major desktop and mobile web browsers including IE Firefox Chrome Safari and Opera. Data Packages – Includes data components to interact with various data sources including JSON, XML and database connections. Theming and Skinning - Allow easy skinning and theming of the UI with CSS. Development Tools - Includes an extensive set of development tools including a visual designer and debugger. Large Community - Has an active and large community of developers who provide support, extensions, etc.Starting Price: $1,295 one-time payment -
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QUnit
QUnit
The powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript testing framework. Easy, zero-configuration setup for any Node.js project and minimal configuration for browser-based projects. Tests can be run anywhere; Node, your browser, even inside a web worker. Test your code where it runs. Flexible APIs for custom assertions, runners, and reporters mean you can extend QUnit to fit your needs. Getting started with QUnit for Node.js projects is quick and easy. First, install the QUnit package using npm. You can now run the test suite through the QUnit CLI. It is recommended that you run the QUnit command via an npm script, which will find the QUnit command automatically from your local dependencies. Check out the API documentation to learn more about the QUnit APIs for organizing tests and making assertions.QUnit follows the Node.js Long-term Support (LTS) schedule and provides support for current, active LTS, and maintenance LTS releases.Starting Price: Free -
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Mocha
Mocha
Mocha runs in the browser. Every release of Mocha will have new builds of ./mocha.js and ./mocha.css for use in the browser. By adding an argument (usually named done) to it() to a test callback, Mocha will know that it should wait for this function to be called to complete the test. This callback accepts both an Error instance (or subclass thereof) or a falsy value; anything else is invalid usage and throws an error (usually causing a failed test). These reporters expect Mocha to know how many tests it plans to run before execution. This information is unavailable in parallel mode, as test files are loaded only when they are about to be run. In serial mode, tests results will “stream” as they occur. In parallel mode, reporter output is buffered; reporting will occur after each file is completed. In practice, the reporter output will appear in “chunks” (but will otherwise be identical). If a test file is particularly slow, there may be a significant pause while it’s running.Starting Price: Free -
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Windows Forms
Microsoft
Welcome to the Desktop Guide for Windows Forms, a UI framework that creates rich desktop client apps for Windows. The Windows Forms development platform supports a broad set of app development features, including controls, graphics, data binding, and user input. Windows Forms features a drag-and-drop visual designer in Visual Studio to easily create Windows Forms apps. Windows Forms is a UI framework for building Windows desktop apps. It provides one of the most productive ways to create desktop apps based on the visual designer provided in Visual Studio. Functionality such as drag-and-drop placement of visual controls makes it easy to build desktop apps. With Windows Forms, you develop graphically rich apps that are easy to deploy, update, and work while offline or while connected to the internet. Windows Forms apps can access the local hardware and file system of the computer where the app is running.Starting Price: Free -
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WinUI
Microsoft
The Windows UI Library (WinUI) is a native user experience (UX) framework for both Windows desktop and UWP applications. By incorporating the Fluent Design System into all experiences, controls, and styles, WinUI provides consistent, intuitive, and accessible experiences using the latest user interface (UI) patterns. With support for both desktop and UWP apps, you can build with WinUI from the ground up, or gradually migrate your existing MFC, WinForms, or WPF apps using familiar languages such as C++, C#, Visual Basic, and Javascript (via React Native for Windows).Starting Price: Free -
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Marionette
Marionette
Organize your app in terms of small Views. Marionette makes it easy to compose rich layouts out of small components. We've added tons of features from templateHelpers, to a declarative UI hash, that will keep you from ever wanting to go back. Share complex UI interactions across views. Behaviors are like mixins, without all of the pain associated with property collision. Decoupled communication between your application components with a powerful messaging system. Write classes with the same API as your views. Marionette Objects support features like extend, events, initialize, and more. Marionette community is home to the most welcoming and vibrant discussions in the Backbone ecosystem. Stop spending more time thinking about your framework than your app. Marionette will never get in the way of you and your code.Starting Price: Free -
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Axon Framework
AxonIQ
Purpose-built and open source, Axon Framework provides the building blocks for modern applications using event-driven architecture (EDA) powered by domain-driven design (DDD), event sourcing, and command query responsibility separation (CQRS). Our proven technology allows your team to evolve your application to reach business demands without unnecessary complexity.Starting Price: FREE -
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Sails
Sails
Build practical, production-ready Node.js apps in a matter of weeks, not months. Sails is the most popular MVC framework for Node.js, designed to emulate the familiar MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps, data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture. Sails makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. Building on top of Sails means your app is written entirely in JavaScript, the language you and your team are already using in the browser. Sails bundles a powerful ORM, Waterline, which provides a simple data access layer that just works, no matter what database you're using. Sails comes with blueprints that help jumpstart your app's backend without writing any code. Since Sails translates incoming socket messages for you, they're automatically compatible with every route in your Sails app. Sails offers commercial support to accelerate development and ensure best practices in your code.Starting Price: Free -
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Avalonia UI
Avalonia UI
Avalonia UI enables developers to create multi-platform apps with .NET. Write once, and run everywhere. Save time and focus on your product. Considered a spiritual successor to WPF, Avalonia UI provides a familiar developer experience, allowing you to leverage years of pre-existing knowledge and investments. rusted by JetBrains as the best framework for modernizing their WPF-based tools, used by >170,000 companies, including 431 on the Fortune 500 list. Our developer community has grown enormously as Avalonia UI has grown in popularity. Join us and be welcomed into our supportive and vibrant community.Starting Price: Free -
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Tekton
Tekton
Tekton is a cloud-native solution for building CI/CD systems. It consists of Tekton Pipelines, which provides the building blocks, and of supporting components, such as Tekton CLI and Tekton Catalog, that make Tekton a complete ecosystem. Tekton standardizes CI/CD tooling and processes across vendors, languages, and deployment environments. It works well with Jenkins, Jenkins X, Skaffold, Knative, and many other popular CI/CD tools. Tekton abstracts the underlying implementation so that you can choose the build, test, and deploy workflow based on your team’s requirements. Tekton lets you create CI/CD systems quickly, giving you scalable, serverless, cloud native execution out of the box.Starting Price: Free -
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Vaadin
Vaadin
Vaadin is a web app development platform for Java. It helps you build reliable web apps with great UX faster than before. Building an enterprise web app involves a lot of moving pieces. Vaadin simplifies the process with an integrated web app development platform for Java backends. Vaadin comes with all the components, frameworks, and tools you need to build a reliable, secure, app with great UX. Research shows that good user experience (UX) increases employee engagement, helps digital transformations to succeed, and avoids costly mistakes. The Vaadin Design System provides UI components and UX patterns that help you build consistently good user experiences in every app. Better yet, you can use it to build a custom design system for your organization. Vaadin comes with 45+ UI components that help you build consistent UIs fast. The theme can be customized to match your brand. Vaadin components work with screen readers and assistive devices.Starting Price: $139 per month -
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Helidon
Helidon
Helidon is a cloud-native, open‑source set of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty. Helidon Níma is the first Java microservices framework based on virtual threads. Helidon is designed to be simple to use, with tooling and examples to get you going quickly. Since Helidon is simply a collection of Java libraries running on a fast Netty core, there is no extra overhead or bloat. Helidon supports MicroProfile and provides familiar APIs like JAX-RS, CDI, and JSON-P/B. Our implementation runs on our fast Helidon Reactive WebServer. Helidon Reactive WebServer provides a modern functional programming model and runs on top of Netty. Lightweight, flexible, and reactive, the Helidon WebServer provides a simple-to-use and fast foundation for your microservices. With support for health checks, metrics, tracing, and fault tolerance, Helidon has what you need to write cloud-ready applications that integrate with Prometheus, Jaeger/Zipkin, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Dropwizard
Dropwizard
Dropwizard is a Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services. Dropwizard pulls together stable, mature libraries from the Java ecosystem into a simple, lightweight package that lets you focus on getting things done. Dropwizard has out-of-the-box support for sophisticated configuration, application metrics, logging, operational tools, and much more, allowing you and your team to ship a production-quality web service in the shortest time possible. Dropwizard straddles the line between being a library and a framework. Its goal is to provide performant, reliable implementations of everything a production-ready web application needs. Because this functionality is extracted into a reusable library, your application remains lean and focused, reducing both time-to-market and maintenance burdens. Because you can’t be a web application without HTTP, Dropwizard uses the Jetty HTTP library to embed an incredibly tuned HTTP server directly into your project.Starting Price: Free -
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restify
restify
A Node.js web service framework optimized for building semantically correct RESTful web services ready for production use at scale. restify optimizes for introspection and performance and is used in some of the largest Node.js deployments on Earth. Running at scale requires tracing problems back to their origin by separating noise from the signal. restify is built from the ground up with post-mortem debugging in mind. Staying true to the spec is one of the foremost goals of the project. You will see references to RFCs littered throughout GitHub issues and the codebase. restify is used by some of the industry's most respected companies to power some of the largest deployments of Node.js on planet Earth—the future of Node.js REST development. Setting up a server is quick and easy. Like many other Node. js-based REST frameworks, restify leverages a Sinatra-style syntax for defining routes and the function handlers that service those routes.Starting Price: Free -
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hapi
hapi
Build powerful, scalable applications, with minimal overhead and full out-of-the-box functionality, your code, your way. Developed initially to handle Walmart’s Black Friday sales, hapi continues to be the proven choice for enterprise-grade backend needs. When you install hapi, every single line of code you get has been verified. You never have to worry about some deep dependency being poorly maintained (or handed over to someone sketchy). hapi is the only leading node framework without any external code dependencies. hapi requires the most secure settings to manage, control, and distribute code, including 2FA for all contributors. Every hapi component comes with the most secure defaults out of the box. Along with protecting server load with payload limits and request timeouts, hapi blocks error messages that could leak information or echo back exploits. The most comprehensive authorization and authentication API available in a Node framework.Starting Price: Free