Gem.js Alternatives

Gem.js is described as 'Gives you a way to create modular, composable web components and modular, composable styles in pure-javascript. It also includes a set of extensible web components for building visual user interfaces and styling web applications' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Gem.js for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows, Linux and Web-based apps. The best Gem.js alternative is Angular, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gem.js are React, ember.js, Backbone.js and KnockoutJS.

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  1. Angular icon
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    Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
     
  2. ember.js icon
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    You can write less code with Ember's Handlebars integrated templates that update automatically when the underlying data changes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • JavaScript
     
  3. Backbone.js icon
     16 likes

    Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  4. KnockoutJS icon
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    Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g.

    72 KnockoutJS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Ext JS icon
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    Ext JS is a JavaScript library for building interactive web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting. Ext includes interoperability with jQuery and Prototype.

    41 Ext JS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. Hono.dev icon
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    Hono - means flame 🔥 in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • npm
     
  7. RiotJS icon
     5 likes

    Riot lets you build user interfaces with custom tags using simple and enjoyable syntax. It uses a virtual DOM similar to React but faster. Riot is very tiny compared to industry standards. We think there is a clear need for another UI library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  8. Polymer icon
     30 likes

    Polymer is a library that uses the latest web technologies to let you create custom HTML elements. Build anything from a button to a complete application as an encapsulated, reusable element that works across desktop and mobile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Fresh is a next generation web framework, built for speed, reliability, and simplicity. Some stand out features:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Opa icon
     10 likes

    Opa is an open source, simple and unified platform for writing web applications. All aspects are directly written in Opa: Frontend code, backend code, database queries and configuration. And everything is strongly statically typed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Preact icon
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    Preact is a fast UI framework with the same same ES6 API as React but just 3kB in size. Virtual DOM Components and high React compatibility help with familiarity and re-usability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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