Elm Alternatives

Elm is described as 'Aims to make web development more pleasant. Elm is a type-safe, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Elm for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Elm alternative is JavaScript, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Elm are Vue.js, Angular, React and Svelte.

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  1. JavaScript icon
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    JavaScript (sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but also used in many non-browser environments.

    62 JavaScript alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • AROS
    • Haiku
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  2. Vue.js icon
     108 likes

    Vue is a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. It builds on top of standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and provides a declarative and component-based programming model that helps you efficiently develop user interfaces, be it simple or complex.

    46 Vue.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
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  3. Angular icon
     116 likes

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

    83 Angular alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
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  4. React icon
     87 likes

    A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

    75 React alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
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  5. Svelte icon
     23 likes

    Svelte is a component framework that compiles declarative code into efficient JavaScript that updates the DOM with surgical precision. It is similar to React and Vue.js and offers a build process to optimize performance.

    37 Svelte alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  6. Vite icon
     12 likes

    A frontend tooling solution providing fast hot module replacement and instant server start with native ESM. It offers optimized builds with Rollup support, multi-page and library mode, along with rich features like TypeScript, JSX, and CSS, rounded off by universal plugins and fully typed APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
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  7. CoffeeScript icon
     76 likes

    CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all those awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

    28 CoffeeScript alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Online
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  8. SolidJS icon
     9 likes

    Solid is a purely reactive library. It was designed from the ground up with a reactive core. It's influenced by reactive principles developed by previous libraries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. PFCL icon
     1 like

    A small pure functional language. Functions are mathematics. Effects are plain data a host runs. Identity is the hash of the body.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Nue icon
     6 likes

    Nue JS is an exceptionally small (2.3kb minzipped) JavaScript library for building web interfaces. It is the core of the upcoming Nue ecosystem. It’s like Vue.js, React.js, or Svelte but there are no hooks, effects, props, portals, watchers, provides, injects, suspension, or...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
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  11. OCaml icon
     7 likes

    OCaml is an industrial strength programming language supporting functional, imperative and object-oriented styles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  12. ember.js icon
     23 likes

    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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    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
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