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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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Leaflet
Leaflet
Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Weighing just about 42 KB of JS, it has all the mapping features most developers ever need. Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance, and usability in mind. It works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms, can be extended with lots of plugins, has a beautiful, easy-to-use, and well-documented API, and a simple, readable source code that is a joy to contribute to. Leaflet doesn't try to do everything for everyone. Instead, it focuses on making the basic things work perfectly. Hardware acceleration on mobile makes it feel as smooth as native apps. Utilizing CSS3 features to make panning and zooming really smooth. Smart polyline/polygon rendering with dynamic clipping and simplification makes it very fast. The modular build system for leaving out features you don't need. Tap delay elimination on mobile.Starting Price: Free -
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Moment.js
Moment.js
A JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. Moment was designed to work both in the browser and in Node.js. All code should work in both of these environments, and all unit tests are run in both of these environments. Moment.js has been successfully used in millions of projects. As of September 2020, Moment gets over 12 million downloads per week! Moment has evolved somewhat over the years, but it has essentially the same design as it did when it was created in 2011. Moment works well on Internet Explorer 8 and higher. Some libraries are split into modules, plugins, or companion libraries. Some libraries use the ECMAScript Intl API for locales, time zones, or both. Some libraries still provide their own locale and time zone files as Moment and Moment-Timezone do. Because different locales define week of year numbering differently, Moment.js added options to get/set the localized week of the year.Starting Price: Free -
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ASP.NET Core
Microsoft
Millions of developers use or have used ASP.NET 4.x to create web apps. ASP.NET Core is a redesign of ASP.NET 4.x, including architectural changes that result in a leaner, more modular framework. ASP.NET Core 3.x and later can only target .NET Core. Generally, ASP.NET Core is composed of .NET Standard libraries. Libraries written with .NET Standard 2.0 run on any .NET platform that implements .NET Standard 2.0. There are several advantages to targeting .NET Core, and these advantages increase with each release. Tag Helpers enable server-side code to participate in creating and rendering HTML elements in Razor files. Built-in support for multiple data formats and content negotiation lets your web APIs reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices.Starting Price: Free -
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Omniscient
Omniscient
Do fast top-down rendering of views while thinking functional programming. Allow your views to be predictable, naturally separated, and composable, but still performant. Omniscient is to React as memoize is to the Fibonacci function. Functional programming for UIs. Memoization for stateless React components. Top-down rendering of components (unidirectional data flow). Favors immutable data (with Immutable.js). Encourages small, composable components, and shared functionality through mixins. Natural separation of concern. Components only deal with their own piece of data. Efficient and centrally defined. In its simplest form, an Omniscient component is a Stateless React Component, but more optimized. Omniscient is just as much a way to think when you are building applications as a library itself. As Omniscient is wrapped in a UMD you can use it many different ways, through CommonJS, AMD, or just through the window object.Starting Price: Free -
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Parsley
Parsley
Parsley, the ultimate JavaScript form validation library. Validating frontend forms has never been so powerful and easy. Like no other form validation library, simply write in English your requirements inside your form HTML tags, Parsley will do the rest! No need to write even a single JavaScript line for simple form validation. Parsley is now smarter, it automatically detects your forms' modifications and adapts its validation accordingly. Simply add, remove or edit fields, Parsley validation will follow! Parsley is shipped with more than a dozen useful validators. If not enough, use the awesome Parsley extra Ajax validator or tons of other extended validators provided by the community. Parsley strongly focuses on UI and UX. Override almost every Parsley default behavior to fit your exact needs. Still ships almost bug-free. Parsley is strongly tested and aims to work on every browser (including IE8).Starting Price: Free -
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Popper
Popper
Positioning tooltips and popovers are difficult. Popper is here to help! Given an element, such as a button, and a tooltip element describing it, Popper will automatically put the tooltip in the right place near the button. It will position any UI element that "pops out" from the flow of your document and floats near a target element. The most common example is a tooltip, but it also includes popovers, drop-downs, and more. All of these can be generically described as a "popper" element. Click on the dots to place the tooltip. There are 12 different placements to choose from. Pure CSS poppers will not be prevented from overflowing clipping boundaries, such as the viewport. It will get partially cut off or overflows if it's near the edge since there is no dynamic positioning logic. When using Popper, your popper will always be positioned in the right place without needing manual adjustments.Starting Price: Free -
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Three.js
Three.js
Three.js is a JavaScript 3D library. The aim of the project is to create an easy-to-use, lightweight, cross-browser, general-purpose 3D library. The current builds only include a WebGL renderer but WebGPU (experimental), SVG and CSS3D renderers are also available in the examples. To actually be able to display anything with three.js, we need three things, scene, camera, and renderer, so that we can render the scene with the camera. In addition to the WebGLRenderer, Three.js comes with a few others, often used as fallbacks for users with older browsers or for those who don't have WebGL support for some reason. Create a loop that causes the renderer to draw the scene every time the screen is refreshed (on a typical screen this means 60 times per second). Anything you want to move or change while the app is running has to go through the animate loop. You can of course call other functions from there.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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Polymer
Polymer
The Polymer library provides a set of features for creating custom elements. These features are designed to make it easier and faster to make custom elements that work like standard DOM elements. Similar to standard DOM elements, Polymer elements can be instantiated using a constructor or document creation element, configured using attributes or properties, populated with internal DOM inside each instance, responsive to property and attribute changes, styled with internal defaults or externally, and responsive to methods that manipulate its internal state. Registering an element associates a class with a custom element name. The element provides callbacks to manage its lifecycle. Polymer also lets you declare properties, to integrate your element's property API with the Polymer data system. Shadow DOM provides a local, encapsulated DOM tree for your element. Polymer can automatically create and populate a shadow tree for your element from a DOM template.Starting Price: Free -
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ASP.NET
Microsoft
Blazor is a feature of ASP.NET for building interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor gives you real .NET running in the browser on WebAssembly. .NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications. ASP.NET supports industry standard authentication protocols. Built-in features help protect your apps against cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF). ASP.NET provides a built-in user database with support for multi-factor authentication and external authentication with Google, Twitter, and more.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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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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JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
SenchaLabs
The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating interactive data visualizations for the web. The best way to start is to take a look at the demos page. Each demo has a See the Example Code link that takes you to the code for that example. The actual library code is included in the HTML file by building the lib each time with only the needed requirements taken from the name of the visualization and the build.json file. The required library code is built by the build.py file. In order to create a new visualization you need to set up the server environment to include test JavaScript files for your new visualization and also you need to add the new visualization files into the Source folder.Starting Price: Free -
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PixiJS
PixiJS
PixiJS' strength is speed. When it comes to 2D rendering, PixiJS is the fastest there is. Friendly, feature-rich API lets PixiJS take care of the fundamentals whilst you focus on producing incredible multiplatform experiences. PixiJS is and always will be open source, with a large and supportive community pushing its growth and evolution. Thousands of award-winning sites and experiences are being made with PixiJS by leading content authors around the world. PixiJS will always be free and open-source but with your support, we can grow faster together. Interactive, visually compelling content on desktop, mobile, and beyond, all reached with a single codebase to deliver transferable experiences. Beautiful anti-aliased text at native and retina resolutions means that Pixi copy is as easy on the eye as it is on any other delivery method. Organize your objects in hierarchical trees, with parent-child relationships.Starting Price: Free -
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Velocity.js
Velocity.js
Velocity is an animation engine with the same API as jQuery's animate. It works with and without jQuery. It's incredibly fast, and it features color animation, transforms, loops, easings, SVG support, and scrolling. It is the best of jQuery and CSS transitions combined. Download Velocity, include it on your page and replace all instances of jQuery's animate with velocity. You will immediately see a performance boost across all browsers and devices, especially on mobile. Velocity works everywhere, back to IE8 and Android 2.3. Under the hood, it mimics jQuery's queue, and thus interoperates seamlessly with jQuery's animate, fade, and delay. Since Velocity's syntax is identical to animate, your code doesn't need to change. JavaScript and jQuery are falsely conflated. JavaScript animation, which Velocity uses, is fast; it's jQuery that's slow. Although Velocity works alongside jQuery, it uses its own animation stack that delivers its performance.Starting Price: Free -
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JsPHP
JsPHP
The free open-source JsPHP library. The JsPHP website is a 100% free community resource that provides a collaborative platform and web-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building an open-source JavaScript library called JsPHP that provides an implementation of the PHP API for JavaScript environments. An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a tool for writing computer programs, and that's what the JsPHP website is a tool for creating and testing software. In the JsPHP IDE registered users can edit the JavaScript functions in the JsPHP library and can also write code to test that those functions are working properly or to test how well those functions perform (how fast they run when they are executed on the computer). If you're just starting out with learning JavaScript then helping out at JsPHP is the perfect way for you to get started because we have lots of beginner-level work that needs to be done that you could help us with.Starting Price: Free -
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Modernizr
Modernizr
Modernizr tells you what HTML, CSS, and JavaScript feature the user’s browser has to offer. It’s a collection of superfast tests, or “detects” as we like to call them, which run as your web page loads, then you can use the results to tailor the experience to the user. All web developers come up against differences between browsers and devices. That’s largely due to different feature sets, the latest versions of the popular browsers can do some awesome things which older browsers can’t, but we still have to support the older ones. Modernizr makes it easy to deliver tiered experiences and make use of the latest and greatest features in browsers that support them, without leaving less fortunate users high and dry. Modernizr is a small piece of JavaScript code that automatically detects the availability of next-generation web technologies in your user's browsers. Modernizr uses feature detection to allow you to easily tailor your user's experience.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Aurelia
Aurelia
Aurelia's standards-based, unobtrusive style makes it the only framework that empowers you to build components using vanilla JavaScript or TypeScript. If you know modern JS and HTML, there's little more to learn to build even the most complex apps. At the core of Aurelia is a high-performance, reactive system, capable of batching DOM updates in a way that leaves other frameworks, and their virtual DOMs, in the dust. Experience consistent, scalable performance, no matter how complex your UI. Aurelia enables powerful reactive binding to any object. By using adaptive techniques Aurelia selects the most efficient way to observe each property in your model and automatically syncs your UI and your state with best-in-class performance. State management, internationalization and validation - all official plugins from the core team. CLI, VS Code plugin, and Chrome debugger - optional tools to enhance development.Starting Price: Free -
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Dojo Toolkit
Dojo Toolkit
A JavaScript toolkit that saves you time and scales with your development process. Provides everything you need to build a Web app. Language utilities, UI components, and more, all in one place, designed to work together perfectly. The Dojo Toolkit Reference Guide is designed to be an in-depth resource regarding the Dojo Toolkit. The Reference Guide is a community effort and can be contributed to by anyone who has a CLA in place with the Dojo Foundation. An extensive set of widgets (user interface components) and the underlying system to support them. It is built fully on-top of the Dojo core. Various tools that support the rest of the toolkit, like being able to build, test and document code.Starting Price: Free -
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RequireJS
RequireJS
RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader. It is optimized for in-browser use, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code. This setup assumes you keep all your JavaScript files in a "scripts" directory in your project. To take full advantage of the optimization tool, it is suggested that you keep all inline script out of the HTML, and only reference require.js with a requirejs call like so to load your script. All of them map to loading some/path/some/module.js. Ideally we could choose the CommonJS syntax, since it is likely to get more common over time, and we want to reuse code.Starting Price: Free -
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Kotlin
Kotlin
Easy to pick up, so you can create powerful applications immediately. Compatible with the Java ecosystem. Use your favorite JVM frameworks and libraries. Share application logic between web, mobile, and desktop platforms while keeping an experience native to users. Save time and get the benefit of unlimited access to features specific to these platforms. Kotlin has great support and many contributors in its fast-growing global community. Enjoy the benefits of a rich ecosystem with a wide range of community libraries. Help is never far away — consult extensive community resources or ask the Kotlin team directly. Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile is an SDK for iOS and Android app development. It offers all the combined benefits of creating cross-platform and native apps. Maintain a single codebase for networking, data storage, analytics, and the other logic of your Android and iOS apps.Starting Price: Free -
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Visual Basic
Microsoft
Visual Basic is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. Using Visual Basic makes it fast and easy to create type-safe .NET apps. Visual Basic focuses on supplying more of the features of the Visual Basic Runtime (microsoft.visualbasic.dll) to .NET Core and is the first version of Visual Basic focused on .NET Core. Many portions of the Visual Basic Runtime depend on WinForms and these will be added in a later version of Visual Basic. .NET is a free, open-source development platform for building many kinds of apps. With .NET, your code and project files look and feel the same no matter which type of app you're building. You have access to the same runtime, API, and language capabilities with each app. A Visual Basic program is built up from standard building blocks. A solution comprises one or more projects. A project in turn can contain one or more assemblies. Each assembly is compiled from one or more source files.Starting Price: Free -
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Ruby
Ruby Language
Wondering why Ruby is so popular? Its fans call it a beautiful, artful language. And yet, they say it’s handy and practical. Since its public release in 1995, Ruby has drawn devoted coders worldwide. In 2006, Ruby achieved mass acceptance. With active user groups formed in the world’s major cities and Ruby-related conferences filled to capacity. Ruby-Talk, the primary mailing list for discussion of the Ruby language, climbed to an average of 200 messages per day in 2006. It has dropped in recent years as the size of the community pushed discussion from one central list into many smaller groups. Ruby is ranked among the top 10 on most of the indices that measure the growth and popularity of programming languages worldwide (such as the TIOBE index). Much of the growth is attributed to the popularity of software written in Ruby, particularly the Ruby on Rails web framework.Starting Price: Free -
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Oxygene
RemObjects Software
Pascal is more relevant today than ever, and modern Pascal implementations such as Oxygene have a lot to bring to the table. Oxygene is a powerful general-purpose programming language, designed to let developers create all imaginable kinds of projects on a wide variety of platforms. To achieve this, it provides a combination of language features that ease the development processes, from basic object-oriented language concepts found in most modern languages (such as the concept of classes with methods, properties, and events) to sophisticated specialized language features that enable and ease specific development tasks (such as creating safe, multi-threaded applications), many of those unique to Oxygene. All of the provided features are based on the foundation of Object Pascal and stay true to the language design paradigms that make Pascal great, readable, and discoverable. As an object-oriented language, most code written in Oxygene lives in "classes".Starting Price: $199 one-time payment -
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TypeScript
TypeScript
TypeScript adds additional syntax to JavaScript to support a tighter integration with your editor. Catch errors early in your editor. TypeScript code converts to JavaScript, which runs anywhere JavaScript runs: In a browser, on Node.js or Deno and in your apps. TypeScript understands JavaScript and uses type inference to give you great tooling without additional code. TypeScript was used by 78% of the 2020 State of JS respondents, with 93% saying they would use it again. The most common kinds of errors that programmers write can be described as type errors: a certain kind of value was used where a different kind of value was expected. This could be due to simple typos, a failure to understand the API surface of a library, incorrect assumptions about runtime behavior, or other errors.Starting Price: Free
