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Top 21 JavaScript virtual-dom Projects
- Project mention: Designing for KaiOS - Leveraging Kiro to build an app for the next billion mobile users | dev.to | 2025-12-03
Tree-shaking unused Preact features
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SurveyJS
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- Project mention: I Switched from Flutter and Rust to Rust and Egui | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-27
I really like Mithril.js (https://mithril.js.org/), which is, IMO, as close as it gets to web IMGUI. It looks a lot like React, but rendering happens manually, either on each event or with a manual m.redraw() call.
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htm
Hyperscript Tagged Markup: JSX alternative using standard tagged templates, with compiler support.
Project mention: Comptime.ts: compile-time expressions for TypeScript | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-06```
Where the `template!` macro instructs the engine how to translate the tokens into their JavaScript syntax and the `#[reactive]` macro converts the class member into a getter/setter that triggers a re-render calculation.
It would need to be adopted by TC39 of course and the expectation would be that, if provided at runtime, a JavaScript engine could handle the preprocessing however transpilers should be able to pre-compute the outputs so they don't need to be evaluated at runtime.
We sort of get around this today using template literals and eval, but it's janky. https://github.com/developit/htm
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neo
Neo.mjs: The first Agent Operating System for the web. A standalone, type-safe AI SDK combined with a multi-threaded, zero-build platform for building autonomous agents and desktop-class web apps. (by neomjs)
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diffhtml
diffHTML is a web framework that helps you build applications and other interactive content
Project mention: Show HN: I made a better DOM morphing algorithm | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-15 -
InfluxDB
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torus
Torus is an event-driven model-view UI framework for the web, focused on being tiny, efficient, and free of dependencies. (by thesephist)
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CalDOM
An agnostic, reactive & minimalist (3kb) JavaScript UI library with direct access to native DOM.
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safir
Lightweight JavaScript framework based on Template Literals vs CustomEvents features. Virtual DOM basic structure.
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Stream
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source virtual-dom projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preact | 38,222 |
| 2 | Mithril.js | 14,616 |
| 3 | htm | 8,954 |
| 4 | neo | 3,107 |
| 5 | hyperx | 1,015 |
| 6 | lowlight | 893 |
| 7 | diffhtml | 871 |
| 8 | mikado | 838 |
| 9 | refractor | 829 |
| 10 | vhtml | 808 |
| 11 | torus | 340 |
| 12 | panel | 276 |
| 13 | preact-worker-demo | 229 |
| 14 | virtual-dom | 213 |
| 15 | CalDOM | 190 |
| 16 | svg-radar-chart | 90 |
| 17 | Sekoia | 34 |
| 18 | tint | 9 |
| 19 | kReact | 6 |
| 20 | safir | 4 |
| 21 | fiddlehead | 2 |
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