Frontend frameworks

A curated list of frontend JavaScript frameworks: UI libraries, full-stack frameworks, and tools for the browser.

React ecosystem

• React — Library for building user interfaces with components and a large ecosystem.
• Preact — Small (~3 kB) alternative to React with the same modern API.
• Next.js — React framework with server rendering, static export, and file-based routing.

Vue ecosystem

• Vue — Progressive framework for UIs: use as a library or scale up with tooling.
• Nuxt — Vue framework for full-stack apps, SSG, and SSR with great DX.
• shadcn-vue — Vue port of shadcn/ui; copy-paste component collection built on Radix Vue and Tailwind CSS that you own and customize directly in your codebase

Svelte ecosystem

• Svelte — Compiler-first framework: you write components, it outputs small, fast JavaScript that updates the DOM directly (no virtual DOM).
• SvelteKit — Full-stack Svelte framework with file-based routing, SSR, SSG, and API routes.

Angular

• Angular — Full platform for building single-page apps with TypeScript, CLI, and built-in routing/state.

Other frontend frameworks

• Qwik — Framework built for resumability and instant loading, at any app size.
• Solid — Declarative UI library with fine-grained reactivity and a React-like API.
• htmx — Use AJAX, WebSockets, and SSE directly in HTML via attributes; minimal JavaScript.