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The best Aurelia alternatives

6 tools that do a similar job to Aurelia, 6 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Aurelia

A JavaScript framework for building single-page web apps, from the Aurelia 1 line.

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    React

    Open source · MIT · ★ 252k

    A JavaScript library for building interactive user interfaces out of reusable components.

    Best for: Developers building interactive web interfaces with JavaScript; Teams adding React gradually to an existing project, as the README describes

    Full review Aurelia vs React
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    Angular

    Open source · MIT · ★ 101k

    A TypeScript framework and CLI for building large web and mobile-style apps.

    Best for: Developers building larger, multi-screen web applications; Teams that want a full framework with built-in tooling rather than assembling many libraries

    Full review Aurelia vs Angular
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    Svelte

    Open source · MIT · ★ 88.5k

    A web UI framework whose compiler turns components into plain JavaScript that updates the page directly.

    Best for: Developers who want to build interactive websites with less boilerplate; Teams building web apps who prefer a compiler-based approach

    Full review Aurelia vs Svelte
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    ice.js

    Open source · MIT · ★ 18.6k

    A React-based framework for building web apps, with routing, SSR/SSG and a plugin system.

    Best for: Developers who already know React and want a ready-made project structure; Teams building sites that need server-side or build-time rendering

    Full review
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    Framework7

    Open source · MIT · ★ 18.8k

    An MIT-licensed HTML framework for building mobile-style iOS and Android app interfaces.

    Best for: Developers who already know HTML, CSS and JavaScript and want to build mobile-style apps; Teams building iOS- or Android-looking interfaces without learning native UI toolkits

    Full review
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    Rails

    Open source · MIT · ★ 58.8k

    A Ruby web framework for building database-backed web apps using the MVC pattern.

    Best for: Developers building database-backed web applications in Ruby; Teams who want a full set of built-in components instead of assembling many libraries

    Full review

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Aurelia. We don't take payment for placement.