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The best dnd-kit alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to dnd-kit, 8 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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dnd-kit

A toolkit for building drag and drop interfaces on the web, with adapters for several frameworks.

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    React DnD

    Open source · MIT · ★ 21.6k

    A React library for adding drag-and-drop behavior to components.

    Best for: React developers building interfaces with draggable items such as lists, boards or sortable elements; Teams already using React who want a shared drag-and-drop model

    Full review dnd-kit vs React DnD
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    interact.js

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12.9k

    JavaScript library for drag, drop, resize and multi-touch gestures in web pages.

    Best for: Web developers building drag-and-drop interfaces; Developers who need touch and mouse gesture support in one library

    Full review dnd-kit vs interact.js
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    Sortable

    Open source · MIT · ★ 31.2k

    A small JavaScript library for drag-and-drop reordering of lists, with no framework required.

    Best for: Web developers adding reorderable lists to a site or app; Teams using React, Vue, Angular, or similar frameworks who want a framework-specific wrapper

    Full review dnd-kit vs Sortable
  4. 4

    Muuri

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.9k

    A JavaScript library for building responsive grid layouts that can be sorted, filtered, and dragged.

    Best for: Front-end developers building card or photo grids that need drag and drop or filtering; Developers who want custom layouts beyond what CSS alone can do

    Full review dnd-kit vs Muuri
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    React-Grid-Layout

    Open source · MIT · ★ 22.5k

    A React component library for draggable, resizable grid layouts with responsive breakpoints.

    Best for: React developers building dashboards with movable panels; Teams migrating from v1 who can use the legacy wrapper for a smoother transition

    Full review dnd-kit vs React-Grid-Layout
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    Puck

    Open source · MIT · ★ 13.6k

    A visual drag-and-drop page editor you embed in your own React app.

    Best for: React developers adding a page builder to an existing app; Teams that want content editors to arrange pre-approved components visually

    Full review dnd-kit vs Puck
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    react-dropzone

    Open source · MIT · ★ 11k

    A React hook for building drag-and-drop file upload zones in web pages.

    Best for: React developers adding file upload to a web app; Projects that need a drop area with a click-to-select fallback

    Full review dnd-kit vs react-dropzone
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    Moveable

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.8k

    A JavaScript library that adds drag, resize, rotate and related handles to web page elements.

    Best for: Front-end developers building editors or interactive canvases in the browser; Teams using React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, or Lit who want a wrapper package for their framework

    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 dnd-kit. We don't take payment for placement.