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The best Solid alternatives

5 tools that do a similar job to Solid, 5 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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Solid

A JavaScript library for building user interfaces that updates only the parts of the page that change.

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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

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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

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    Preact

    Open source · MIT · ★ 39k

    A small (about 4kB) React-style library for building user interfaces in JavaScript.

    Best for: Web developers who already know React and want a lighter library; Projects where small bundle size matters, such as pages loaded over slow connections

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    Leptos

    Open source · MIT · ★ 21.5k

    A Rust framework for building fast web apps that run in the browser, on the server, or both.

    Best for: Rust developers who want to build full web apps in one language; Teams that want server-side rendering with browser interactivity in Rust

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    Inferno

    Open source · MIT · ★ 16.5k

    A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building user interfaces in the browser and on servers.

    Best for: Developers already familiar with React who want a React-like API; Projects that re-render frequently with real-time data or large DOM trees

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 Solid. We don't take payment for placement.