Nine (9) Open Source Java Script Frameworks

About a decade ago, the JavaScript developer community began to witness fierce battles emerging among JavaScript frameworks. In this article, I will introduce some of the most well-known of these frameworks. And it’s important to note that these are all open source JavaScript projects, meaning that you can freely utilize them under an open source license and even contribute to the source code and communities.

If you prefer to follow along as I explore these frameworks, you can watch my video.

Before getting started, though, it will be useful to learn some of the terminology JavaScript developers commonly use when discussing frameworks.

Now that we are clear about common terms, let’s explore what open source JavaScript frameworks are out there.

For context, here is the publicly available data on popularity based on NPM package downloads per framework, thanks to npm…