🆚 Alpine.js vs. React

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 React is much more popular than Alpine.js.
🌎 React is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Alpine.js is more popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Dominica.

Alpine.js

React

Type

Frontend framework

About

Alpine.js is a minimal JavaScript framework that lets developers add reactive behavior directly in HTML markup using attributes and magic properties without needing a build tool.

It has a small footprint, supports declarative syntax with directives like x-data, x-if, x-show etc., includes global stores for shared state, and works without a virtual DOM.

React is a popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces, created by Facebook.

It allows developers to create reusable UI components, offers JSX markup support, a virtual DOM, hooks, and is often used as a base for other full-stack frameworks such as Next.js or Remix.

Headquarters

Buffalo, New York, United States

Menlo Park, California, United States

Website

alpinejs.dev #392,041

reactjs.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The React frontend framework is 9 times more popular than Alpine.js.

Total websites

Market share

Frontend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

React is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Alpine.js is more popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Dominica.

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