A curated list of awesome resources related to software development with metaframeworks.
- Metaframeworks
- Metaframework-like tools
- Meta-metaframeworks
- Building parts
- AI tools
- Auxiliary tools
- Metaframework heroes
- Comparisons and benchmarks
- Metaframework PROs
- Metaframework CONs
- Security for metaframeworks
- Construction site
- OSS examples built with metaframeworks
- Newsletters
- Podcasts
- Live streams
- Next.js. React-based framework for building full-stack web applications.
- Remix / React Router. Web standards focused React metaframework.
- Nuxt. Vue-based framework for performant and production-grade full-stack web apps.
- Quasar. The enterprise-ready cross-platform Vue framework.
- SvelteKit. A framework for rapidly developing robust, performant web applications using Svelte.
- SolidStart. Fine-grained reactivity goes fullstack.
- TanStack Start. Full-stack React framework powered by TanStack Router.
- Analog. The fullstack Angular metaframework.
- Qwik City. Qwik-based set of tooling for building extremely performant full-stack applications.
- RedwoodJS. Batteries-included React- and RSC-based full-stack web framework for startups.
- Fresh. Deno-based full-stack web framework using Preact for server-rendered components.
- Enhance. HTML-first full-stack web framework focused on web components and progressive enhancement.
- Astro. The all-in-one web framework for content-driven websites with multi-framework components approach.
- Hono. Full-stack framework starting from the server-side with static site generation, client components, and file-based routing.
- Vike. Flexible Vite-based web-app scaffolder framework.
- Bâti. Vike-driven batteries-including scaffolder tool.
- Brisa. Bun-based full-stack web framework with progressive enhancement and web components philosophy.
- Gatsby. React-based full-stack web framework in love with GraphQL.
- 11ty. JAMstack swiss-army knife that had overgrown static websites.
- Docusaurus. Documentation-websites focused web framework with React under the hood.
- VitePress. Simple but powerful static site generator based on Vue.
- Inferno. React-compatible client-side and server-side rendering library with corresponding toolset included.
- Heretic. Marco-based framework combining both SSR and SPA approaches.
- Meteor. Frontend-agnostic opinionated full-stack framework.
- Observable Framework. Powerful static-site generator for data apps.
- Waku. Minimalist RSC-focused React framework.
- Refine. Opinionated React framework focused on building backoffice applications.
- Ruck. Buildless React web application framework for Deno.
- FullSoak. SSR-first & SSR-optimized buildless Deno-native framework.
- UmiJS. Extensible enterprise-level front-end application framework with MPA mode support.
- Blitz. Battle-tested libraries and conventions for shipping and scaling world wide Next.js-based applications.
- T3. The best way to start a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app if you dare to.
- SST. Config-driven full-stack application builder using more than 150 tools as building blocks.
- Payload. Open-source Next.js backend.
- JStack. The stack for building fast, lightweight and end-to-end typesafe Next.js apps.
- Accella. Astro-based MVC metaframework with integrated ORM.
- Vite. The build tool for the Web and the culprit of the metaframework revolution and lots of other crazy things.
- Nitro. The next generation server toolkit powering quite a lot of the aforementioned tools.
- Vinxi. The full-stack SDK for building JavaScript applications and frameworks.
- tRPC. TypeScript inference to boost productivity for your full-stack applications.
- Zod. Popular library for TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference.
- UnJS. Whole lotta things to build modern web applications.
- Tailwind CSS. A utility-first CSS framework loved by full-stack developers all over the world.
- Supabase. Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, Realtime subscriptions, Storage, and Vector embeddings for your full-stack apps.
- JSX. XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript used by multiple frameworks and metaframeworks.
- Bolt. StackBlitz-powered AI platform for prompt-based building, running, editing, and deploying full-stack web apps.
- Lovable. Your superhuman full stack AI engineer.
- v0. Next.js-, Tailwind-, and shadcn/ui-based AI app and component builder.
- svelte0. v0 but with Svelte instead of React.
- IDX. Googles full-stack AI builder not limited to web.
- StackBlitz. A platform for building full-stack applications online.
- Sonda. Universal bundle visualizer and analyzer for JavaScript applications.
- Knip. Declutterer for JS and TS projects.
- Storybook. Indispensable tool for building and testing components for web application UIs.
- Oxc. The family of extremely performant Rust-based JS tools.
- ESLint. Almighty static analysis for web applications.
- Ryan Carniato. The SolidStart guy.
- Brandon Roberts. The Analog guy.
- Rich Harris. The SvelteKit guy.
- Ben Holmes. The Astro guy.
- Ryan Florence. The Remix guy.
- Lee Robinson. The Next.js guy.
- Tanner Linsley. The TanStack Start guy.
- Tom Preston-Werner. The RedwoodJS guy.
- Daniel Roe. The Nuxt guy.
- Comparison of metaframeworks. Opinionated but insightful comparison table from Metaframeworks Weekly.
- js-framework-benchmark. A well-maintained comparison of the performance of a few popular JavaScript frameworks.
- State of JS 2024. Metaframeworks. Popular yearly survey results for metaframeworks ecosystem.
- Frontend frameworks, a 2024 year in review. A good few words about the metaframeworks ecosystem from Netlify.
- [Video] State of Meta Frameworks (2023). Insightfull round table with metaframeworks ambassadors.
- Sending My Respect to Next.js (and Vercel). A praise from Marc Grabanski, big vanilla-JS proponent.
- IndieHackerStacks. See what indie hackers use to build their products. Metaframeworks all around.
- Understanding JavaScript Meta-Frameworks: Redefining Modern Web Development. Thoughtful overview of the reasoning behind metaframeworks, future trends, and benefits.
- Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault. The title says it all.
- Digging the actual Next.js source code: A nightmare. Clickbaity title with lots of food for thoughts inside.
- The Rise (and Fall) and Rise Again of HTML Frameworks. The good people Jared White has opinions and insights to think about. Not necessarily a "con" but a good perspective in general.
- Over-Architecting in Web Design. Seasoned web developer Mánu Fosela on important issues with metaframeworks and business incentives behind them.
- You don't need Next.js. The good case study on migration away from Next.js to less fancy but more performant approach.
- Arcjet. SaC (security as code) toolset for modern [meta]frameworks.
- mit10s. Security platform for metaframework-based websites and web applications.
- [Video] SolidJS: Decomposing the Metaframework (2023). Ryan Carniato's talk at ViteConf dedicated to some deep metaframework mechanics.
- [Video] Build your own metaframework with Vinxi (2024). Vinxi inventor Dev Agrawal joins Jason Lengstorf to discuss and show how to build metaframeworks.
- How React Router works under the hood. Insightful research of React Router internals related to its metaframework alter ego.
- Real-world open-source projects built with Next.js 14 and App Router. A good way to take a deeper look at how them clever guys do that.
- Open TLC. SvelteKit-based CAT-Tool for everyone.
- 4m00se. SevelteKit-based form builder dapp on Rust-powered infrastructure with embeddable widget generation.
- Metaframeworks Weekly. A dedicated weekly newsletter with metaframeworks ecosystem news and insights.
- Bytes. A good ol' weekly JavaScript ecosystem news source with lots of metaframeworks news included.
- weeklyfoo. More generic weekly webdev news with frequent mentions of articles and tools related to metaframeworks.
- ConTejas Code. The metaframeworks people are often guests here. For patient listeners.
- PodRocket. The metaframeworks people are often guests here. For listeners with short attention spans.
- JS Party. A weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web — and the metaframeworks sometimes.
- Syntax. Not exactly a metaframeworks story but lots of useful ecosystem news.
- HTML All The Things. Deep discussions on all the things web dev.
- 2 Full 2 Stack. Great live coding content, by Nick Taylor, metaframeworks and their authors invited.
- CodeTV. AKA "Learn With Jason", by Jason Lengstorf, featuring metaframework topics and people sometimes.
- Ryan Carniato. Long thoughtful streams from the SolidStart author featuring interesting guests and controversial topic from time to time.