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Stimulus

A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have, by Basecamp
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What is Stimulus?

Stimulus is a JavaScript framework with modest ambitions. It doesn't seek to take over your entire front-end—in fact, it's not concerned with rendering HTML at all.
Stimulus is a tool in the Javascript UI Libraries category of a tech stack.
Stimulus is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Stimulus's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Stimulus?

Companies
32 companies reportedly use Stimulus in their tech stacks, including Festalab, Transcripto, and Stamped Technologies.

Developers
63 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Stimulus.

Stimulus Integrations

Pros of Stimulus
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No Javascript on Backend
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Simple and easy to start with
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Balance between Front End and BackEnd
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Easy way to add functionality to rails views

Stimulus Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Stimulus?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
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Stimulus's Followers
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