The best shaders alternatives

rea

morluto/rea

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

Choose rea if…

• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you want the more widely starred option (455.1k)
• you specifically need agent-skills or ai

Shares cli, javascript, mcp, react with shaders.

ai

vercel/ai

The AI Toolkit for TypeScript. From the creators of Next.js, the AI SDK is a free open-source library for building AI-powered applications and agents

Choose ai if…

• you want the more widely starred option (27.9k)
• you specifically need anthropic or artificial-intelligence

Shares javascript, react, svelte, vue with shaders.

ark

chakra-ui/ark

Unstyled, accessible UI components for your design System. Works in React, Vue, Solid, and Svelte.

Choose ark if…

• you specifically need components or design-system

Shares react, solid, svelte, vue with shaders.

canvas-ui

DavidHDev/canvas-ui

A library of creative canvas components. Real HTML with WebGL effects running over it. React, Vue, Svelte, vanilla.

Choose canvas-ui if…

• you specifically need animation or canvas

Shares react, shaders, svelte, vue with shaders.

zag

chakra-ui/zag

Build your design system in React, Solid, Vue, Svelte or Vanilla. Powered by finite state machines

Choose zag if…

• you specifically need a11y or accessibility

Shares react, solid, svelte, vue with shaders.

OverlayScrollbars

KingSora/OverlayScrollbars

A javascript scrollbar plugin that hides the native scrollbars, provides custom styleable overlay scrollbars, and preserves the native functionality and feel.

Choose OverlayScrollbars if…

• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you specifically need angular or custom

Shares javascript, react, solid, svelte with shaders.

tinybase

tinyplex/tinybase

A reactive data store & sync engine.

Choose tinybase if…

• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you specifically need agent-skills or crdt

Shares javascript, react, solid, svelte with shaders.

ionic-framework

ionic-team/ionic-framework

A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Choose ionic-framework if…

• you want the more widely starred option (52.8k)
• you specifically need angular or capacitor

Shares javascript, react, vue with shaders.

bit

teambit/bit

AI-powered development workspaces with reusable components, architectural clarity and zero overhead.

Choose bit if…

• you want the more widely starred option (18.5k)
• you specifically need ai or collaboration

Shares javascript, react, vue with shaders.

js-lingui

lingui/js-lingui

🌍 📖 A readable, automated, and optimized (2 kb) internationalization for JavaScript

Choose js-lingui if…

• you specifically need i18n or internationalization

Shares javascript, react, vue with shaders.

searchkit

searchkit/searchkit

React + Vue Search UI for Elasticsearch & Opensearch. Compatible with Algolia's Instantsearch and Autocomplete components.

Choose searchkit if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you specifically need algolia or angular

Shares javascript, react, vue with shaders.

ai

TanStack/ai

🤖 Type-safe, provider-agnostic TypeScript AI SDK for streaming chat, tool calling, agents, and multimodal apps across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, React, Vue, Svelte, and Solid.

Choose ai if…

• you specifically need ai or ai-agents

Shares react, svelte, vue with shaders.