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The best UI-Router alternatives

4 tools that do a similar job to UI-Router, 4 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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UI-Router

A routing library for AngularJS apps that maps URLs to nested app states and views.

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    TanStack Router

    Open source · MIT · ★ 15.3k

    A type-safe router for React and other web UIs, with an optional full-stack framework built on it.

    Best for: React developers who want type-checked routes and URL parameters; Teams building single-page apps that need schema-validated search params

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    XState

    Open source · MIT · ★ 30.4k

    A JavaScript/TypeScript library for managing app and workflow logic with state machines and actors.

    Best for: Frontend developers managing complex UI flows with many interacting states; Teams modeling multi-step workflows or processes in backend code

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    Immer

    Open source · MIT · ★ 29k

    A JavaScript library that lets you update immutable state by writing ordinary mutating code.

    Best for: JavaScript developers who find hand-written immutable updates verbose or error-prone; Teams managing nested state in Redux-style reducers

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    axum

    Open source · MIT · ★ 27.7k

    A Rust library for routing HTTP requests and writing request handlers, built on Tokio.

    Best for: Rust developers building HTTP APIs or web services; Teams already using the Tokio async runtime

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to UI-Router. We don't take payment for placement.