Gea
Shares rank 18 of 21 JavaScript frameworks by recommenders
Recommended for building UI that stays close to plain JavaScript and compiles to fast native code; critics say it is new, lacks some features, and needs clearer documentation.
Recommended for building UI that stays close to plain JavaScript and compiles to fast native code; critics say it is new, lacks some features, and needs clearer documentation.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 60%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Close to plain JavaScript
“it doesn't fight the language. Stores are classes. Computed values are getters.”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough” “I believe we cover an important base of idiomatic JavaScript right now”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough” “I wanted to build something that felt _native_ to the language.”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough” - Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough”
Simple, few concepts to learn
“Gea's syntax requires you to write less code, while also requiring you to know less concepts”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough” “In the end Gea is basically as simple as a plain old JavaScript class”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough” Fast performance
“I was originally hesitant about the performance of proxies, too, but they turned out to be great.”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough” “This is one of the main reasons why Gea is so performant”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough” “Gea is 3.5x faster than Perry”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Speed gains small or none
“But all of those metrics differ by something like 1 millisecond”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough” “So at best, Gea is a tie on speed with Solid, the bundle is bigger, and even time to first paint is a little worse.”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “JavaScript Is Enough”
Other JavaScript frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other JavaScript frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 21 JavaScript frameworks, rankedWhat people said
25 of the 26 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Gea is 3.5x faster than Perry”
“My impression right now is: potentially VERY interesting, but needs clearer technical documentation about the portability/limitations”
“Most libs from npm compile fine, including Hono, and we are now working on Fastify and MongoDB native driver.”
“So, it's an ambitious project with a real team behind it, with commercialization on the horizon.”
“It takes only a couple of CLI commands to get it running.”
“We instead transpile TypeScript and CSS into native code, so the UI you build with web technologies look and behave identical on a microcontroller.”
“That you should is an argument I don't think you've successfully made yet.”
“Gea works best with the compiler”
“In my envisaged use cases, this could often lead to problems (with, e.g., large data sets).”
“I was originally hesitant about the performance of proxies, too, but they turned out to be great.”
“Gea's syntax requires you to write less code, while also requiring you to know less concepts”
“But all of those metrics differ by something like 1 millisecond”
“A framework like this one or WebComponents that forces me to use JS's crazy OO mechanics is a non-starter.”
“In the end Gea is basically as simple as a plain old JavaScript class”
“I wanted to build something that felt _native_ to the language.”
“Gea is frankly very new, and for example doesn't ship a solution for suspenses”
“So at best, Gea is a tie on speed with Solid, the bundle is bigger, and even time to first paint is a little worse.”
“it doesn't fight the language. Stores are classes. Computed values are getters.”
“I believe we cover an important base of idiomatic JavaScript right now”
“Gea tries to be as close to plain old JavaScript as possible”
“This is one of the main reasons why Gea is so performant”
“I expect a lot of AI-assisted coding sessions to happen with Gea”
“Thank you for your project, it's elegant!”
“I believe JavaScript as the language has a great solution to this. If you pass an object to a function, it's two-way bound, and if you pass a primitive, it's one-way bound.”
“proceeds to introduce Stores and Components”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.