* JS is possibly the largest programming language community in the world
* There are a lot of shortcomings in "the web platform" for app-style development
* Most JS developers are primarily developers in another language with a stronger culture and set of ideas/idioms
Combine these things and you get .NET developers creating C# flavored JS frameworks, Ruby developers creating Railsish frameworks, etc. Then you have interactions of those ideas, where it's like C# and Ruby had a baby as a JavaScript MVC framework. :-)
There are clones for most popular template rendering systems, and would be surprised if there wasn't similar as a whole application framework.
Do a search of https://npmjs.com/ for a framework you want a synonym to, and you will probably find it.
For me, some tools simple ring better in the JS way than others... if it's too cobbled, and relies on strange markup behaviors I like it less. If it's really class centric I tend to like it less, though ES7 classes and React isn't too bad. It just depends on your likes.
I really don't like seeing certain patterns in JS (factories and di/ioc) as they simply aren't needed and only add complexity.
It's basically the cambrian explosion.