🚀10 Trending projects on GitHub for web developers - 24th December 2021

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1. GitHub Wrapped

Take a look back at all the contributions you as an individual made to the open-source community

GitHub logo ishandeveloper / github-wrapped

Take a look back at all the contributions you as an individual made to the open-source community


Generate your report


Why do I exist?

2020 has been a challenging year for all of us.

As the year is ending, we thought to take a look back at all the contributions you as an individual made to the open-source community, during these unprecedented times.

Also, since Spotify, Snapchat and other mass platforms have their own way of year wrap up, why not us?

githubwrapped.tech

Reports

This web app deployed at githubwrapped.tech will help you to generate yearly reports that contains your stats from the beginning of this year.

Including number of commits, stars etc.

Sample GitHub Wrapped Report

You can also save your report as an image using the 'Save Report' button and share it with the community or keep it as a memorandum :)


Project Structure

This project uses React.Js and the contents are bundled using webpack.

The contents in this project follow the following structure.

├───api
├───public
│   └───assets
└───src

2. Vitest

A blazing fast unit test framework powered by Vite.

GitHub logo vitest-dev / vitest

A Vite-native test framework. It's fast!

Vitest

A blazing fast unit test framework powered by Vite

Get involved!



⚠️ DISCLAIMER: Vitest is still in development and not stable yet. It's not recommended to use it in production.

Vitest requires Vite v2.7 and Node v14

Follow the Getting Started Guide or learn why we are building a new test runner.

Documentation

Read the documentation.

Features

3. Rakkas

Rakkas is a web framework powered by React and Vite that aims to have a developer experience similar to Next.js. Many of its features are also inspired by Svelte Kit.

GitHub logo rakkasjs / rakkasjs

Lightning fast Next.js alternative powered by Vite

Rakkas

Lightning fast Next.js alternative powered by Vite

Build Status npm type definitions MIT license React Vite Tweet about Rakkas

Read the guide | Try it in the browser


What is Rakkas?

Rakkas is a web framework powered by React and Vite that aims to have a developer experience similar to Next.js. Many of its features are also inspired by Svelte Kit. Important features are:

  •   Lightning fast development
  • 🖥️  Hassle free server-side rendering
  • 🚀  Support for deploying on serverless environments
  • 📄  Static site generation
  • 🇺🇳  Localizable URLs
  • 🔀  Rendering modes (pre-rendering, server-side, client-side)
  • ☸️  SPA-style client-side navigation
  • 📁  Intuitive file system-based routing
  • ⬇️  Simple but effective data fetching system
  • ⚙️  API routes to build and organize your backend

See the feature comparison with Next.js for other supported and planned features.

Is Rakkas right for you?

  • Although many features have been implemented, Rakkas is still in development. There will be breaking changes until we hit 1.0. As such, it's not yet

4. fuite

A tool for finding memory leaks in web apps

GitHub logo nolanlawson / fuite

A tool for finding memory leaks in web apps

fuite

fuite /fɥit/ French for "leak"

fuite is a CLI tool for finding memory leaks in web apps.

Introductory blog post

Tutorial video

Usage

npx fuite https://example.com
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This will check for leaks and print output to stdout.

By default, fuite will assume that the site is a client-rendered webapp, and it will search for internal links on the given page. Then for each link, it will:

  1. Click the link
  2. Press the browser back button
  3. Repeat to see if the scenario is leaking

For other scenarios, see scenarios.

How it works

fuite launches Chrome using Puppeteer, loads a web page, and runs a scenario against it. It runs the scenario some number of iterations (7 by default) and looks for objects that leaked 7 times (or 14 times, or 28 times). This might sound like a strange approach, but it's useful for cutting through the noise in memory analysis.

fuite

5. Theatre.js

Theatre.js is an animation library for high-fidelity motion graphics. It is designed to help you express detailed animation, enabling you to create intricate movement, and convey nuance.

GitHub logo AriaMinaei / theatre

Motion design editor for the web

Theatre.js

Theatre.js is an animation library for high-fidelity motion graphics. It is designed to help you express detailed animation, enabling you to create intricate movement, and convey nuance.

Theatre can be used both programmatically and visually.

You can use Theatre.js to:

  • Animate 3D objects made with THREE.js or other 3D libraries

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  • Animate HTML/SVG via React or other libraries

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  • Design micro-interactions

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  • Choreograph generative interactive art

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  • Or animate any other JS variable

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Documentation and Tutorials

The docs are at docs.theatrejs.com:

Community and support

Join our friendly community on Discord, follow the updates on twitter or write us an email.

Development and contributing

If you want to change the source of Theatre, have a look…

6. Molecule

Molecule is a lightweight Web IDE UI framework which is built with React.js and inspired by the VSCode.

GitHub logo DTStack / molecule

🚀 A lightweight Web IDE UI framework.

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Molecule

A lightweight Web IDE UI Framework

CI Codecov NPM downloads NPM version

中文 | English

The Molecule is a lightweight Web IDE UI framework which is built with React.js and inspired by the VSCode. We have designed the Extension APIs similar to the VSCode, to help developers extend the Workbench in an easier way. It's convenient to integrate the Molecule with React.js applications. It has been applied to many products in DTStack

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Features

  • Built-in the VSCode Workbench UI
  • Compatible with the VSCode ColorTheme
  • Customize the Workbench via React Component easily
  • Built-in Monaco-Editor Command Palette, Keybinding features
  • Support the i18n, built-in zhCN, and English
  • Built-in Settings, support to edit and extend via the Extension
  • Built-in basic Explorer, Search components, and support extending via the Extension
  • Typescript Ready

Installation

npm install @dtinsight/molecule
# Or
yarn add @dtinsight/molecule
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Basic Usage

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { MoleculeProvider,
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7. RFS

RFS is a unit resizing engine which was initially developed to resize font sizes. RFS is capable of rescaling basically every value for any css property with units, like margin, padding, border-radius or even box-shadow.

GitHub logo twbs / rfs

✩ Automates responsive resizing ✩

RFS logo

RFS is a unit resizing engine which was initially developed to resize font sizes (hence its abbreviation for Responsive Font Sizes). Nowadays RFS is capable of rescaling basically every value for any css property with units, like margin, padding, border-radius or even box-shadow.

The mechanism automatically calculates the appropriate values based on the dimensions of the browser viewport. It's available in one of your favourite preprocessors or postprocessor: Sass, Less, Stylus or PostCSS.

RFS

npm licence build

Demos

Advantages

  • No need to rescale paddings or margins anymore.
  • Text won't be chopped off in smaller viewports when RFS is applied to font sizes.
  • RFS will prevent the font size from rescaling…

8. Clipanion

Type-safe CLI library / framework with no runtime dependencies

GitHub logo arcanis / clipanion

Type-safe CLI library / framework with no runtime dependencies

Clipanion

Type-safe CLI library with no runtime dependencies

npm version Licence Yarn

Installation

yarn add clipanion
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Why

  • Clipanion supports advanced typing mechanisms
  • Clipanion supports nested commands (yarn workspaces list)
  • Clipanion supports transparent option proxying without -- (for example yarn dlx eslint --fix)
  • Clipanion supports all option types you could think of (including negations, batches, ...)
  • Clipanion offers a Typanion integration for increased validation capabilities
  • Clipanion generates an optimized state machine out of your commands
  • Clipanion generates good-looking help pages out of the box
  • Clipanion offers common optional command entries out-of-the-box (e.g. version command, help command)

Clipanion is used in Yarn with great success.

Documentation

Check the website for our documentation: mael.dev/clipanion.

Migration

You can use clipanion-v3-codemod to migrate a Clipanion v2 codebase to v3.

Overview

Commands are declared by extending from the Command abstract base class, and more specifically by implementing its execute method which will then be called by…

9. liqvid

A library for making interactive videos in React. For example an interactive coding demo inside a video.

GitHub logo liqvidjs / player

Library for interactive videos in React

10. ajquery.js

The fastest, most lightweight, least dependency jQuery alternative.

GitHub logo coolaj86 / ajquery.js

The fastest, most lightweight, least dependency jQuery alternative.

ajquery.js

The fastest, most lightweight, fewest dependency jQuery alternative.

Development Build: 145B (with comments)
Production Build: 103B (min + gz)

Install

<script src="https://unpkg.com/ajquery"></script>
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Example Usage

Provides modern, advanced CSS4-compatible query selection:

console.log("innerText:", $("p:nth-child(2").innerText);
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API

$(selector, [rootElement])

Selects the first matching HTML element only (or null):

const body = $("body");
const div1 = $("div", body);
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$$(selector, [rootElement])

Selects all matching elements (or an empty NodeList):

const head = $("head");
const stylesheets = $$('link[rel="stylesheet"]', head).map(console.log);
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Benchmarks

ajquery-benchmarks

Compatibility

Written entirely in modern ECMAScript 3, and directly transpilable into ES5, ES6 and beyond (up to ES11) via Webpack, Babel, Rollup, React Native, and AWS InfiniDash.

Works in…

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