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πŸš€10 Trending projects on GitHub for web developers - 22nd January 2021

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1. Naming cheatsheet

Naming things is hard. This sheet attempts to make it easier.. Although these suggestions can be applied to any programming language, I will use JavaScript to illustrate them in practice.

GitHub logo kettanaito / naming-cheatsheet

Comprehensive language-agnostic guidelines on variables naming. Home of the A/HC/LC pattern.

Naming cheatsheet

Naming cheatsheet



Naming things is hard. This sheet attempts to make it easier.

Although these suggestions can be applied to any programming language, I will use JavaScript to illustrate them in practice.

English language

Use English language when naming your variables and functions.

/* Bad */
const primerNombre = 'Gustavo'
const amigos = ['Kate', 'John']

/* Good */
const firstName = 'Gustavo'
const friends = ['Kate', 'John']
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Like it or not, English is the dominant language in programming: the syntax of all programming languages is written in English, as well as countless documentations and educational materials. By writing your code in English you dramatically increase its cohesiveness.

Naming convention

Pick one naming convention and follow it. It may be camelCase…





2. Twin

Twin blends the magic of Tailwind with the flexibility of css-in-js (emotion, styled-components and goober) at build time.

GitHub logo ben-rogerson / twin.macro

πŸ¦Ήβ€β™‚οΈ Twin blends the magic of Tailwind with the flexibility of css-in-js (emotion, styled-components, solid-styled-components, stitches and goober) at build time.

Twin examples Twin examples

The magic of Tailwind with the flexibility of css-in-js.

Total Downloads Latest Release Discord

Open in StackBlitz


Style jsx elements using Tailwind classes:

import 'twin.macro'
const Input = () => <input tw="border hover:border-black" />
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Nest Twin’s tw import within a css prop to add conditional styles:

import tw from 'twin.macro'

const Input = ({ hasHover }) => (
  <input css={[tw`border`, hasHover && tw`hover:border-black`]} />
)
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Or mix sass styles with the css import:

import tw, { css } from 'twin.macro'

const hoverStyles = css`
  &:hover {
    border-color: black;
    ${tw`text-black`}
  }
`
const Input = ({ hasHover }) => (
  <input css={[tw`border`, hasHover && hoverStyles]} />
)
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Styled Components

You can also use the tw import to create and style new components:

import tw
…
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3. Supabase

Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We’re building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools.

GitHub logo supabase / supabase

The open source Firebase alternative. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.

Supabase

Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We're building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools.

  • Hosted Postgres Database. Docs
  • Authentication and Authorization. Docs
  • Auto-generated APIs
  • Functions
    • Database Functions. Docs
    • Edge Functions Docs
  • File Storage. Docs
  • AI + Vector/Embeddings Toolkit. Docs
  • Dashboard

Supabase Dashboard

Watch "releases" of this repo to get notified of major updates.

Watch this repo

Documentation

For full documentation, visit supabase.com/docs

To see how to Contribute, visit Getting Started

Community & Support

  • Community Forum. Best for: help with building, discussion about database best practices.
  • GitHub Issues. Best for: bugs and errors you encounter using Supabase.
  • Email Support. Best for: problems with your database or infrastructure.
  • Discord. Best for: sharing your applications and hanging out with the community.

How it works

Supabase is a combination of open source tools. We’re building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade, open source…





4. Polaris

Polaris React is a component library designed to help developers create the best experience for merchants who use Shopify.

GitHub logo Shopify / polaris

Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.

Polaris

Build. Contribute. Evolve. Shape the merchant experience for Shopify’s core product, the admin.

storybook npm version CI PRs Welcome

Status Owner Help
Active @shopify/polaris New issue

About this repo

The shopify/polaris repository is an intergalactic monorepo made up of NPM packages, VSCode extensions, and websites.

polaris/
β”œβ”€β”€ documentation               # Documentation for working in the monorepo
β”œβ”€β”€ polaris-for-vscode          # VS Code extension for Polaris
β”œβ”€β”€ polaris-icons               # Icons for Polaris
β”œβ”€β”€ polaris-react               # Components for @shopify/polaris package
β”œβ”€β”€ polaris-tokens              # Design tokens for Polaris
β”œβ”€β”€ polaris.shopify.com         # Documentation website
└── stylelint-polaris           # Rules for custom property usage and mainline coverage
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Commands

Install dependencies and build workspaces

pnpm install && pnpm build
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Run a command

One workspace

Run commands from a selected workspace using turbo run <command> --filter=<workspace>... flag.

Command Runs
pnpm turbo run dev --filter=@shopify/polaris Open the react component storybook
pnpm turbo run dev --filter=polaris.shopify.com Open polaris.shopify.com NextJS site

All workspaces

Run commands across all workspaces…


5. Amplication

Amplication is an open‑source development tool. It helps professional Node.js developers develop quality Node.js applications without spending time on repetitive coding tasks.. Amplication auto-generates fully functional apps based on TypeScript and Node.js.

GitHub logo amplication / amplication

πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ The Only Production-Ready AI-Powered Backend Code Generation

Instantly generate production-ready .NET and Node.js backend apps πŸš€

dashboard

Introduction

Amplication is a robust, open-source development platform designed to revolutionize the creation of scalable and secure .NET and Node.js applications. Amplication is the only AI platform turning ideas into production-ready code in a few minutes. We automate your backend applications development, ensuring consistency, predictability, and adherence to the highest standards with code that’s built to scale

Our user-friendly interface fosters seamless integration of APIs, data models, databases, authentication, and authorization. Built on a flexible, plugin-based architecture, Amplication allows effortless customization of the code and offers a diverse range of integrations.

With a strong focus on collaboration, Amplication streamlines team-oriented development, making it an ideal choice for groups of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. Our platform enables you to concentrate on your business logic, while we handle the heavy lifting.

Experience the fastest way to develop .NET and Node.js…





6. Sapper

Sapper is a framework for building web applications of all sizes, with a beautiful development experience and flexible filesystem-based routing.

GitHub logo sveltejs / sapper

The next small thing in web development, powered by Svelte

sapper

Sapper is deprecated in favor of its successor, SvelteKit, which we recommend using instead.

Financial Support

To support Sapper, SvelteKit, and the rest of the Svelte ecosystem, please consider contributing via OpenCollective.

License

MIT





7. React Tracked

State usage tracking with Proxies. Optimize re-renders for useState/useReducer, React Redux, Zustand and others.

GitHub logo dai-shi / react-tracked

State usage tracking with Proxies. Optimize re-renders for useState/useReducer, React Redux, Zustand and others.

logo

React Tracked

CI npm size discord

State usage tracking with Proxies. Optimize re-renders for useState/useReducer, React Redux, Zustand and others.

Documentation site: https://react-tracked.js.org

Introduction

Preventing re-renders is one of performance issues in React Smaller apps wouldn't usually suffer from such a performance issue, but once apps have a central global state that would be used in many components. The performance issue would become a problem. For example, Redux is usually used for a single global state, and React-Redux provides a selector interface to solve the performance issue. Selectors are useful to structure state accessor, however, using selectors only for performance wouldn't be the best fit. Selectors for performance require understanding object reference equality which is non-trival for beginners and experts would still have difficulties for complex structures.

React Tracked is a library to provide so-called "state usage tracking." It's a technique to track property access of a state object and only triggers re-renders if…


8. xstyled

A utility-first CSS-in-JS framework built for React.

GitHub logo styled-components / xstyled

A utility-first CSS-in-JS framework built for React. πŸ’…πŸ‘©β€πŸŽ€βš‘οΈ

xstyled

A utility-first CSS-in-JS framework built for React.

License npm package npm downloads CircleCI codecov Code style

npm install @xstyled/styled-components styled-components
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See the documentation at xstyled.dev for more information about using xstyled!

Quicklinks to some of the most-visited pages:

Example

import { x } from '@xstyled/styled-components'
function Example() {
  return (
    <x.div p={{ _: 3, md: 6 }} bg="white" display="flex" spaceX={4}>
      <x.div flexShrink={0}>
        <x.img h={12} w={12} src="/img/logo.svg" alt="xstyled Logo" />
      </x.div>
      <x.div>
        <x.h4
          fontSize={{ _: 'md', lg: 'xl' }}
          fontWeight="medium"
          color="black"
        >
          xstyled
        </x.h4
…
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9. react-rnd

A resizable and draggable component for React.

GitHub logo bokuweb / react-rnd

πŸ–± A resizable and draggable component for React.

A resizable and draggable component for React.

Build Status Build Status

Table of Contents

Screenshot

https://codesandbox.io/s/xpm699v4lp

Live Demo

Storybook

Storybook

CodeSandbox

Edit y3997qply9
CodeSandbox(with default)
CodeSandbox(with size and position)
CodeSandbox(with typescript)
CodeSandbox(with hooks)

Install

  • use npm
npm i -S react-rnd
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  • use yarn
yarn add react-rnd
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Usage

Example with default

<Rnd
  default={{
    x: 0,
    y: 0,
    width: 320,
    height: 200,
  }}
>
  Rnd
</Rnd>
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Example with position and size

<Rnd
  size={{ width: this.state.width,  height: this.state.height }}
  position={{ x: this.state.x, y: this.
…
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10. Whirl

CSS loading animations with minimal effort!

GitHub logo jh3y / whirl

CSS loading animations with minimal effort!

Build Status Netlify Status

Whirl

CSS loading animations with minimal effort!

Whirl

whirl is a curation of CSS loading animations(whirls! πŸ˜…). It started as a drop in CSS file to get easy animations using :pseudo elements. It's now a collection of loading animations to use, take inspiration from, change and do what you want with πŸ‘

No CSS distro?

It's inefficient. It's likely an app will only use one or two loaders. Pulling them all into an app would be overkill. Most projects use some form of bundling making it possible to import a single loader's styles.

Usage

You've got different options here.

You can install whirl and import the styles you want. You get both CSS and SASS files πŸ‘

npm i @jh3y/whirl
yarn add @jh3y/whirl
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Alternatively, you can grab the CSS or SASS and change to your needs. There's a dynamic link in the demo. Or visit the latest versions tag branch πŸ‘

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Tanvir Shaikh

Feels like web development is becoming more automated .. someday we'll just drang & drop components & everything will be generoted in bockend