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🚀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

Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.

Vitest

Next generation testing framework powered by Vite

Get involved!

Documentation | Getting Started | Examples | Why Vitest?

中文文档

Features

Vitest…


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

Bleeding-edge React framework powered by Vite

Rakkas

Bleeding-edge React framework powered by Vite

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

Read the guide | Try on CodeSandbox | Try on StackBlitz


Rakkas is a bleeding-edge full-stack React framework powered by Vite. You can consider it an up-and-coming alternative to Next.js, Remix, or Gatsby.

Important features are:

  • ⚡  Lightning fast development server
  • 🖥️  Streaming SSR with Suspense
  • 🔀  Dynamic rendering (full static pages for bots, streaming for browsers)
  • ⬇️  API-less data fetching system
  • 🚀  Support for serverless and worker environments
  • 📄  Static site generation
  • 📁  Flexible file system router
  • ⚙️  API routes with middleware support

Is Rakkas right for you?

  • Although many features have been implemented, Rakkas is still under heavy development. It uses experimental and/or beta features of React and Vite. Minor releases will introduce breaking changes until we hit 1.0. As such, it's not yet ready for production use. If you need…

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 theatre-js / theatre

Motion design editor for the web

Theatre.jsTheatre.js

Motion Design, for the web

GitHub branch checks state Join us on Discord Follow Theatre.js on Twitter Watch on YouTube

✨ Update: Theatre.js 1.0 is around the corner. We have temporarily moved development to a private repo so we can iterate faster. We'll push our work back to this public repo soon. Terms and license will remain OSS, as before. (Also, we're hiring – join the core team!).

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.js 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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    Art by drei.lu

  • 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 theatrejs.com/docs:


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.

watchman-logo

Molecule

A lightweight Web IDE UI Framework

CI CII Best Practices Codecov NPM downloads NPM version Chat

中文 | English | 한국어

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

Online Preview

Features

  • Built-in the Visual Studio Code Workbench UI
  • Compatible with the Visual Studio Code ColorTheme
  • Customize the Workbench via React Component easily
  • Built-in Monaco-Editor Command Palette, Keybinding features
  • Support the i18n, built-in Simplified Chinese, Korean 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
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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 / liqvid

Library for interactive videos in React

Liqvid

Liqvid is a library for creating interactive videos in React.

Links

Documentation

Discord

Repository structure

This is a monorepo. Here is what the various packages do:

Frontend Core

  • main
    Provides the main liqvid package.

  • host
    Script for pages hosting Liqvid videos; currently just handles fake fullscreen

  • keymap
    Provides the Keymap class

  • playback
    Provides the Playback class

  • polyfills
    Polyfills for Liqvid videos; currently just handles Web Animations

  • utils
    Provides the various helper functions in Utils

Backend Tools

Integrations

In-development

  • captioning
    Captions editor

  • gsap
    GSAP integration (maybe already works???)

  • i18n
    Internationalization utilities

  • player
    New Web Components-based <Player>

  • mathjax
    MathJax integration

  • react
    Probably for when Liqvid goes to Web Components…


10. ajquery.js

The fastest, most lightweight, least dependency jQuery alternative.

GitHub logo coolaj86 / ajquery.js

The fastest, most lightweight, least dependency jQuery alternative.

The fastest, most lightweight, fewest dependency jQuery alternative.
New: Now typed, Ai-enhanced, and better than ever!

Development Build: 721B (types + comments)
Production Build: 117B (min + gz)

Example Usage

Provides modern, advanced CSS4-compatible query selection:

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

via GitHub

my_ver="v3.0.3"

mkdir ./vendor/

curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coolaj86/ajquery.js/${my_ver}/ajquery.js" \
    -o ./vendor/ajquery.js

# Lighthouse-optimized
npx -p uglify-js@3 uglifyjs ./vendor/ajquery.js -o ./vendor/ajquery.min.js
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<script src="/vendor/ajquery.js"></script>
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via CDN

<script src="https://unpkg.com/ajquery@3.0.3/ajquery.min.js"></script>
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Bundler-optimized:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/ajquery@3.0.3/ajquery.min.cjs"></script>
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Tree-shaking-optimized:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/ajquery@3.0.3/ajquery.min.mjs"></script>
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via NPM

npm install --save ajquery@3
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CommonJS

let AJQuery = require("ajquery");
let $ = AJQuery.$;
let $$ = AJQuery
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