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8 Open Source Projects Worth Bookmarking

The open-source world is constantly evolving, with new surprises emerging every day. Here are 8 eye-catching open-source projects that cover various aspects of front-end technology. Whether you are an experienced developer or a beginner, there is bound to be a project that resonates with you.

draw-a-ui

draw-a-ui cleverly combines the open-source digital whiteboard tldraw with the GPT-4-Vision API. Users can simply draw wireframes and add annotations in tldraw, and the app will generate stunning HTML-based UI designs. The underlying technology converts the current canvas’s SVG graphics into PNG format and uses the GPT-4-Vision API to create Tailwind-styled HTML files. This innovative process showcases the powerful capabilities of AI tools like GPT, providing users with a more flexible and creative UI design experience.

Orillusion

Orillusion is a high-performance Web3D rendering engine based on the WebGPU graphics API, offering rendering capabilities comparable to desktop graphics APIs. It takes full advantage of the GPU’s capabilities, such as flexible GPU caching operations, powerful shaders (WebGPU Shader/WGSL), and the highly regarded Compute Shader cores, maximizing the GPU’s parallel processing power in non-rasterization stages to deliver exceptional rendering results.

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shadcn-ui

shadcn-ui is a UI component library built on React, utilizing TailwindCSS for style customization. It is based on Radix and provides headless components to address accessibility and keyboard interaction issues. Unlike traditional NPM packages like MUI and ChakraUI, shadcn-ui can be easily integrated via terminal commands, allowing you to install dependencies and directly modify the source code.

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Key features of shadcn-ui include:

Theme and Theme Editor: Easily create custom themes through a graphical interface, with code snippets that can be copied and pasted into your program.
Dark Mode: Supports dark mode for Next.js and Vite applications, offering a unique visual experience.
CLI Tool: Automatically configures projects, enabling framework integration, configuration file generation, and component addition to enhance development efficiency.
Rich Component Library: Contains over 40 basic components to meet diverse development needs.

excalidraw

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Excalidraw is a free, open-source online tool centered around an infinite canvas, allowing users to unleash their creativity in a virtual space. Its hand-drawn style ensures that every stroke is filled with artistic flair. The application supports multiple languages, including Chinese, to cater to a global audience. It offers a rich set of drawing tools for users to create freely based on their preferences and needs. Additionally, users can export their creations as PNG files for easy sharing and saving. Real-time collaboration and sharing links enable multiple users to co-create on the same canvas, enhancing team cooperation and convenience.

Flutter Zerker

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Zerker is a flexible and lightweight Flutter Canvas animation library. With Zerker, you can create various seemingly complex animation effects, such as like animations, pop-up animations, scene transitions, and icon effects. You can also use Zerker to build simple games. It includes elements like sprites, scrolling backgrounds, and texture atlases, making it easy to create a game world.

page-spy-web

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PageSpy is a tool designed specifically for remote web project debugging. It encapsulates native APIs to intelligently filter and convert parameters when calling native methods, generating well-formatted messages for debugging purposes. When the debugging client receives these messages, it presents the data in an interactive console-like interface, significantly enhancing developers’ efficiency and convenience during remote web project debugging.

50projects50days

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This collection features 50 exquisite front-end mini-projects, all written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Each project comes with source code and effect demonstrations, providing valuable hands-on opportunities for beginners while serving as a source of inspiration for experienced front-end developers. Browsing through these projects allows newcomers to deeply experience the charm of front-end technology, and the clear, concise source code greatly lowers the barrier to coding. Perhaps one of these web effects will even amaze seasoned developers.

tiny-vue

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OpenTiny Vue stands out with its renderless component design, allowing a single codebase to be compatible with Vue2, Vue3, and React, suitable for both PC and mobile platforms. It supports function-level logic customization and full template replacement, showcasing high flexibility and extensibility. Our component library is rich and diverse, featuring over 100 components, including common industry components and our unique offerings, such as Split panel splitters, IpAddress input fields, Calendars, and Crop image tools, meeting various development needs.

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Ujjwal Raj

You can try this tool rather than bookmarking. It will help you search among the tab content in future. If you are bad at organising bookmarks, this is for you.

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/m...

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Angela Swift

Thanks, I'll check it.

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Matt

No mention of Perseid? 😛

Cool list, thanks for sharing!

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Angela Swift

Thanks
I'll check it Perseid

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diana

will definitely check this alt later!