Iain Freestone

Posted on Dec 31, 2021

🚀10 Trending projects on GitHub for web developers - 31st December 2021

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1. Editor.js

A block-styled editor with clean JSON output

codex-team / editor.js

A block-style editor with clean JSON output

editorjs.io | documentation | changelog

About

Editor.js is an open-source text editor offering a variety of features to help users create and format content efficiently. It has a modern, block-style interface that allows users to easily add and arrange different types of content, such as text, images, lists, quotes, etc. Each Block is provided via a separate plugin making Editor.js extremely flexible.

Editor.js outputs a clean JSON data instead of heavy HTML markup. Use it in Web, iOS, Android, AMP, Instant Articles, speech readers, AI chatbots — everywhere. Easy to sanitize, extend and integrate with your logic.

😍 Modern UI out of the box
💎 Clean JSON output
⚙️ Well-designed API
🛍 Various Tools available
💌 Free and open source

Installation

It's quite simple:

Install Editor.js
Install tools you need
Initialize Editor's instance

Install using NPM, Yarn, or CDN:

npm i @editorjs/editorjs

Choose and install tools:

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2. PurgeCSS

PurgeCSS analyzes your content and your css files. Then it matches the selectors used in your files with the one in your content files. It removes unused selectors from your css, resulting in smaller css files.

FullHuman / purgecss

Remove unused CSS

PurgeCSS

What is PurgeCSS?

When you are building a website, chances are that you are using a css framework like Bootstrap, Materializecss, Foundation, etc... But you will only use a small set of the framework and a lot of unused css styles will be included.

This is where PurgeCSS comes into play. PurgeCSS analyzes your content and your css files. Then it matches the selectors used in your css files with the ones in your content files. It removes unused selectors from your css, resulting in smaller css files.

Sponsors 🥰

Documentation

You can find the PurgeCSS documentation on this website.

PurgeCSS

Plugins

Guides

Getting Started

Installation

npm install purgecss --save-dev

Usage

import { PurgeCSS } from "purgecss";
const purgeCSSResults = await new PurgeCSS(

…

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3. Wouter

A minimalist-friendly ~1.5KB routing for React and Preact. Nothing else but Hooks.

molefrog / wouter

🥢 A minimalist-friendly ~2.1KB routing for React and Preact

wouter is a tiny router for modern React and Preact apps that relies on Hooks.
A router you wanted so bad in your project!

Features

⚠️ These docs are for wouter v3 only. Please find the documentation for wouter@2.12.0 here

Minimum dependencies, only 2.1 KB gzipped vs 18.7KB React Router.
Supports both React and Preact! Read "Preact support" section for more details.
No top-level <Router /> component, it is fully optional.
Mimics React Router's best practices by providing familiar Route, Link Switch and Redirect components.
Has hook-based API for more granular control over routing (like animations) useLocation, useRoute and useRouter.

developers 💖 wouter

... I love Wouter. It’s tiny, fully embraces hooks, and has an intuitive and barebones API. I can accomplish everything I could with react-router with Wouter, and it just feels more minimalist while not being inconvenient.

Matt Miller, …

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4. bundlesize

Keep your bundle size in check

siddharthkp / bundlesize

Keep your bundle size in check

Keep your bundle size in check

Setup

npm install bundlesize --save-dev

# or

yarn add bundlesize --dev

Usage

Add it to your scripts in package.json

"scripts": {
  "test": "bundlesize"
}

Or you can use it with npx from NPM 5.2+.

npx bundlesize

Configuration

bundlesize accepts an array of files to check.

[
  {
    "path": "./build/vendor.js",
    "maxSize": "30 kB"
  },
  {
    "path": "./build/chunk-*.js",
    "maxSize": "10 kB"
  }
]

You can keep this array either in

package.json

{
  "name": "your cool library",
  "version": "1.1.2",
  "bundlesize": [
    {
      "path": "./build/vendor.js",
      "maxSize": "3 kB"
    }
  ]
}

or in a separate file

bundlesize.config.json

Format:

{
  "files": [
    {
      "path": "./dist.js"
      "maxSize": "3

…

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5. MindAR

Web Augmented Reality. Natural feature tracking. Image targets. Tensorflow.js

hiukim / mind-ar-js

Web Augmented Reality. Image Tracking, Face Tracking. Tensorflow.js

MindAR

MindAR is a web augmented reality library. Highlighted features include:

⭐ Support Image tracking and Face tracking. For Location or Fiducial-Markers Tracking, checkout AR.js

⭐ Written in pure javascript, end-to-end from the underlying computer vision engine to frontend

⭐ Utilize gpu (through webgl) and web worker for performance

⭐ Developer friendly. Easy to setup. With AFRAME extension, you can create an app with only 10 lines of codes

Fund Raising

MindAR is the only actively maintained web AR SDK which offer comparable features to commercial alternatives. This library is currently maintained by me as an individual developer. To raise fund for continuous development and to provide timely supports and responses to issues, here is a list of related projects/ services that you can support.

Unity WebAR Foundation

WebAR Foundation is a unity package that allows Unity developer to build WebGL-platform AR applications. It acts as a Unity Plugin that…

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6. Snap page

Snap page when user stops scrolling, with a customizable configuration and a consistent cross browser behaviour

lucafalasco / scroll-snap

↯ Snap page when user stops scrolling, with a customizable configuration and a consistent cross browser behaviour

`scroll-snap`

Snap page when user stops scrolling, basically implements CSS Scroll Snap, adding a customizable configuration and a consistent cross browser behaviour.

Works in all modern browsers
requestAnimationFrame for 60fps
Customizable settings (including easing functions)
No additional dependencies
No extra stylesheet

Installation

yarn add scroll-snap

You can also grab a pre-built version from unpkg

Usage

createScrollSnap(element, settings, [callback])

Arguments

`element: HTMLElement`

The HTML DOM Element to attach the scroll listener to.

`settings: Settings`

A configuration object consisting of one or more of the following keys:

`snapDestinationX: string | number`

Snap destination for x axis, should be a valid css value expressed as px | % | vw | vh

`snapDestinationY: string | number`

Snap destination for y axis, should be a valid css value expressed as px | % | vw | vh

`timeout: number`

Time in ms after which scrolling is…

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7. Dependency cruiser

Validate and visualize dependencies. Your rules. JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript. ES6, CommonJS, AMD.

sverweij / dependency-cruiser

Validate and visualize dependencies. Your rules. JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript. ES6, CommonJS, AMD.

Dependency cruiser

Validate and visualise dependencies. With your rules. JavaScript. TypeScript. CoffeeScript. ES6, CommonJS, AMD.

What's this do?

This runs through the dependencies in any JavaScript, TypeScript, LiveScript or CoffeeScript project and ...

... validates them against (your own) rules
... reports violated rules
- in text (for your builds)
- in graphics (for your eyeballs)

As a side effect it can generate dependency graphs in various output formats including cool visualizations you can stick on the wall to impress your grandma.

How do I use it?

Install it ...

npm install --save-dev dependency-cruiser
# or
yarn add -D dependency-cruiser
pnpm add -D dependency-cruiser

... and generate a config

npx depcruise --init

This will look around in your environment a bit, ask you some questions and create a .dependency-cruiser.js configuration file attuned to your project¹².

Show stuff to your grandma

To create a graph of the dependencies in your…

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8. React Rich Text Editor

Pure React rich text WYSIWYG editor based on draft-js.

sstur / react-rte

Pure React rich text WYSIWYG editor based on draft-js.

Deprecated

This repository is long ourdated and even Draft.js (on which this editor is built) is long outdated and has been superceded by Lexical.

I don't recommend you use this in your project. There are many great alternatives such as TipTap.

React Rich Text Editor

This is a UI component built completely in React that is meant to be a full-featured textarea replacement similar to CKEditor, TinyMCE and other rich text "WYSIWYG" editors. It's based on the excellent, open source Draft.js from Facebook which is performant and production-tested.

Demo

Try the editor here: react-rte.org/demo

Getting Started

$ npm install --save react-rte

RichTextEditor is the main editor component. It is comprised of the Draft.js <Editor>, some UI components (e.g. toolbar) and some helpful abstractions around getting and setting content with HTML/Markdown.

RichTextEditor is designed to be used like a textarea except that instead of value being…

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9. Changesets

A way to manage your versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos

changesets / changesets

🦋 A way to manage your versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos

A tool to manage versioning and changelogs
with a focus on multi-package repositories

The changesets workflow is designed to help when people are making changes, all the way through to publishing. It lets contributors declare how their changes should be released, then we automate updating package versions, and changelogs, and publishing new versions of packages based on the provided information.

Changesets has a focus on solving these problems for multi-package repositories, and keeps packages that rely on each other within the multi-package repository up-to-date, as well as making it easy to make changes to groups of packages.

How do we do that?

A changeset is an intent to release a set of packages at particular semver bump types with a summary of the changes made.

The @changesets/cli package allows you to write changeset files as you make changes, then combine any number of changesets into a release, that flattens the…

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10. React Table

Hooks for building fast and extendable tables and datagrids for React

TanStack / table

🤖 Headless UI for building powerful tables & datagrids for TS/JS - React-Table, Vue-Table, Solid-Table, Svelte-Table

TanStack Table v8

Headless UI for building powerful tables & datagrids for React, Solid, Vue, Svelte, Qwik and TS/JS.

Looking for version 7 of react-table? Click here!

Enjoy this library?

Try other TanStack libraries:

Visit tanstack.com/table for docs, guides, API and more!

You may know TanStack Table by our adapter names, too!

Summary

TanStack Table is a headless table library, which means it does not ship with components, markup or styles. This means that you have full control over markup and styles (CSS, CSS-in-JS, UI Component Libraries, etc) and this is also what gives it its portable nature. You can even use it in React Native!

If you want a lightweight table with full control over markup and implementation, then you…

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1. Editor.js

codex-team / editor.js

A block-style editor with clean JSON output

About

Installation

2. PurgeCSS

FullHuman / purgecss

Remove unused CSS

PurgeCSS

What is PurgeCSS?

Sponsors 🥰

Documentation

Table of Contents

PurgeCSS

Plugins

Guides

Getting Started

Installation

Usage

3. Wouter

molefrog / wouter

🥢 A minimalist-friendly ~2.1KB routing for React and Preact

Features

developers 💖 wouter

4. bundlesize

siddharthkp / bundlesize

Keep your bundle size in check

Setup

Usage

Configuration

5. MindAR

hiukim / mind-ar-js

Web Augmented Reality. Image Tracking, Face Tracking. Tensorflow.js

MindAR

Fund Raising

Unity WebAR Foundation

6. Snap page

lucafalasco / scroll-snap

↯ Snap page when user stops scrolling, with a customizable configuration and a consistent cross browser behaviour

scroll-snap

Installation

Usage

Arguments

element: HTMLElement

settings: Settings

snapDestinationX: string | number

snapDestinationY: string | number

timeout: number

7. Dependency cruiser

sverweij / dependency-cruiser

Validate and visualize dependencies. Your rules. JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript. ES6, CommonJS, AMD.

Dependency cruiser

What's this do?

How do I use it?

Install it ...

... and generate a config

Show stuff to your grandma

8. React Rich Text Editor

sstur / react-rte

Pure React rich text WYSIWYG editor based on draft-js.

Deprecated

React Rich Text Editor

Demo

Getting Started

9. Changesets

changesets / changesets

🦋 A way to manage your versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos

How do we do that?

10. React Table

TanStack / table

🤖 Headless UI for building powerful tables & datagrids for TS/JS - React-Table, Vue-Table, Solid-Table, Svelte-Table

TanStack Table v8

Enjoy this library?

Visit tanstack.com/table for docs, guides, API and more!

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`scroll-snap`

`element: HTMLElement`

`settings: Settings`

`snapDestinationX: string | number`

`snapDestinationY: string | number`

`timeout: number`