Tis' the season of open-source βοΈ
Holiday coding can be a blessed experience, and there's nothing better than building an awesome project in your time off.
I've gone through countless repos and found the 24 best libraries for your Christmas coding.
Web-Devπ:
1. CopilotTextareaπ - AI-powered Writing in React Apps
A drop-in replacement for any react <textarea> with the features of Github CopilotX.
Autocompletes, insertions, edits.
Can be fed any context in real time or by the developer ahead of time.
2.React Joyride - Create product walkthroughs
gilbarbara
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react-joyride
Create guided tours in your apps
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3.NextAuthJS - Easily set up authentications
nextauthjs
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next-auth
Authentication for the Web.
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4.Trigger.dev - Reliably run long jobs without timeouts
triggerdotdev
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trigger.dev
Trigger.dev is the open source background jobs platform.
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UI/UX π¦:
5. Flowbite - Top Library of CSS Components
One of the best and most respected libraries of UI components.
Based on utility-first CSS framework.
Easy to work with, full of important supports and templates.
6.MaterialUI - Foundational React components implemented with Google's Material Design
mui
/
material-ui
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
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7. SwiperUI - Respected library for implementing mobile swipe UI
nolimits4web
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swiper
Most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions
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8.ReactSpring - implement animations in React with realistic physics
pmndrs
/
react-spring
βοΈ A spring physics based React animation library
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GenAIπ€:
9. CopilotPortal: Embed an actionable LLM chatbot inside your app.
A context-aware LLM chatbot inside your application that answers questions and takes actions.
Get a working chatBot with a few lines of code, then customize and embed as deeply as you need to.
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10.llamafile - Collapse complexities of working with LLMs to a single file
Mozilla-Ocho
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llamafile
Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
Mozilla-Ocho
/
llamafile
Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
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11. Pezzo.ai - Developer favorite LLM ops & observability
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12.Tavily - Dev friendly autonomous GPT agent that Searches data & writes reports
assafelovic
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gpt-researcher
LLM based autonomous agent that conducts in-depth web research on any given topic
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Security/Privacy π:
13. Wazuh - Unified Open-Source Security Platform
Unified open-source security platform for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Threat detection, prevention and response.
Protects on-premise, containerized and cloud environments.
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14.Zeek - Analyze network traffic in-depth
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15. SuperTokens - Open source authentication provider
supertokens
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supertokens-core
Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito
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16.Sniffnet - Locally monitor your internet traffic
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Mobile π±:
17. Tamagui - Respected react native UI & optimization library
Tamagui is designed to rapidly style React applications.
It incorporates an optional UI kit and an optimizing compiler for performance enhancement.
Allows for seamless code sharing between web and native platforms, optimizing styled components for each environment.
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18.EarlGrey - iOS UI testing by Google
mui
/
material-ui
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
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19. ReactNativeMaps - Highly customizable map component for apps
react-native-maps
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react-native-maps
React Native Mapview component for iOS + Android
react-native-maps
/
react-native-maps
React Native Mapview component for iOS + Android
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20.ReactNativePaper - Design library for iOS and Android
callstack
/
react-native-paper
Material Design for React Native (Android & iOS)
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Other π :
21. LangChain - Building Custom Action Chains with LLMs
A well-known library, but still included as it's one of my favorites and fun to build with.
Modular components that help you pull together LLMs into actions with integrations to many apps & APIs.
A powerful framework for building LLM agents.
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22.ReactAgent - Experimental project. Turn prompts into working react components
eylonmiz
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react-agent
The open-source React.js Autonomous LLM Agent
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23.Awesome for Beginers - Github listicle of beginner friendly projects
MunGell
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awesome-for-beginners
A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.
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24.Appwrite - Powerful backend platform for web & mobile apps
And...that's it folks!
Hope you enjoy these libraries and that they help/inspire you to build something cool during the Holidays.
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Merry Christmas! π π½βοΈ
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Top comments (15)
Flowbit is awesome. And . . I would like to add two more.
1. Swirl
2. Resume Matcher
Good recs.
I'd like to add one more :)
Winglang
A cloud-oriented programming language that allows developers to build distributed systems, leveraging cloud services as first-class citizens.
Love Winglang. Forgot to include it.
Me too π
No worries
Woohooo! Nice one.
And after you use Supertokens to authenticate who your user are, make sure to use cerbos.dev to authorize them to do stuff within your applications.
Cerbos βοΈ
github.com/cerbos/cerbos
Thanks for sharing, will check out this library
Nice list!
Thanks for checking it out!
Merry open-source centric Christmas π
Santa's open-source workshop
Really liked it! ReactAgent looks interesting, I'm definitely playing with it over the next few days π€
React Agent is pretty fun to play around with, but remember it's an experimental project π¬
Great list, @uliyahoo!
Glad you enjoyed it.