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🚀10 Trending projects on GitHub for web developers - 1st October 2021

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1. ct.css

ct.css is a diagnostic CSS snippet that exposes potential performance issues in your page’s

tags.

GitHub logo csswizardry / ct

Let’s take a look inside your <head>…

🧠 ct.css – Let’s take a look inside your <head>

Computed tomography of the head uses a series of X-rays in a CT scan of the head…
wikipedia.org/Computed_tomography_of_the_head

Your <head> is the single biggest render-blocking part of your page—ensuring it is well-formed is critical. ct.css is a diagnostic CSS snippet that exposes potential performance issues in your page’s <head> tags.

Example Output

  • Red: This is an error and should be addressed.
  • Orange: This could be problematic in certain scenarios.
  • Green: This is fine and is purely informational.
  • Solid: This file is the problem.
  • Dashed: Another file(s) are causing problems with this file.

Simple Usage

Paste this anywhere in your HTML:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://csswizardry.com/ct/ct.css" class="ct" />
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Chrome Snippet

Run Snippets Of JavaScript On Any Page With Chrome DevTools

(function(){
  var ct = document.createElement('link')
  ct.rel = 'stylesheet';
  ct.href = 'https://csswizardry.com/ct/ct.css';
  ct.classList.add('ct');

2. refine

refine is a React-based framework for building data-intensive applications in no time

GitHub logo pankod / refine

refine is a React-based framework for building data-intensive applications in no time ✨ It ships with Ant Design System, an enterprise-level UI toolkit.

refine is a React-based framework for building data-intensive applications in no time It ships with Ant Design System, an enterprise-level UI toolkit.

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Meercode CI Score Meercode CI Success Rate Maintainability Test Coverage npm version npm Contributor Covenant Discord

Created by Pankod

About

refine offers lots of out-of-the box functionality for rapid development, without compromising extreme customizability. Use-cases include, but are not limited to admin panels, B2B applications and dashboards.

Documentation

For more detailed information and usage, refer to the refine documentation.

Key features

⚙️ Zero-configuration: One-line setup with superplate. It takes less than a minute to start a project.

📦 Out-of-the-box : Routing, networking, authentication, state management, i18n and UI.

🔌 Backend Agnostic : Connects to any custom backend. Built-in support for REST API, GraphQL, NestJs CRUD, Airtable, Strapi, Strapi GraphQL, Supabase and Altogic.

📝 Native Typescript Core : You can always opt out for plain Javascript.

🔘 Decoupled UI


3. Partytown

Relocate resource intensive third-party scripts off of the main thread and into a web worker.

GitHub logo BuilderIO / partytown

Relocate resource intensive third-party scripts off of the main thread and into a web worker. 🎉

Partytown 🎉

Partytown github fit 2x

Introducing Partytown: Run Third-Party Scripts From a Web Worker

A fun location for your third-party scripts to hang out

⚠️ Warning! This is experimental! ⚠️

Partytown is a lazy-loaded 6kb library to help relocate resource intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up sites by dedicating the main thread to your code, and offloading third-party scripts to a web worker.


Information

Negative Impacts From Third-Party Scripts

Even with a fast and highly tuned site and/or app following all of the best practices, it's all too common for your performance…


4. Nano Colors

A tiny and fast Node.js library to ANSI colors to terminal output. 4x times faster than chalk and use 5x less space in node_modules

GitHub logo ai / nanocolors

4x times faster than chalk and use 5x less space in node_modules

Nano Colors

A tiny and fast Node.js library to ANSI colors to terminal output.

Started as a fork of @jorgebucaran’s colorette with hacks from @lukeed’s kleur See changes between Nano Colors and colorette.

  • It is 4 times faster than chalk for simple use cases.
  • No dependencies. It takes 5 times less space in node_modules than chalk.
  • Actively maintained. Used in many big projects like PostCSS or Browserslist.
  • Auto-detects color support. You can also toggle color mode manually.
  • Tree-shakable. We use a dual ESM/CJS package.
  • Supports Node.js ≥ 6 and universal Node.js/browser projects.
import { green, bold } from 'nanocolors'
console.log(
  green(`Task ${bold('1')} was finished`)
)
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Nano Colors output


Sponsored by Evil Martians

Benchmarks

Benchmark for simple use case:

$ ./test/simple-benchmark.js
chalk         10,242,983 ops/sec
cli-color        723,530 ops/sec
ansi-colors    3,604,458 ops/sec
kleur         13,086,656 ops/sec
kleur/colors  15,955,740 ops/sec
colorette     41,579,227 ops/sec

5. Twitter, together!

A GitHub action to tweet from a repository

GitHub logo gr2m / twitter-together

🐦 A GitHub action to tweet from a repository

twitter together logo

Twitter, together!

Build Status Coverage

For Open Source or event maintainers that share a project twitter account, twitter-together is a GitHub Action that utilizes text files to publish tweets from a GitHub repository. Rather than tweeting directly, GitHub’s pull request review process encourages more collaboration, Twitter activity and editorial contributions by enabling everyone to submit tweet drafts to a project.

Screencast demonstrating twitter-together

Try it

You can submit a tweet to this repository to see the magic happen. Please follow the instructions at tweets/README.md and mention your own twitter username to the tweet. This repository is setup to tweet from https://twitter.com/commit2tweet.

Twitter API compatibility

The Twitter Ads API we currently use is the v8 version.

Setup

  1. Create a twitter app with your shared twitter account and store the credentials as TWITTER_API_KEY, TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN and TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET


6. Prestige

A text-based HTTP client in the browser. An interface-less Postman.

GitHub logo sharat87 / prestige

A text-based HTTP client in the browser. An interface-less Postman.

Prestige β

Just an HTTP client, by @sharat87. Available at prestigemad.com (Why that domain?).

Under all the abstractions, it's just stardust interacting with text.

This is a powerful, text-based, in-browser, HTTP client app that I wanted for myself.

Check out the User Guide to learn how Prestige can be a powerful addition to your toolset.

Discuss on Hacker News. Join us on Discord.

Prestige Screenshot

Why is Prestige labeled as Beta Software?: Gaps in documentation, insufficient test coverage, and potential for backwards-incompatible changes to the syntax.

Features

  • Define requests in plain text, hit Ctrl+Enter (or Cmd+Enter) to execute and view results.
  • Write plain, familiar Javascript for templating within your requests.
  • Shows all responses in a redirect chain, if request redirects.
  • Save your Prestige documents to Gist.
  • Export requests as cURL commands (more export formats coming soon).
  • Isolated cookie management.
  • Uploading files to…

7. React Spreadsheet

Simple, customizable yet performant spreadsheet for React

GitHub logo iddan / react-spreadsheet

Simple, customizable yet performant spreadsheet for React

React Spreadsheet

Simple, customizable yet performant spreadsheet for React.

Screenshot FOSSA Status CI Coverage Status

npm install react react-dom scheduler react-spreadsheet
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or

yarn add react react-dom scheduler react-spreadsheet
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Features

  • Simple straightforward API focusing on common use cases while keeping flexibility
  • Performant (yet not virtualized)
  • Implements Just Components™

Demo

Docs

License

FOSSA Status





8. nanobundle

Yet another bundler for tiny modules, powered by esbuild

GitHub logo cometkim / nanobundle

Yet another bundler for tiny modules, powered by esbuild

nanobundle

Yet another bundler for tiny modules, powered by esbuild

Thanks to microbundle for saving my days, but we can save even more days with esbuild!

Features

  • Support for ESM and CommonJS
  • Find and optimize the esbuild options for you
  • Only configuration you need is package.json (and optionally tsconfig.json)

Installation

  1. Install by running yarn add -D nanobundle or npm i -D nanobundle

  2. Setup your package.json:

    {
      "name": "your-package-name",
      "source": "./src/foo.ts",        // required, the entry source file
    
      "module": "./dist/foo.mjs",    // where to generate the ESM bundle
      "main": "./dist/foo.cjs",      // where to generate the main entry (CommonJS by default, or ESM if `"type": "module"` and not `*.cjs`)
    
      "imports": {                   // import maps for modules/paths alias
        // ...
      },
    
      "exports": {                   // export maps for multiple/conditional entries
        // ...
      },
    
      "scripts": {
        "build": "nanobundle build",
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9. React JS Landing Page Template

A simple react one page landing page templates for startups/companies.

GitHub logo issaafalkattan / React-Landing-Page-Template

A simple react one page landing page templates for startups/companies

React JS Landing Page Template

LIVE DEMO

Description

This is a ReactJS based landing page template, fit for a startup company/service with a one page view. The design is inspired by a template from Free-CSS.com All 'visual' data can be easily modified by changing the data.json file.

Make it Yours!

1. Preps

You will need to have Node JS installed on your pc.

2. Clone Files

After cloning the files, you will have to run yarn followed by yarn start in the CLI

3. Add your own data

Change the data in the data.json file as well as add any images to public/img/ You can also change styles by modifying the public/css files.

Credits

Free CSS

Free-CSS.com

Issaaf kattan




10. Live Query

Realtime GraphQL Live Queries with JavaScript

GitHub logo n1ru4l / graphql-live-query

Realtime GraphQL Live Queries with JavaScript

GraphQL Live Query

Real-Time with any schema or transport

Why Live Queries? - Read the introduction Post - Learn how Live Query Tracking works



Packages in this Repository

Package Description Stats
@n1ru4l/in-memory-live-query-store Live query implementation. npm version npm downloads
@n1ru4l/graphql-live-query Utilities for live query implementations. npm version npm downloads
@n1ru4l/graphql-live-query-patch-json-patch Reduce live query payload size with JSON patches npm version npm downloads
@n1ru4l/graphql-live-query-patch-jsondiffpatch Reduce live query payload size with @n1ru4l/json-patch-plus npm version npm downloads
@n1ru4l/socket-io-graphql-server GraphQL over Socket.io - Server Middleware npm version npm downloads
@n1ru4l/socket-io-graphql-client GraphQL over Socket.io - Client npm version npm downloads
todo-example-app Todo App with state sync across clients. -

Motivation

There is no mature live query implementation that is not tied to any specific database or SaaS product. This implementation should serve as an example for showcasing how live queries can be added to any GraphQL.js schema with (almost) any GraphQL transport.

GraphQL already has a solution for real-time: Subscriptions. Those are the right tool for responding to events. E.g. triggering a sound or showing a toast message because someone poked you…


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