Nice post. The first 100 stars are most certainly the most important 100, and while stars and attention are perhaps a shallow indication of true value, we are humans and we need signals like this sometimes. 😄

Great advice, I'm going to add a nice logo to js-coroutines as it's currently looking rather sad! I made an effort with the website but less so on the GitHub. Can't seem to get JavaScript Weekly interested sadly.

Do not Crete fake GitHub accounts to star your own project. GitHub will catch you, GUARANTEED.

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Nice post. My personal record for star is 3(including me) 😑

Awesome article. Am really looking forward to promoting fractio, an eel based tool for calculating document statistics such as character, word and sentence count. It also calculates estimated reading time and assigns the document a readability score.

I would like feedback to ysv. This is a command line program which reads CSV data from stdin and accepts a configuration file name as a command line argument. Its job is to create a new CSV file based on that configuration. Example configuration:

version: 1
columns:
  year:
    - input: year
  make:
    - input: make
    - uppercase
    - replace:
        MERCEDES-BENZ: MERCEDES
  model:
    - input: model
    - uppercase

The purpose is to simplify ETL jobs and clean data before it gets into a database. Stage of development is very early, as is my level of understanding Rust.

I have seen that a lot of tedious work has to be done to clean up data, standardize column names and formats, and this tool aims to resolve that pain using a simple DSL.

Such an amazing post. I followed each and every step and honestly my project readme looks more simpler and cooler than ever. Have a look

node@v10.16.0 or higher
npm@6.9.0 or higher
git@2.17.1 or higher

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/rahuldkjain/minimal-portfolio.git
# Go into the repository
$ cd minimal-portfolio
# Install dependencies
$ npm install
# Run 
$ npm run dev

Trex is a Package management for deno but maintaining the deno philosophy. packages are cached and only one import_map.json file is generated.

Btw awesome post!

Really good and informative read! Thanks for sharing.

Nice tips! Let me promote some of my projects (and I wish I can reach more people with my works that I work really hard to make):

• obsidian: A Rust web framework which we aim to make it more developer-friendly (as people always say Rust is hard to learn). It is still on an early stage, and we are discussing about how do we make it become a productivity tool for developers.
• aion: A friendly Rust utility crate for duration and datetime.

// It allows you to write the duration and datetime like this
2.days(); // Duration for 2 days
2.seconds(); // Duration for 2 seconds
2.hours().from_now(); // Datetime for 2 hours from now
7.days().ago(); // Datetime for 1 week ago
1.weeks().ago(); // Datetime for 1 week ago

• redux-flipper and flipper-plugin-redux-debugger: a redux middleware for debugging your redux state in React Native and Flipper

Why isn't #1 "make something that people want to use"?

This is really good advice. Especially for people starting out with Github when a lot of questions come to mind and block you from actually taking part or doing something because you think "is this the right way to do it?".

The best way is to just do it then iterate as you go along and i think posts like this go a long way to helping people do that.

thanks!

Nice write-up. Congrats on your library! I think first and foremost is to create something valuable, something you want to use yourself is a good starting point, and like you discussed I think a lot of people fail to polish up the presentation of their work to make it more appealing

Hey @nastyox, followed all your guidelines and getting some traction already for GitGuardian's shield: github.com/GitGuardian/gg-shield (scan your files and detect potential secrets or issues in your code). Thanks!

Nice article I've added two of my projects to JavaScripting. sysend.js library that allow to send messages between open tabs or windows including cross domain. and jQuery Terminal. I have also another project I would like to share which is LIPS Scheme based language written in JavaScript. I need to add logo to master branch README as well, it will be awhile until I'll made 1.0 version that I'm working on in devel branch.

Omg the amount of effort... I felt like I went back in time and had to chase my wife all over again....

Informative post. I always envy the repo which has a lot of stars and it was very hard for me to go beyond 5. I will try to apply these tips for my next opensource tool and post the result here. Thank you @nastyox

This is an amazing article♥️. I would like to advertise React Native WiFi & Hotspot Wizard which is a react native library I am working on to configure WiFi & Hotspot settings programmatically.

SyncPaint is a web app for group drawing. Draw together with other people in real time.

Great tips :)!

I feel obliged to point everyone to Goodhart's law.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Agreed. I remember I was so happy to have reached my first 50 stars and have not move far enough as I am busy maturing the tool than running a campaign. But now, it seems I had bit more time :) Appreciate your stars guys! :D

I just made some of your suggestions on my project yuniql, thanks for the tips! yuniql.io is a database schema versioning and migration tool for postgresql, sqlserver and others. Hope you find this useful in your future projects.

Awesome points! Most of them I'm already trying to realize, mostly depends on how much time I can spend on a project. I also like badges in a Readme, to have quick information about the repo at first glance.

Here is one of my own projects:

Nice post. You make a lot of good points. My friends and I are currently developing and promoting SimplQ, a virtual web-based queue management system. Adding here so it gets a little more traction :).

For those who use IntelliJ IDEA, I've created a fun plugin waifu-motivator-plugin it's a simple and open-sourced Jetbrains IDE plugin that your waifu motivates you and helps you work on your coding challenges. It's published in the marketplace, you can directly install it from the IDE via Settings | Plugins | Marketplace or you can install it from here

Honestly for me it's just the point on a concise intro and example with no fluff.
I don't care about the pretty side as I am most likely there to consume a package or cannibalise some snippets!

A logo or a couple of images are OK, but I personally dislike OTT readme's with tons of large images which mean I have to scroll all over the place to tie bits together!

I think there's a lot of difference between repos of js projects, that get a looots of visits when everything is configured, and other projects with different languages.

Django is extremely popular, and I shared the link of my project (on french & english tech websites) in april. I got some stars & views on the repo, but then there have been less and less visits (there is now ~20 people/week visiting the repo).

Through the stargazers count is still growing slowly:

It's daunting to think that a platform like GitHub could begin to become more like a social media platform where instant gratification and validation becomes the key metric, but I guess that will be unavoidable in an environment where popularity drives exposure.

I use GitHub explore more than I use an social feed admittedly (with Dev being a close second) and revel in the chance to read up on how something has been done in the real world. My experience as a "learner" is what motivates me to star repositories.

I have recently just opened up the source to an app I built, Skribul in hopes to receive feedback, teach what I've learned while building something that is "real world" usable. I'm proud of this small project and hope I can share knowledge with more and less experienced developers. Collaboration is more than welcomed.

Thank you!
I have created a library Neconfig - configuration module for Nestjs.
There is an issue Required to correct grammatical errors in the README.

It would be great if someone can help :)

Very nice post, I'm trying to follow it right now, don't have enough karma to post in reddit yet :( but I'm getting there

I've made a post about my project here on dev.to, is a app to extract styles from a figma project and save it directly in your code
dev.to/____marcell/extract-figma-d...

tsParticles - TypeScript Particles

A lightweight TypeScript library for creating particles. Dependency free (*) and browser ready!

Particles.js converted in TypeScript, dependency free (*), improved with new cool features and various bugs fixed and it's currently under development!

github.com/matteobruni/tsparticles

This article is amazing!! Also struggling to create a bigger audience to my project!! Thank you so much for the article =)

About TotalCross (github.com/totalCross/totalcross): GUI creator for embedded and mobile devices that allows developers to build apps with low footprint, high performance and using a high level programming language like Java/Kotlin =) We want to provide a "community friendly" alternative to Qt