25 monthly most popular JS repositories on GitHub. November 12

Iren Korkishko
ITNEXT
Published in
4 min readNov 12, 2018

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Originally I shared this digest to Syndicode blog.

This type of weather makes you want nothing else but sitting at home and watching some movie sipping a tea or cacao. Right? Especially if it’s cold outside. Some might say that such conditions force people to learn something new or improve their skills while there is not much fun on the street. But I have doubts about any kind of motivation in November. Still, you can watch as others getting popular on GitHub with their JS projects.

Monthly most popular JavaScript repositories:

  1. three.js is a JavaScript 3D library to create an easy to use, lightweight, 3D library. The library provides Canvas 2D, SVG, CSS3D and WebGL renderers.46,158 stars by now.
  2. The Serverless Framework is a framework for building applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events and auto-scale. The framework is extensible via plugins and uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and more. 26,386 stars by now.
  3. Apache Superset (incubating) is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application. (This project used to be named Caravel, and Panoramix in the past). 21,742 stars by now.
  4. Ace is a standalone browser code editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page or JavaScript application. 18,580 stars by now.
  5. Project Guidelines is a set of best practices for JavaScript projects. 18,214 stars by now.
  6. howler.js is an audio library for the modern web. It defaults to Web Audio API and falls back to HTML5 Audio. 12,550 stars by now.
  7. Carlo is a headful Node app framework that provides Node applications with Google Chrome rendering capabilities, communicates with the locally-installed browser instance using the Puppeteer project, and implements a remote call infrastructure for communication between Node and the browser. 5,768 stars by now.
  8. Open MCT (Open Mission Control Technologies) is a next-generation mission control framework for visualization of data on desktop and mobile devices. It is developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center, and is being used by NASA for data analysis of spacecraft missions, as well as planning and operation of experimental rover systems. As a generalizable and open source framework, Open MCT could be used as the basis for building applications for planning, operation, and analysis of any systems producing telemetry data. 5,691 stars by now.
  9. AntD Admin is a frontend solution for enterprise applications built upon Ant Design and UmiJS. 4,925 stars by now.
  10. x-ray is a web scraper. 4,666 stars by now.
  11. face-api.js is a JavaScript API for face detection and face recognition in the browser implemented on top of the tensorflow.js core API. 3,501stars by now.
  12. Redbird is a modern reverse proxy for Node. It has a complete library to build dynamic reverse proxies with the speed and robustness of http-proxy, built-in Cluster, HTTP2, LetsEncrypt and Docker support. 3,481 stars by now.
  13. Rythm.js is a JavaScript library that makes your page dance. 3,419 stars by now.
  14. Spacetime is a lightweight JavaScript timezone library. 2,283 stars by now.
  15. RawGit is the source code behind https://rawgit.com/. 2,147 stars by now.
  16. Glorious Demo is a tool for creating animations to show your code in action. 2,045 stars by now.
  17. SimpleBar is a plugin for web-app scrollbars customization. SimpleBar does not implement a custom scroll behavior. It keeps the native overflow: auto scroll and only replace the scrollbar visual appearance. 1,812 stars by now.
  18. graphql.js is a lightweight and isomorphic GraphQL Client for JavaScript. Lightest GraphQL client with intelligent features. 1,768stars by now.
  19. Icarus is a simple, delicate, and modern theme for the static site generator Hexo. Once started, Icarus will remind you of any missing dependencies and configuration files. 1,759 stars by now.
  20. Graphpack is a minimalistic zero-config GraphQL server. It uses webpack with nodemon and Apollo Server under the hood, so we get features like Live Reloading, GraphQL Playground, GraphQL Imports and many more right out of the box. 1,395 stars by now.
  21. IronDB is a resilient key-value store for the browser. Data saved to IronDB is redundantly stored in Cookies, IndexedDB, LocalStorage, and SessionStorage, and relentlessly self-heals if any data therein is deleted or corrupted. 1,354 stars by now.
  22. randexp.js will generate a random string that matches a given RegExp Javascript object. 1,337 stars by now.
  23. AwesomeXSS is a repository with a curated collection of cross-site scripting (XSS) useful links and tips. p.s. XSS is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications. 1,240 stars by now.
  24. zigbee2mqtt allows you to use your Zigbee devices without the vendors (Xiaomi/TRADFRI/Hue) bridge or gateway. It bridges events and allows you to control your Zigbee devices via MQTT. In this way you can integrate your Zigbee devices with whatever smart home infrastructure you are using. 1,151 stars by now.
  25. Ervy is used for bringing charts to terminal. 992 stars by now.

Check my previous JS digests here.

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