Issue #637  (JS Utils, Media Tools, Git/CLI)10/02/25

JavaScript Utilities

Trystero — A JavaScript library built on WebRTC and others to build instant multiplayer web apps, no server required, with features like rooms, attach data to media streams, session data encryption, and more.

workers-oauth-provider — A TypeScript library, intended to be used on Cloudflare Workers. that implements the provider side of the OAuth 2.1 protocol.

Faceclick — A lightweight emoji picker that lets the user choose emojis by group or keyword search and displays tooltips/labels on hover.

grammY — A TypeScript framework that makes it easy to build Telegram bots, with a thriving ecosystem of plugins and has seamless integrations with popular libraries and databases.

Code Faster by Voice — Flow turns your voice into code, docs, and AI prompts. Syntax-aware, variable-smart, and built for devs. Dictate in Cursor, VS Code, or Claude – without breaking your flow. SPONSORED

Obs.js — A context-aware web performance utility that uses the Navigator and Battery APIs to get contextual information about your users’ connection strength and battery status, allowing you to change CSS features accordingly.

GrowField — A tiny, dependency-free JavaScript utility that enables textarea elements to grow with their content.

legid — A JavaScript library for generating safe, legit, and random URL-compatible IDs and is able to solve common client-side manipulation problems that leave open security holes.

@11ty/image-color — A small utility to efficiently extract color information from images (with a memoization and a disk-cache).

Media Tools (SVG, Audio, etc.)

Audora — A high-reliability, full-stack audio/video recording platform (ie. podcasting), to explore and learn advanced topics like WebRTC, FFmpeg/GStreamer processing, S3 multipart uploads, and more.

Mediabunny — A JavaScript library for reading, writing, and converting video and audio files directly in the browser, aiming to be a complete toolkit for high-performance media operations on the web.

Techpresso — Get a daily rundown of what's happening in tech and what you shouldn't miss, read by 400,000+ professionals from Google, Apple, OpenAI, and more. SPONSORED

Blur Image — A web-based tool to blur images so you can protect sensitive info in photos for social media, business, etc., with 100% private processing and no signup required.

peaks.js — A client-side JavaScript component to display and interact with audio waveforms in the browser, powered by HTML Canvas and has configuration options to allow you to customize the waveform views.

AnimateIcons — A React library of 170+ beautiful, animated SVG icons that have very specific, smooth, purposeful, and performant animations.

Ayanami — A free online pixel art drawing tool to help with sprite animations that could be used in an interactive game context or similar app.

Media Cheat Sheet — An up to date resource that offers a searchable directory that lets you find the latest social media and ad specs with filters for platform, content type, aspect ratio, and more.

AudioTee.js — A TypeScript utility that's built on top of a Swift library that captures a Mac's system audio output, that is, whatever's playing through speakers or headphones.

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Git, GitHub & CLI Tools

IntelliShell — A powerful command template and snippet manager, built with Rust, that works like IntelliSense for the shell that works on Bash, Zsh, Fish, Nushell, and PowerShell, and has standalone binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

rm-safely — A shell script that's a safety net for deleting files using macOS's `rm` command, to help prevent the accidental deletion of important files.

AwesomeIndex — A search engine for discovering curated projects across all of GitHub's "awesome" repositories, indexing the actual projects within these lists, making it easy to search for tools or libraries in various ecosystems.

Froggit — A modern, minimalist Git TUI for Windows, Mac, and Linux, designed for clarity, speed, and smooth integration with your terminal workflow.

Seven Point Sunday — Get 7 ideas to build your career every Sunday. Life hacks, passive income, AI prompts, book/music picks. From Kabir Sehgal, 16x Grammy winner and NYT bestselling author. SPONSORED

Crush — An AI coding agent for your favourite terminal, with choice of your favourite model, multiple sessions per project, add capabilities via MCPs, with first-class support in every terminal.

GitHub to Plain Text — A web-based tool converts GitHub repository (or local directory) contents into a formatted text file for Large Language Model (LLM) prompts.

Grok CLI — A conversational AI CLI tool powered by Grok with intelligent text editor capabilities and tool usage.

Git Add Interactive — A Go port of Git's interactive add functionality, providing the same interface as `git add -i` and `git add -p`, with a few enhancements.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds