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Issue #574  (JS Libs, Testing, Git/CLI)07/18/24


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JavaScript Libraries & Frameworks

Rezact — A reactive JavaScript library that blends the best of Svelte, SolidJS, React, and others, that encourages direct data mutations, offers module-level reactivity, and simplifies component design.

Bridge — A Typescript Node.js framework that provides an easy and scalable way to create REST APIs while generating the client code, familiar for both Node.js and TypeScript devs.

Signalize.js — A client-side JavaScript framework that leverages modern ES modules and import maps to stay small and flexible, loading a tiny core before you determine what to import.

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Isograph — An opinionated UI framework for building interactive, data-driven apps, that makes heavy use of a compiler and generated code to enable devs to quickly build stable and performant apps.

Flitter — A JavaScript library for high-performance, interactive data visualizations with Flutter-like syntax, that seamlessly integrates with React, Svelte, and more.

Flitter

ofa.js — A no-build MVVM JavaScript framework based on Web Components, with no need for npm, Node.js, or Webpack.

Veles — A component-based performance-focused UI library that provides a composable way to build highly interactive interfaces that are performant out of the box.

Kaplay — A JavaScript library that makes it easy to create games using a 'theater' concept that's based on scenes, game objects, and components.

vinxi — A JavaScript SDK that lets you build full-stack apps and frameworks 
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Testing & Debugging Tools

screen-scaler — An alternative to responsive design for specific use cases, allowing you to build one-size-fits-all designs that shrink and scale to the size of the screen.

Quickboot.js — An experimental tool to reduce JS code size beyond tree-shaking that uses runtime tracing, eval(), and sync XHR with non trivial trade-offs.

Pioppo — A tiny isomorphic batched logger that offers ~3x faster logging compared to regular logging in Node.js.

SSR Framework Benchmark — A basic, non-comprehensive chart that provides a benchmark for SSR performance in popular JavaScript frameworks.

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Font Interceptor — An online tool that lets you enter a URL and it will allow you to download any of the fonts used on the page in question.

Web-Check — An online tool that provides insight into the inner workings of a given website, including potential attack vectors, server architecture, security configurations, and what technologies a site is using.

Web-Check

unplugin-turbo-console — An enhancement to console.log that has features like output highlighting based on file type, prefix/suffix for outputs, pass logs from server to client, and more.

Statusnook — A web service with multiple features, to effortlessly deploy a status page and start monitoring endpoints in minutes.

React Geiger — A tool for "audiolizing" React performance issues, by running in the background and making little click noises that indicate excessive (slow) component re-renders.
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Git, GitHub, & CLI Tools

git-cliff — A highly customizable generator that generates a changelog from your Git history and follows the popular Conventional Commit specification.

Entropy — A Go-based CLI tool that scans your codebase for high entropy lines, which are often secrets, to avoid leaking such lines publicly.

concurrently — A Node.js-based CLI tool that lets you run commands concurrently, like `npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less` but better.

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TLock — A two-factor authentication tokens manager for the terminal, written in Go, to store and manage your authentication tokens securely.

GitHub Traffic Viewer — An online service that shows a list of traffic graphs of your own GitHub repositories.

GitHub Traffic Viewer

Diffy — A online tool that allows you to share diffs and explain your ideas without committing, to get feedback and discover bugs more easily.

ugrep — A more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep, a true drop-in replacement for GNU grep.

Harden-Runner — A GitHub Action that provides network egress filtering and runtime security for GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners.

Autodoc — An experimental toolkit for auto-generating codebase documentation for Git repositories using Large Language Models like GPT-4 or Alpaca.

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