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Issue #587  (Frameworks, Testing, Uncats)10/17/24


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Web Frameworks

STDF — A component library for built with Svelte and Tailwind with no other dependencies that's optimized for interaction on mobile featuring no runtime and no virtual DOM.

Ornament — A framework to build frameworks, based on web components, featuring mid-level, pareto-optimal, tree-shakable and tiny (< 5k) TypeScript-positive toolkit for web component infrastructure.

Sakai — An admin dashboard UI components library built with Vue and based on create-vue.

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Astro Storefront — A best-in-class performance template for building e-commerce apps and storefronts with Astro.

Vanilla Components — A lightweight, flexible, and customizable UI library for Vue 3 that's configurable, SSR-ready, and uses Tailwind for styling.

Animata — A unique and diverse set of hand-crafted interaction animations and effects built with React and Tailwind, ready to copy/paste into your projects.

Animata

Pagen AI Landing Page — A landing page template built with Next.js and shadcn/ui, created by Pagen AI (an AI-powered landing page generator).

cult/ui — A set of accessible, ready-to-use, customizable, shadcn/ui-compatible components and themes, with dark mode, for your React apps.

t3-turbo-and-clerk — A starter template for building T3 apps (TypeScript, Next.js, tRPC, Tailwind, etc.) with Clerk as the auth provider.

Testing & Debugging Tools

LinkPreview — Enter a URL to test your social and Open Graph meta tags to see how a page appears on X, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

mitata — A configurable benchmarking tool with automatic garbage collection and universal run-time compatibility.

CrUX Vis — An experiment from the Chrome team, it's a Chrome User Experience Report that provides a dataset that reflects how real-world Chrome users experience popular destinations on the web.

CrUX Vis

Auto Playwright — A TypeScript package that lets you automate Playwright steps using ChatGPT, with support for all browsers that Playwright supports.

LogTape — A zero-dependency, multi-featured logging library for JavaScript and TypeScript that provides a simple and flexible logging system that's easy to use and easy to extend.

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Fake Log Generator — A tool helps you create realistic Apache and application log entries for testing, development, and analysis purposes, allowing you to customize log types, timestamps, IP addresses, etc.

ESBench — A modern JavaScript benchmarking tool compatible with multiple run-times, zero-config TypeScript support, and reports can be exported as text, CSV, or HTML.

Design Copilot — An AI-powered Chrome extension that provides design feedback for any website. Free while in Beta.

lcl.host — Native Mac or Windows solution that adds HTTPS in a fast and free way to local applications and services.
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The Uncateg­orizables

Slingcode — A personal computing platform in a single HTML file that allows you to make, run, and share web apps anywhere (USB stick, laptop, etc).

Gamify Everything — A set of API endpoints to easily integrate gamification features into your app, allowing you to handle user tracking, calculation, and data storage to visualize user progress.

Best Free Fonts — A curated selection of 150+ beautiful free fonts in four categories (serif, sans serif, script, and monospace), sourced from various places.

Best Free Fonts

Nginx UI — A simple, powerful, and fast web UI for Nginx with online statistics, a ChatGPT assistant, Let's Encrypt deployment/renewal, viewable Nginx logs, and lots more.

htmgo — A lightweight pure Go way to build interactive websites and web applications using Go and htmx, deployable as a single compiled binary.

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Dokku — An open source PaaS alternative to Heroku, powered by Docker, with support for pushing Heroku-compatible apps via Git.

Srcbook — An open-source interactive programming environment for JavaScript and TypeScript that runs on Node.js, for rapid JS/TS prototyping.

VS Code Theme Generator — An online tool to create and customize themes for VS Code, allowing you to choose from predefined color schemes or use the options to change individual colors and tokens.

uMap — A platform to quickly build custom maps with OpenStreetMap’s background layers and integrate them on your own website.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds

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Keak – An AI agent to automate A/B testing for Shopify, Framer, WordPress, Webflow, and more.
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BuilderKit – Highly modular boilerplate for building SaaS apps with Supabase, Next.js, AI, and more.
Kusho – An AI Agent for API testing that generates an exhaustive test suite in minutes.
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Cursor – AI-powered code editor with powerful auto-complete, code generation, chat, and more.
Arcjet – An app security solution with rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and more.

An X Post for Thought

Is this a valid way to select a framework? Humorous, but there might be some truth to it! (For those who don't click through, the images show Web Vitals reports for each of the framework websites.)
 
An X Post for Thought
 

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