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Have you ever made or discovered a useful library? Share it! 💬

Hey everyone! 👋 Let's have some fun sharing cool code libraries we've made or discovered recently. I'll kick things off with a few, including two I've been working on:

  1. Best-Holiday (mine): It's a JavaScript library for working with holiday data. Super handy for apps that need to display holiday info or do date calculations. You can grab holidays for specific days, search by criteria, even add your own custom holidays. Check it out on npm or GitHub if you're into that kind of thing!

  2. Best-Bible (also mine): A simple npm library to interact with the Bible easily. Right now, it just supports the KJV. You can read about it here:

  3. Chroma.js: A versatile and very popular library for color manipulation in JavaScript.
    Link: https://github.com/gka/chroma.js


What about you? Any cool libraries you've created or found lately? Share 'em here - always love seeing what creative stuff the community comes up with! 🚀

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Rob Benzo

This Python one is handy:

pypi.org/project/colorzero/

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K Om Senapati

github.com/Textualize/rich

Check this out as well

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Very cool! I use Node.js mostly. But whenever I create another project in Python, I will be sure to use this (if I want some color or formatting).

Thanks for the resource!

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Cool! I don't use Python that much. It looks like the Python version of chroma.js.

Have you ever made your own library?

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Rob Benzo

No

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Neurabot

What's handy differences between library and framework ? Bootstrap is framework but others call it library, why ?

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Good question!

The difference is that a library provides specific functionality that you call in your code, while a framework provides a structure and dictates the flow, calling your code instead.

Bootstrap is often called both because it provides a set of tools (like a library) but also enforces a structure for building responsive designs (like a framework). The terminology depends on how it's used in a project.

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Neurabot • Edited

Good. I conclude framework is in a large spectrum than library. Can you help us thus by publishing interesting article on how to create a library or framework ?

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Well, I could try! I have made a library before (not a framework), so I might do that. Thanks for your interest!

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Haloe

i used best-bible recently ~

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Cool! I've met a few people who have already, which surprised me. :D

What did you use it for?

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Alternate Existance
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I've used that one!