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Posted on Apr 16, 2021 • Originally published at iainfreestone.com

🚀10 Trending projects on GitHub for web developers - 16th April 2021

#javascript #react #css #typescript

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1. utility-types

Collection of utility types, complementing TypeScript built-in mapped types and aliases (think "lodash" for static types).

utility-types

Collection of utility types, complementing TypeScript built-in mapped types and aliases (think "lodash" for static types).

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What's new?

🎉 Added new utilities 🎉

Features

Providing a set of Common Types for TypeScript projects that are idiomatic and complementary to existing TypeScript Mapped Types so you don't need to copy them between the projects.
Providing a set of Additional Types compatible with Flow's Utility Types to allow much easier migration to TypeScript.

Goals

Quality - thoroughly tested for type correctness with type-testing library dts-jest
Secure and minimal - no third-party dependencies
No runtime cost - it's type-level only

Installation

# NPM
npm install utility-types

# YARN
yarn add utility-types

Compatibility Notes

TypeScript support

v3.x.x - TypeScript v3.1+
v2.x.x - TypeScript v2.8.1+
v1.x.x - TypeScript v2.7.2+

Funding Issues

Utility-Types is an open-source project created by people investing…

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2. active-win

Get metadata about the active window - title, id, bounds, owner, etc

get-windows

Get metadata about the active window and open windows (title, id, bounds, owner, URL, etc)

Works on macOS 10.14+, Linux (note), and Windows 7+.

Install

npm install get-windows

This is an ESM package which requires you to use ESM

Usage

import {activeWindow} from 'get-windows';

console.log(await activeWindow(options));
/*
{
    title: 'Unicorns - Google Search',
    id: 5762,
    bounds: {
        x: 0,
        y: 0,
        height: 900,
        width: 1440
    },
    owner: {
        name: 'Google Chrome',
        processId: 310,
        bundleId: 'com.google.Chrome',
        path: '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'
    },
    url: 'https://sindresorhus.com/unicorn',
    memoryUsage: 11015432
}
*/

API

activeWindow(options?)

Get metadata about the active window.

options

Type: object

accessibilityPermission (macOS only)

Type: boolean
Default: true

Enable the accessibility permission check. Setting this to false will prevent the accessibility permission prompt on macOS versions 10.15 and newer. The url property won't be retrieved.

screenRecordingPermission (macOS only)

Type: boolean
Default: true

Enable the screen recording permission check. Setting this to false…

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3. Cheetah Grid

The fastest open-source data table for web.

future-architect / cheetah-grid

The fastest open-source data table for web.

Cheetah Grid

The fastest open-source data table for web.

DEMO & Documents

Downloading Cheetah Grid

Using Cheetah Grid with a CDN

<script src="https://unpkg.com/cheetah-grid@1.15"></script>

Downloading Cheetah Grid using npm

npm install -S cheetah-grid

import * as cheetahGrid from "cheetah-grid";

// or

const cheetahGrid = require("cheetah-grid");

Downloading Cheetah Grid source code

cheetahGrid.es5.min.js

SourceMap
cheetahGrid.es5.min.js.map

Downloading Cheetah Grid using GitHub

git clone

git clone https://github.com/future-architect/cheetah-grid.git

npm install & build

npm install
npm run build

built file is created in the ./packages/cheetah-grid/dist directory

Usage

Example for basic usage

<div id="sample" style="height: 300px; border: solid 1px #ddd;"></div>
<script>
  // initialize
  const grid = new cheetahGrid.ListGrid({
    // Parent element on which to place the grid
    parentElement: document.querySelector("#sample"),
    // Header

…

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4. Superplate

A well-structured production-ready frontend boilerplate with Typescript, Jest, testing-library, styled-component, Sass, Css, .env, Fetch, Axios, Reverse Proxy, Bundle Analyzer and 30+ plugin. For now, only creates project for Next.js.

pankod / superplate

A well-structured production-ready frontend boilerplate with Typescript, React Testing Library, styled-component, React Query, .env, Axios, Bundle Analyzer, Prettier and 30+ plugins. superplate creates projects for React.js, Next.js, and refine. https://pankod.github.io/superplate/

A well-structured production-ready frontend boilerplate with Typescript, React Testing Library, styled-component, React Query, .env, Axios, Bundle Analyzer, Prettier and 30+ plugins.

superplate creates ready-to-develop projects for React and Next.js and refine.

_{Created by Pankod}

About

superplate lets you start rock-solid, production-ready React, Next.JS and refine projects just in seconds. The command-line interface guides the user through setup and no additional build configurations are required.

Superplate ships with +30 plugins including popular UI Kits, testing frameworks and many useful developer tools.

Quick Start

To use superplate, make sure you have npx is installed on your system (npx is shipped by default since npm 5.2.0).

To create a new app without using presets, run the following command:

npx superplate-cli my-project

You will be prompted with plugin options to create your project. A full list of avaiable plugins is here: superplate-core-plugins.

Available Integrations

Next.js

superplate makes it easier to get…

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5. React Cool Portal

React hook for Portals, which renders modals, dropdowns, tooltips etc.

wellyshen / react-cool-portal

😎 🍒 React hook for Portals, which renders modals, dropdowns, tooltips etc. to <body> or else.

REACT COOL PORTAL

This is a React hook for Portals. It helps you render children into a DOM node that exists outside the DOM hierarchy of the parent component. From now on you will never need to struggle with modals, dropdowns, tooltips etc. Check the features section out to learn more. Hope you guys 👍🏻 it.

❤️ it? ⭐️ it on GitHub or Tweet about it.

Live Demo

⚡️ Try yourself: https://react-cool-portal.netlify.app

Features

🍒 Renders an element or component to <body> or a specified DOM element.
🎣 React Portals feat. Hook.
🤖 Built-in state controllers, event listeners and many useful features for a comprehensive DX.
🧱 Used as a scaffold to build your customized hook.
🧹 Auto removes the un-used portal container for you. Doesn't produce any DOM mess.
📜 Supports TypeScript type definition.
🗄️ Server-side rendering compatibility.
🦔 Tiny size (~ 1KB gzipped…

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6. Lazy Git

A simple terminal UI for git commands

jesseduffield / lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands

^{Special thanks to:}

Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.

^{Visit warp.dev to learn more.}

I (Jesse) co-founded Subble to save your company time and money by helping you manage its software subscriptions. Check it out!

A simple terminal UI for git commands

Elevator Pitch

Rant time: You've heard it before, git is powerful, but what good is that power when everything is so damn hard to do? Interactive rebasing requires you to edit a goddamn TODO file in your editor? Are you kidding me? To stage part of a file you need to use a command line program to step…

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7. ts-essentials

All basic TypeScript types in one place

ts-essentials / ts-essentials

All essential TypeScript types in one place 🤙

ts-essentials

All essential TypeScript types in one place 🤙

Install

npm install --save-dev ts-essentials

👉 We require typescript>=4.5. If you're looking for support for older TS versions, please have a look at the TypeScript dependency table

👉 As we really want types to be stricter, we require enabled strictNullChecks in your project

API

ts-essentials is a set of high-quality, useful TypeScript types that make writing type-safe code easier.

Basic

Builtin - Matches primitive, function, date, error or regular expression
KeyofBase - keyofStringsOnly-tolerant analogue for PropertyKey
Prettify<Type> - flattens type and makes it more readable on the hover in your IDE
Primitive - Matches any primitive value
StrictExclude<UnionType, ExcludedMembers> - Constructs a type by excluding from UnionType all union members that are assignable to ExcludedMembers. This is stricter version of Exclude
StrictExtract<Type, Union> - Constructs a type by extracting from Type all union members that are assignable to…

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8. Awesome Captcha

Curated list of awesome captcha libraries and crack tools.

ZYSzys / awesome-captcha

🔑 Curated list of awesome captcha libraries and crack tools.

Awesome Captcha

Curated list of awesome captcha libraries and captcha crack tools.

CAPTCHA is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.

English | 中文 | Polish

Libraries

mewebstudio/captcha - Captcha for Laravel 5.
CGregwar/Captcha - PHP Captcha library.
trekjs/captcha - A Lightweight Pure JavaScript Captcha for Node.js. No C/C++, No ImageMagick, No Canvas.
patchca - Simple yet powerful CAPTCHA library written in Java.
google/recaptcha - PHP client library for reCAPTCHA, a free service to protect your website from spam and abuse.
ambethia/recaptcha - ReCaptcha helpers for ruby apps.
anhskohbo/no-captcha - No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA For Laravel.
lorien/captcha_solver - Universal python API to different captcha solving services.

Generation

captcha-api - Free, fast and reliable Captcha API POWERED BY AI
dchest/captcha - Go package captcha implements generation and verification of image and audio CAPTCHAs.
…

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9. bundless

Dev server and bundler for esbuild

remorses / bundless

Dev server and bundler based on esbuild

bundless

Next gen dev server and bundler

this project was a Vite alternative with many improvements like plugins, monorepo support, etc, most of them were added back to Vite 2, use Vite instead

Features

10x faster than traditional bundlers
Error panel with sourcemap support
jsx, typescript out of the box
import assets, import css

What's the difference with traditional tools like Webpack?

Faster dev server times and faster build speeds (thanks to esbuild)
Bundless serves native ES modules to the browser, removing the overhead of parsing each module before serving
Bundless uses a superset of esbuild plugin system to let users enrich its capabilities

What's the difference with tools like vite?

Bundless is very similar to vite, both serve native es modules to the browser and build a bundled version for production.

Also both are based on a plugin system that can be shared between the dev server and…

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10. CSS Layout

A collection of popular layouts and patterns made with CSS. Now it has 90+ patterns and continues growing!

phuocng / csslayout

A collection of popular layouts and patterns made with CSS. Now it has 100+ patterns and continues growing!

CSS Layout

As a front-end engineer, I deal with a lot of layouts and components. While there are plenty of CSS frameworks out there that provide these, I don't always want to include them all in my project.

That's why I've put together a collection of the most popular layouts and components that can be built with pure CSS.

These layouts and components are powered by modern CSS features like flexbox and grid, and can be easily customized to fit your specific needs. By combining them, you can create any possible layout you need.

The best part? This collection has zero dependencies, no frameworks, and no CSS hacks. These are real use cases that can save you time and effort in your projects.

About

This project is developed by Nguyen Huu Phuoc. I love building products and sharing knowledge.

Be my friend on

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Top comments (2)

Andrew Baisden • Apr 17 '21

Nice some interesting projects on this list.

Ridoan • Apr 20 '21

Love this list, thanks for sharing

1. utility-types

piotrwitek / utility-types

Collection of utility types, complementing TypeScript built-in mapped types and aliases (think "lodash" for static types).

utility-types

What's new?

Features

Goals

Installation

Compatibility Notes

Funding Issues

2. active-win

sindresorhus / get-windows

Get metadata about the active window and open windows (title, id, bounds, owner, etc)

get-windows

Install

Usage

API

activeWindow(options?)

options

accessibilityPermission (macOS only)

screenRecordingPermission (macOS only)

3. Cheetah Grid

future-architect / cheetah-grid

The fastest open-source data table for web.

Cheetah Grid

Downloading Cheetah Grid

Using Cheetah Grid with a CDN

Downloading Cheetah Grid using npm

Downloading Cheetah Grid source code

Downloading Cheetah Grid using GitHub

git clone

npm install & build

Usage

Example for basic usage

4. Superplate

pankod / superplate

A well-structured production-ready frontend boilerplate with Typescript, React Testing Library, styled-component, React Query, .env, Axios, Bundle Analyzer, Prettier and 30+ plugins. superplate creates projects for React.js, Next.js, and refine. https://pankod.github.io/superplate/

About

Quick Start

Available Integrations

Next.js

5. React Cool Portal

wellyshen / react-cool-portal

😎 🍒 React hook for Portals, which renders modals, dropdowns, tooltips etc. to <body> or else.

REACT COOL PORTAL

Live Demo

Features

6. Lazy Git

jesseduffield / lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands

Sponsors

Elevator Pitch

7. ts-essentials

ts-essentials / ts-essentials

All essential TypeScript types in one place 🤙

ts-essentials

Install

API

Basic

8. Awesome Captcha

ZYSzys / awesome-captcha

🔑 Curated list of awesome captcha libraries and crack tools.

Awesome Captcha

Contents

Libraries

Generation

9. bundless

remorses / bundless

Dev server and bundler based on esbuild

bundless

Features

What's the difference with traditional tools like Webpack?

What's the difference with tools like vite?

10. CSS Layout

phuocng / csslayout

A collection of popular layouts and patterns made with CSS. Now it has 100+ patterns and continues growing!

CSS Layout

About

Stargazing 📈

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