🚀10 Trending projects on GitHub for web developers - 18th September 2020

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1. React Pro Sidebar

Customizable and responsive react sidebar library with dropdown menus and unlimited number of nested submenus

azouaoui-med / react-pro-sidebar

Customizable and responsive react sidebar library with dropdown menus and unlimited number of nested submenus

React Pro Sidebar

Customizable and responsive react sidebar library with dropdown menus and unlimited number of nested submenus

Demo

Live preview

Screenshot

Installation

yarn

yarn add react-pro-sidebar

npm

npm install react-pro-sidebar

Usage

import { ProSidebar, Menu, MenuItem, SubMenu } from 'react-pro-sidebar';
import 'react-pro-sidebar/dist/css/styles.css';

<ProSidebar>
  <Menu iconShape="square">
    <MenuItem icon={<FaGem />}>Dashboard</MenuItem>
    <SubMenu title="Components" icon={<FaHeart />}>
      <MenuItem>Component 1</MenuItem>
      <MenuItem>Component 2</MenuItem>
    </SubMenu>
  </Menu>
</ProSidebar>;

If you are using sass then you can import the styles.scss directly into your scss file

@import '~react-pro-sidebar/dist/scss/styles.scss';

Sidebar Layout

You can take advantage of the sidebar layout components…

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2. Conquer of Completion

Make your Vim/Neovim as smart as VSCode.

neoclide / coc.nvim

Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

Make your Vim/Neovim as smart as VSCode.

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True snippet and additional text editing support

Why?

• 🚀 Fast: instant increment completion, increment buffer sync using buffer update events.
• 💎 Reliable: typed language, tested with CI.
• 🌟 Featured: full LSP support
• ❤️ Flexible: configured like VSCode, extensions work like in VSCode

Quick Start

Install nodejs >= 12.12:

curl -sL install-node.now.sh/lts | bash

For vim-plug users:

" Use release branch (recommend)
Plug 'neoclide/coc.nvim', {'branch': 'release'}
" Or build from source code by using yarn: https://yarnpkg.com
Plug 'neoclide/coc.nvim', {'branch': 'master', 'do': 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile'}

in your .vimrc or init.vim, then restart Vim and run :PlugInstall.

Checkout Install coc.nvim for more info.

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3. Bot Framework SDK

Bot Framework provides the most comprehensive experience for building conversation applications.With the Bot Framework SDK, developers can build bots that converse free-form or with guided interactions including using simple text or rich cards that contain text, images, and action buttons.

microsoft / botframework-sdk

Bot Framework provides the most comprehensive experience for building conversation applications.

What's new with Bot Framework?

Bot Framework provides the most comprehensive experience for building conversation applications.

With the Bot Framework SDK, developers can build bots that converse free-form or with guided interactions including using simple text or rich cards that contain text, images, and action buttons.

Developers can model and build sophisticated conversation using their favorite programming languages including C#, JS, Python and Java or using Bot Framework Composer, an open-source, visual authoring canvas for developers and multi-disciplinary teams to design and build conversational experiences with Language Understanding, QnA Maker and sophisticated composition of bot replies (Language Generation).

Checkout the Bot Framework ecosystem section to learn more about other tooling and services related to the Bot Framework SDK.

Quicklinks

| Bot Framework Composer | C# Repo | JS Repo | Python Repo | Java Repo | BF CLI |

Bot Framework SDK v4

The Bot Framework SDK v4…

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4. Swiper

Swiper is the free and most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions and amazing native behavior. It is intended to be used in mobile websites, mobile web apps, and mobile native/hybrid apps.

nolimits4web / swiper

Most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions

Get Started | Documentation | Demos

Swiper

Swiper - is the free and most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions and amazing native behavior. It is intended to be used in mobile websites, mobile web apps, and mobile native/hybrid apps.

Swiper is not compatible with all platforms, it is a modern touch slider which is focused only on modern apps/platforms to bring the best experience and simplicity.

Sponsors

Features

• Tree-shakeable: Only modules you use will be imported into your app's bundle.
• Mobile-friendly: It is intended to be used in mobile websites, mobile web apps, and mobile native/hybrid apps.
• Library Agnostic: Swiper doesn't require any JavaScript libraries like jQuery, which makes Swiper much smaller and faster. It can be safely used with libraries such as jQuery, Zepto, jQuery Mobile, etc
• 1:1 Touch movement: By default, Swiper provides 1:1 touch movement interaction, but this ratio can…

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5. Strapi

API creation made simple, secure and fast. The most advanced open-source headless CMS to build powerful APIs with no effort.

strapi / strapi

🚀 Open source Node.js Headless CMS to easily build customisable APIs

API creation made simple, secure and fast.

The most advanced open-source headless CMS to build powerful APIs with no effort.

Try live demo

Strapi is a free and open-source headless CMS delivering your content anywhere you need.

• Keep control over your data. With Strapi, you know where your data is stored, and you keep full control at all times.
• Self-hosted. You can host and scale Strapi projects the way you want. You can choose any hosting platform you want: AWS, Render, Heroku, a VPS, or a dedicated server. You can scale as you grow, 100% independent.
• Database agnostic. You can choose the database you prefer. Strapi works with SQL & NoSQL databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite.
• Customizable. You can quickly build your logic by fully customizing APIs, routes, or plugins to fit your needs perfectly.

Getting Started

Read the Getting Started tutorial or follow…

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6. Day.js

Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API

iamkun / dayjs

⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API

English | 简体中文 | 日本語 | Português Brasileiro | 한국어 | Español (España) | Русский

Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API

Day.js is a minimalist JavaScript library that parses, validates, manipulates, and displays dates and times for modern browsers with a largely Moment.js-compatible API. If you use Moment.js, you already know how to use Day.js.

dayjs().startOf('month').add(1, 'day').set('year', 2018).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss');

• 🕒 Familiar Moment.js API & patterns
• 💪 Immutable
• 🔥 Chainable
• 🌐 I18n support
• 📦 2kb mini library
• 👫 All browsers supported

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Getting Started

Documentation

You can find for more details, API, and other docs on day.js.org website.

Installation

npm install dayjs --save

📚Installation Guide

API

It's easy to use Day.js APIs to parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times.

dayjs

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7. SurveyJS

SurveyJS is a modern way to add surveys and forms to your website. It has versions for angular2+, jQuery, knockout, react and vue.

surveyjs / survey-library

JavaScript Survey and Form Library

SurveyJS is a JavaScript Survey and Form Library.

SurveyJS is a modern way to add surveys and forms to your website. It has versions for Angular, jQuery, knockout, react and vue.

Documentation

SurveyJS Library Documentation

Live Examples

SurveyJS Library Live Examples

Survey Creator / Form Builder

Create your Survey or Form now

Survey Creator sources are here

Export Survey to PDF

Export to PDF overview

Export to PDF sources are here

More info about SurveyJS

SurveyJS is the most feature-rich Survey / Form Library available at the current moment. It can be easily customized and extended to suit your needs.

Main Features

A lot of question types with a lot of built-in functionalities.

• Text Question
• Radigroup Question
• Dropdown Question
• Checkboxes Question
• Boolean Question
• Matrix Question
• Matrix Rubric Question
• Matrix Dropdown Question
• Matrix Dynamic Question
• Multiple Text Question
• Rating Question
• Ranking Question
• Comment Question
• Html Question
• Files uploading Question
• Panel Container
• …

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8. Hamburgers

Hamburgers is a collection of tasty CSS-animated hamburger icons. Also included is the source as a Sass library. It’s modular and customizable, so cook up your own hamburger.

jonsuh / hamburgers

Tasty CSS-animated Hamburgers

Hamburgers

Hamburgers is a collection of tasty CSS-animated hamburger icons. Also included is the source as a Sass library. It’s modular and customizable, so cook up your own hamburger.

Table of Contents

• Usage
• Sass
• Customization
• Accessibility
• Browser Support

Usage

1. Download and include the CSS in the <head> of your site:

<link href="dist/hamburgers.css" rel="stylesheet">

2. Add the base hamburger markup:

<button class="hamburger" type="button">
  <span class="hamburger-box">
    <span class="hamburger-inner"></span>
  </span>
</button>  

You can use <div>s if you insist, but they’re not accessible as a menu button.

<div class="hamburger">
  <div class="hamburger-box">
    <div class="hamburger-inner"></div>
  </div>
</div>

3. Append the class name…

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9. Hover.css

A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects to be applied to links, buttons, logos, SVG, featured images and so on. Easily apply to your own elements, modify or just use for inspiration. Available in CSS, Sass, and LESS.

IanLunn / Hover

A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects to be applied to links, buttons, logos, SVG, featured images and so on. Easily apply to your own elements, modify or just use for inspiration. Available in CSS, Sass, and LESS.

Hover.css

A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects to be applied to links, buttons, logos, SVG, featured images and so on. Easily apply to your own elements, modify or just use for inspiration. Available in CSS, Sass, and LESS.

Demo | Tutorial

Contents

• Download/Install
• How To Use
  • A. Copy and Paste an Effect
  • B. Reference Hover.css
  • A Note on the display property
  • Using Icon Effects
• What's Included?
  • css
  • scss/less
  • Other
• Browser Support
• Using Grunt for Development
• Using Sass/LESS for Development
  • _hacks
  • _mixins
  • _options
• Contribute to Hover.css
• Licenses
  • Commercial License
  • Open-Source License
• Hire Ian Lunn

Download/Install

• NPM: npm install hover.css --save
• Bower: bower install hover --save
• Download Zip

How To Use

Hover.css can be used in a number of ways; either copy and paste the effect you'd like to use in your own stylesheet or reference the stylesheet. Then just add the class name of the effect to the element you'd…

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10. Admin Bro

AdminBro is An automatic admin interface which can be plugged into your application. You, as a developer, provide database models (like posts, comments, stores, products or whatever else your application uses), and AdminBro generates UI which allows you (or other trusted users) to manage content.

SoftwareBrothers / adminjs

AdminBro is an admin panel for apps written in node.js

AdminJS

AdminJS is An automatic admin interface which can be plugged into your application. You, as a developer, provide database models (like posts, comments, stores, products or whatever else your application uses), and AdminJS generates UI which allows you (or other trusted users) to manage content.

Inspired by: django admin, rails admin and active admin.

How it looks

Example application

Check out the example application with mongodb and postgres models here:

• login: [e-mail]
• password: password

https://demo.adminjs.co/admin

Getting Started

• Check out the documentation
• Try the live demo as mentioned above

OpenSource SoftwareBrothers community

• Join the community to get help and be inspired.
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What kind of problems it solves

So you have a working service built in Node.js. It uses (for example) Hapi.js for rendering a couple of REST routes and mongoose as the connector to the database.

Everything works fine, but now you would like…

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Comments

[Juan F Gonzalez]

Great resources as always Iain! I was aware of CoC and Strapi and have used Hover.css it-s definitely a great library. Gotta check the other resources as well
Thanks!

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