Shahed Nasser

Posted on Apr 7, 2022

What's an Open Source Project You Think Deserves More Support?

#discuss #opensource

There are many open source projects out there and a lot of them act as alternatives for popular commercial platforms. Regardless of what functionalities they provide, they're powered by people who believe in the open source community and want to work with it to create great products for everyone to use.

What are some open source projects do you guys think developers should give more support too? Or what are just some of your favorites?

I personally have lots of love for Strapi. I know they're popular enough at this point but I still love giving them a shout out when possible 🫶🏻

Top comments (25)

Sherry Day • Apr 7 '22

I think Svelte has a lot of momentum, but doesn't have quite as much support as some of its peers

Svelte is a free and open-source front end compiler created by Rich Harris and maintained by the Svelte core team members. Svelte is not a monolithic JavaScript library imported by applications: instead, Svelte compiles HTML templates to specialized code that manipulates the DOM directly, which may reduce the size of transferred files and give better client performance; application code is also processed by the compiler, inserting calls to automatically recompute data and re-render UI elements when the data they depend on is modified. This also avoids the overhead associated with runtime intermediate representations, such as virtual DOM, unlike traditional frameworks which carry out the bulk of their work at runtime, i.e in the browser. The compiler itself is written in TypeScript. Its source code is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub.

K-Sato • Apr 8 '22

Came here to write svelte as welL!

murunwas • Apr 8 '22

Sending some ❤️❤️❤️ to svelte team and contributors

tzwel • Apr 13 '22

sveltekit needs more traction

Shahed Nasser • Apr 7 '22

That is very true. I still haven’t gotten into Svelte yet (I’m planning to at some point) but I do see a lot of people talking about it

tzwel • Apr 14 '22 • Edited

try it, it's VERY easy and gets stuff done quickly and is very performant, that's my dream framework

svelte.dev has an excellent tutorial about svelte (it's the official site)

if you need a framework for more complex projects (I find svelte best for SPAs) try sveltekit

Shahed Nasser • Apr 15 '22

Cool thanks for the tip!

Liviu Lupei • Apr 7 '22 • Edited

The ones that are not owned by for-profit corporations.

We all know there are 2 types of open source projects out there:

The ones built by actual communities of developers.
The ones built by for-profit corporations, that use it as a Lead Magnet / Honeypot.

apollo79 • Apr 10 '22

Solid.js and Deno in my opinion

solidjs / solid

A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

Website • API Docs • Features Tutorial • Playground • Discord

Solid is a declarative JavaScript library for creating user interfaces. Instead of using a Virtual DOM, it compiles its templates to real DOM nodes and updates them with fine-grained reactions. Declare your state and use it throughout your app, and when a piece of state changes, only the code that depends on it will rerun. Check out our intro video or read on!

Key Features

Fine-grained updates to the real DOM
Declarative data: model your state as a system with reactive primitives
Render-once mental model: your components are regular JavaScript functions that run once to set up your view
Automatic dependency tracking: accessing your reactive state subscribes to it
Small and fast
Simple: learn a few powerful concepts that can be reused, combined, and built on top of
Provides modern framework features like JSX, fragments, Context, Portals, Suspense, streaming…

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denoland / deno

A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

Deno

Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.

Features

Secure by default. No file, network, or environment access, unless explicitly enabled.
Supports TypeScript out of the box.
Ships only a single executable file.
Built-in utilities.
Set of reviewed standard modules that are guaranteed to work with Deno.

Install

Shell (Mac, Linux):

curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh

PowerShell (Windows):

irm https://deno.land/install.ps1 | iex

Homebrew (Mac):

brew install deno

Chocolatey (Windows):

choco install deno

Scoop (Windows):

scoop install deno

Build and install from source using Cargo:

cargo install deno --locked

See deno_install and releases for other options.

Getting Started

Try running a simple program:

deno run https://deno.land/std/examples/welcome.ts

Or a more complex one:

const listener = Deno.listen({ port: 8000 });
console.log("http://localhost:8000/")

…

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Saman Ray • Apr 7 '22

Haskell libraries in my opinion.

Camco • Apr 8 '22

HASKELL is Awesome. It come be a leader with a bit more support!

MiguelMJ • Apr 8 '22

Prolog interpreters!

Richard Kovacs • Apr 9 '22 • Edited

Trousseau is an open-source project leveraging the Kubernetes KMS provider framework to connect with Key Management Services the Kubernetes native way. It supports Hashicorp Vault at the moment, would be nice to support others as well, to turn Kubernetes secrets to encrypted ones for production usage.
github.com/ondat/trousseau

Itay Elbirt • Apr 9 '22 • Edited

Benthos. More exposure is the best you can do for it.
benthos.dev/

Ayman Bouchareb • Apr 8 '22

Wasmer

Thiago Avelino • Apr 14 '22 • Edited

avelino / awesome-go

A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

Awesome Go

We use the Golang Bridge community slack for instant communication, follow the form here to join.

Sponsorships:

Special thanks to

Quit struggling with scattered API keys and access controls. _{Keep your secrets in sync across environments, servers, and teams with Doppler.}	Work from anywhere in the world with top tech companies like Riot Games, Coinbase, and Google.
Your app, enterprise-ready. _{Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code.} ^{Add Single Sign-On (and more) in minutes instead of months.}	A dead-simple software licensing and distribution API built for developers _{Securely license and distribute Go applications with a single API.} ^{Add auto updates with only a few lines of code.}
	workflow smarter, not harder _{Make the switch from one-size-fits-all CI/CD to PaaS} ^{workflows & turn k8s into a powerful developer experience} ^{that will measurably increase developer productivity by 200%}

Awesome Go has no monthly fee…

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Sanath Kumar U • Apr 9 '22

Lit js (lit.dev) and Appwrite in my opinion.Both are great projects definitely worth trying out.

Thiago Avelino • Apr 14 '22

prest / prest

PostgreSQL ➕ REST, low-code, simplify and accelerate development, ⚡ instant, realtime, high-performance on any Postgres application, existing or new

pREST

pREST (PostgreSQL REST), simplify and accelerate development, instant, realtime, high-performance on any Postgres application, existing or new

PostgreSQL version 9.4 or higher

Contributor License Agreement -

Problem

There is PostgREST written in Haskell, but keeping Haskell software in production is not an easy job. With this need pREST was born. Read more.

Test using Docker

To simplify the process of bringing up the test environment we will use docker-compose

# Download docker compose file
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prest/prest/main/docker-compose-prod.yml -O docker-compose.yml
# Up (run) PostgreSQL and prestd
docker-compose up
# Run data migration to create user structure for access (JWT)
docker-compose exec prest prestd migrate up auth

# Create user and password for API access (via JWT)
## user: prest
## pass: prest
docker-compose exec postgres psql -d prest -U prest -c "INSERT INTO prest_users (name, username, password) VALUES ('pREST Full Name', 'prest', MD5('prest'))

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Thiago Avelino • Apr 14 '22

avelino / moclojer

Simple and efficient HTTP mock server with specification in yaml, edn or OpenAPI

moclojer

Simple and efficient HTTP mock server with specification in yaml, edn or OpenAPI.

💾 Download the binary with the latest version of moclojer to test on your computer here.

📖 See the complete documentation for moclojer here, if you want to contribute (or complement) the documentation, it is here.

YAML example

# This mock register route: GET /hello/:username
- endpoint:
    # Note: the method could be omitted because GET is the default
    method: GET
    path: /hello/:username
    response:
      # Note: the status could be omitted because 200 is the default
      status: 200
      headers:
        Content-Type: application/json
      # Note: the body will receive the value passed in the url using the
      # :username placeholder
      body: >
        {
          "hello": "{{path-params.username}}!"
        }

docker

image: ghcr.io/avelino/moclojer:latest

docker run -it \
  -v $(pwd)/moclojer.yml:/app/moclojer.yml \
  ghcr.io/avelino/moclojer:latest

💻 dev environment

We use…

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vikas • Apr 9 '22

Frappe framework - frappeframework.com

If you wanna build an application fast which is loaded with features.. Frappe is the way to go.

VanPonasenkov • Apr 8 '22

I prefer to use the term "free" instead of "open source", but here are my 5 cents.
I think that Plan9 from user space is a really underrated project. While GNU-coreutils has more programs, they are a bit bloated compared to p9