The 52 most popular projects from the last year of Trending Projects

May 25

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For the last year, I have been curating Trending projects a newsletter that showcases 10 popular web development projects each week.

The following list highlights the project that received the most click-throughs from each issue.

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21st May 2021

Week 52

Docz makes it easy to write and publish beautiful interactive documentation for your code. Create MDX files showcasing your code and Docz turns them into a live-reloading, production-ready site.

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14th May 2021

Week 51

Slidev

Presentation Slides for Developers

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7th May 2021

Week 50

Keystone

The most powerful headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React

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30th April 2021

Week 49

Script Kit

Automation for Developers, Automate Anything! Making scripts easy to run, write, and share

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23rd April 2021

Week 48

git-tips

Most commonly used git tips and tricks.

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16th April 2021

Week 47

CSS Layout

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

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9th April 2021

Week 46

The tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps, in a single 2mb file with no dependencies.

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2nd April 2021

Week 45

Crank.js

Write JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators.

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26th March 2021

Week 44

The Magic of CSS

A CSS course to turn you into a magician.

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19th March 2021

Week 43

Awesome Design Tools

The best design tools and plugins for everything

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12th March 2021

Week 42

Sweet Alert

A beautiful replacement for JavaScript’s “alert”

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5th March 2021

Week 41

The Art of Node

A short introduction to node.js

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26th February 2021

Week 40

Serverless Stack (SST)

Serverless Stack (SST) is a framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps.

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19th February 2021

Week 39

Devicons

An iconic font made for developers. Devicons contains 85 vectorized sharp glyphs . Devicons iconic font is free to use and licensed under MIT.

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12th February 2021

Week 38

Oasis Engine

Oasis Engine is a web-first and mobile-first high-performance real-time development platform.

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5th February 2021

Week 37

Flexbox Patterns

Patterns for using flexbox CSS to build awesome UI components.

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29th January 2021

Week 36

Lazy Collections

Collection of fast and lazy operations

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22nd January 2021

Week 35

Naming cheatsheet

Naming things is hard. This sheet attempts to make it easier.. Although these suggestions can be applied to any programming language, I will use JavaScript to illustrate them in practice.

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15th January 2021

Week 34

builder.io

Drag and drop page building using your code components. Bring your design systems to life!

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8th January 2021

Week 33

Software Developer Folio

A clean, beautiful and responsive portfolio template for Developers.

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1st January 2021

Week 32

TypeScript Deep Dive

The definitive guide to TypeScript and possibly the best TypeScript book. Free and Open Source

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24th December 2020

Week 31

Prisma

Prisma Client can be used in any Node.js or TypeScript backend application (including serverless applications and microservices). This can be a REST API, a GraphQL API a gRPC API or anything else that needs a database.

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18th December 2020

Week 30

50 Projects in 50 Days - HTML/CSS and JavaScript

50+ mini web projects using HTML, CSS & JS

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11th December 2020

Week 29

Elastic UI Framework

The Elastic UI Framework is a collection of React UI components for quickly building user interfaces at Elastic. Not using React? No problem! You can still use the CSS behind each component.

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4th December 2020

Week 28

You-need-to-know-css

CSS tricks for web developers

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27th November 2020

Week 27

Layr is a set of JavaScript/TypeScript libraries to dramatically simplify the development of full-stack applications.

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20th November 2020

Week 26

The Book of Secret Knowledge

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.

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13th November 2020

Week 25

Aleph.js

The React Framework in Deno.

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6th November 2020

Week 24

Lando

A local development and DevOps tool for all your projects that is fast, easy, powerful and liberating

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30th October 2020

Week 23

Vanilla Todo

A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development.

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23rd October 2020

Week 22

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.

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16th October 2020

Week 21

Pre-trained TensorFlow.js models

This repository hosts a set of pre-trained models that have been ported to TensorFlow.js. The models are hosted on NPM and unpkg so they can be used in any project out of the box. They can be used directly or used in a transfer learning setting with TensorFlow.js.

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9th October 2020

Week 20

Water.css

A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites just a little nicer

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2nd October 2020

Week 19

reveal.js

reveal.js is an open source HTML presentation framework. It enables anyone with a web browser to create fully featured and beautiful presentations for free.

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25th September 2020

Week 18

Front End Interview Handbook

While there are some existing resources to help front end developers in preparing for interviews, they aren't as abundant as materials for a software engineer interview. Among the existing resources, probably the most helpful question bank would be Front-end Developer Interview Questions. Unfortunately, I couldn't find many complete and satisfactory answers to these questions online, hence here is my attempt at answering them.

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18th September 2020

Week 17

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.

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11th September 2020

Week 16

Boilerplate App for SaaS Product

Open source web app that saves you weeks of work when building your own SaaS product.

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4th September 2020

Week 15

Project Guidelines

While developing a new project is like rolling on a green field for you, maintaining it is a potential dark twisted nightmare for someone else. Here's a list of guidelines we've found, written and gathered that (we think) works really well with most JavaScript projects

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28th August 2020

Week 14

Carbon Design System

Carbon is an open-source design system built by IBM. With the IBM Design Language as its foundation, the system consists of working code, design tools and resources, human interface guidelines, and a vibrant community of contributors.

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21st August 2020

Week 13

Design resources for developers

Curated list of design and UI resources from stock photos, web templates, CSS frameworks, UI libraries, tools and much more.

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14th August 2020

Week 12

Tailblocks

Ready-to-use Tailwind CSS blocks,15 different categories (ecommerce, blog, pricing and more...), responsive, dark/light mode and color variations.

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7th August 2020

Week 11

Ink provides the same component-based UI building experience that React offers in the browser, but for command-line apps. It uses Yoga to build Flexbox layouts in the terminal, so most CSS-like props are available in Ink as well. If you are already familiar with React, you already know Ink.

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31st July 2020