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Node-RED
Low-code programming for event-driven applications
Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click. Node-RED provides a browser-based flow editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette. Flows can be then deployed to the runtime in a single-click. JavaScript functions can be created within the editor using a rich text editor. A built-in library allows you to save useful functions, templates or flows for re-use. The light-weight runtime is built on Node.js, taking full advantage of its event-driven, non-blocking model. This makes it ideal to run at the edge of the network on low-cost hardware such as the Raspberry Pi as well as in the cloud. -
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Pencil
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free tool
Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms. The latest stable version of Pencil is 3.1.0 which contains stability fixes and many new features. More details can befound in the releaste notes. Pencil provides various built-in shapes collection for drawing different types of user interface ranging from desktop to mobile platforms. Starting from 2.0.2, Pencil is shipped with Android and iOS UI stencils pre-installed. This makes it even easier to start protyping apps with a simple installation. Starting from 2.0.2 Pencil has even more shape collections included by default. The list of built-in collections now includes general-purpose shapes, flowchart elements, desktop/web UI shapes, Android and iOS GUI shapes. -
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Trilium Notes
Build your personal knowledge base
Trilium is provided as either desktop application (Linux and Windows) or web application hosted on your server (Linux). Mac OS desktop build is available, but it is unsupported. Synchronization with self-hosted sync server, strong note encryption with per-note granularity, relation maps and link maps for visualizing notes and their relations, and scripting, see Advanced showcases. Scales well in both usability and performance upwards of 100 000 notes, touch optimized mobile frontend for smartphones and tablets, night theme, evernote and Markdown import & export, as well as web clipper for easy saving of web content. If you want to use Trilium on the desktop, download binary release for your platform from latest release, unzip the package and run trilium executable. Install the application on both a server, for web access and data synchronization, and desktop instance(s). This allows all the data to be stored on the server. -
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Create React App
Set up a modern web app by running one command
Create React App lets you create React apps quickly and easily-- no learning of build tools or build configurations necessary. All you need is one command, and you can get started in seconds. All tools are preconfigured and hidden, and with instant reloads you can focus on code, not build tools. With Create React App your apps need only one build dependency, so everything works together seamlessly, and when it’s time to deploy your bundles are automatically optimized. With Create React App it’s easy to start and easy to “eject”, if ever you want an advanced configuration and edit config files directly. It’s also very easy to maintain, as you only need a single command to upgrade to new versions. -
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Summernote
Super simple WYSIWYG editor
Simply download and attach your js, css with bootstrap. Customize by Initializing various options and modules. Summernote is licensed under MIT and maintained by the community. Integrate it with any back-end. 3rd parties available in django, rails, angular. Bootstrap uses certain HTML elements and CSS properties which require HTML5 doctype. Summernote uses the Open Source libraries jQuery and Bootstrap, if you are using the Boostrap 3 or 4 versions of Summernote, or just jQuery if you use the Lite version of Summernote. Summernote allows you to customize the toolbar. You can compose a toolbar with pre-shipped buttons. Air-mode give an interface without the Toolbar. To reveal popover Toolbar, select a text where you want to modify. Simply turn on airMode and just focus on text. Styles change according to Bootstraps Theme. The editor uses the Bootswatch Themes based on Bootstrap 3, you can also do the same with Bootstrap 4. -
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Brunch
Web applications made easy
Brunch lets you focus on what matters most, solving real problems instead of messing around with the glue. By being opinionated about your build pipeline, Brunch is able to provide a smooth and fast experience, and makes your config files take a drastic cut. It doesn't take much to get around with brunch. 'brunch new' to create a new project. 'brunch build' to build. 'brunch watch' to live-compile. Installation is one-line, once you have node.js. You will find that the typical config of a Brunch application is an order of magnitude simpler, compared to Webpack, Grunt, or Gulp. Besides configs, brunch is also simpler in terms of commands. Grunt / Gulp commands replicate all plugins it loads. Brunch always has three commands: new, build and watch. Build / watch commands may receive optional production flag which will tell Brunch to optimize assets, javascripts and stylesheets. -
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V Programming Language
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing software
Simple language for building maintainable programs. You can learn the entire language by going through the documentation over a weekend, and in most cases, there's only one way to do something. This results in simple, readable, and maintainable code. Despite being simple, V gives a lot of power to the developer and can be used in pretty much every field, including systems programming, webdev, gamedev, GUI, mobile, science, embedded, tooling, etc. V avoids doing unnecessary allocations in the first place by using value types, and string buffers, promoting a simple abstraction-free code style. Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's auto-free engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. A remaining small percentage of objects is freed via GC. The developer doesn't need to change anything in their code. "It just works", like in Python, Go, or Java, except there's no heavy GC tracing everything or expensive RC for each object. -
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vConsole
A lightweight, extendable front-end developer tool for mobile web page
vConsole is a lightweight, extendable front-end developer tool for mobile web page. A plugin allows you to add a new tab, add one or more tool button(s). You can customize the functions of the tab and buttons. After imported, vConsole should be inited manually. When vConsole is not loaded, logs will be printed to native console. After importing vConsole, logs will be printed to both front-end console and native console. Some useful vConsole properties and methods are available for plugin development. You can destroy an vConsole instance object and remove vConsole panel from document. You can also add a new plugin to vConsole. Duplicate plugin will be ignored. Create an vConsole plugin object, bind plugin events to this object, and add this object to vConsole. While installing and running a plugin, vConsole will trigger some events to allow a plugin customizing it's functions. -
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Didact
A DIY guide to build your own React
Didact is an educational JavaScript project that teaches developers how to build a small React-like library from scratch. It accompanies a series of explanatory posts that break down React concepts step by step. The project covers rendering DOM elements, element creation, JSX, virtual DOM behavior, reconciliation, components, state, Fiber-style incremental reconciliation, and hooks. Its goal is not to replace React, but to make React’s internal ideas easier to understand through a compact implementation. The repository includes code samples and diffs that help learners follow the evolution of the system across lessons. Didact is best suited for developers who want to deepen their understanding of frontend frameworks by rebuilding their core mechanics manually. -
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Marked
A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed
A low-level markdown compiler for parsing markdown without caching or blocking for long periods of time. Light-weight while implementing all markdown features from the supported flavors & specifications. Available as a command-line interface (CLI) and running in client- or server-side JavaScript projects. The only completely secure system is the one that doesn't exist in the first place. Having said that, we take the security of Marked very seriously. To prevent ReDoS attacks you can run marked on a worker and terminate it when parsing takes longer than usual. Marked can be run in a worker thread on a node server, or a web worker in a browser. Only current and LTS Node.js versions are supported. End-of-life Node.js versions may become incompatible with Marked at any point in time. -
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Relay
JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications
Relay is data-fetching turned declarative. Components declare their data dependencies, without worrying about how to fetch them. Relay guarantees that the data each component needs is fetched and available. This keeps components decoupled and promotes reuse. With Relay, components and their data dependencies can be quickly modified without modifying other parts of the system. That means you won't accidentally break other components as you refactor or make changes to your app. Relay's compiler aggregates and optimizes the data requirements for your entire app, so that they can be efficiently fetched in a single GraphQL request. Relay handles the heavy lifting to ensure the data declared by your components is fetched in the most efficient way. For example, by deduplicating identical fields, and precomputing information used at runtime, among other optimizations. Relay also supports executing GraphQL Mutations, optionally with optimistic updates, and updates to local data. -
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Vulcan
A toolkit to quickly build apps with React, GraphQL & Meteor
Vulcan is a framework that gives you a set of tools for quickly building React & GraphQL-based web applications. It can handle data loading, e-mail notifications, automatic form generation, and much more, out of the box. Vulcan is unique in that it spans the full-stack, from the database to the browser. While there exist many excellent back-end frameworks or backend-as-a-service providers, these all still require you to handle the front-end code yourself, including building a set of components to read, write, and display data. However, being full-stack, Vulcan is able to speed up these repetitive tasks by providing a whole range of helper components that are fine-tuned to the Vulcan back-end, and as a result just work out of the box. In order to make working with Vulcan easier (especially when it comes to updating the core packages), you are also free to follow the more complicated “two-repo” pattern, with the two repositories. -
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Browsersync
Keep multiple browsers & devices in sync when building websites
With each web page, device and browser, testing time grows exponentially. From live reloads to URL pushing, form replication to click mirroring, Browsersync cuts out repetitive manual tasks. It’s like an extra pair of hands. Customise an array of sync settings from the UI or command line to create a personalised test environment. Need more control? Browsersync is easily integrated with your web platform, build tools, and other Node.js projects. Built on Node.JS_ENTRY to support Windows, MacOS and Linux. Setup in less than 5 minutes. Browsersync is an open source project available to use under the Apache 2.0 License. Easily integrated with task runners like Grunt and Gulp, or included in other Node projects. Test your website against a slower connection. Even when devices are connected to wifi. Your scroll, click, refresh and form actions are mirrored between browsers while you test. -
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EpicReact.Dev
Build a ReactJS App workshop
EpicReact.Dev is the codebase used in the “Build an Epic React App” workshop, where participants build a complete React application from scratch. The project demonstrates how to structure a modern React app, including data modeling, authentication, routing, testing, and interaction with a backend. It uses a realistic “bookshelf” domain where users can manage lists of books, track reading status, and record notes, which provides a concrete context for learning. The repository includes setup scripts and system requirements checks for Git, Node, and npm, plus Docker and Codespaces options for people who struggle with local environments. A guided workflow, driven by a node go script and INSTRUCTIONS.md, lets learners move between exercises and extra credit steps while the repository updates the working files for each stage. Extensive tests, using Jest in watch mode, help students verify their solutions and learn how to work with test-driven feedback. -
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LoopBack
Build modern applications that require complex integrations
A highly extensible Node.js and TypeScript framework for building APIs and microservices. A brand new LoopBack core to deliver great extensibility and flexibility written in TypeScript/ES2017. Create powerful APIs easily with a new creation experience for defining REST API's and handling API requests/responses. A new, improved programming model with Dependency Injection and new concepts such as Components, Mixins, Repositories, etc. make this the most extensible version yet. Using OpenAPI-to-GraphQL, create a GraphQL interface for any REST API. Schemas are used to create GraphQL data definitions, and links defined in the OAS are used to create a nested structure, allowing for (deeply) nested queries. GraphQL-incompatible identifiers of your API are sanitized. For example, API parameters or data definitions with unsupported characters (e.g., -, ., ,, :, ;...) are removed. -
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PWA
(WIP) Universal PWA Builder
PWA is a “universal, framework-agnostic PWA builder” developed by Luke Edwards (lukeed) that aims to let developers scaffold progressive web apps with minimal friction across different view frameworks or libraries. Unlike many CLI tools that target a specific framework (React, Vue, Svelte), this project intentionally tries to remain agnostic, supporting presets for Preact, React, Vue, Svelte and even vanilla JS, while offering all the PWA boilerplate you need (service workers, manifest, offline support) right out of the box. The project is designed for speed of setup: you run pwa init, choose your preset, then pwa build or pwa watch and you get a production-ready bundle with PWA features baked in. The README emphasizes that modern bundlers (Webpack, Rollup) and ecosystem maturity finally allow a universal CLI of this kind, whereas earlier attempts weren’t practical. -
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YUI 3
A library for building richly interactive web applications
YUI is a free, open source JavaScript and CSS framework for building richly interactive web applications. YUI is provided under a BSD license and is available on GitHub for forking and contribution. YUI's lightweight core and modular architecture make it scalable, fast, and robust. Built by frontend engineers at Yahoo!, YUI powers the most popular websites in the world. YUI's intuitive and well-documented API takes you from basic DOM handling to building performant and maintainable applications on desktop browsers, mobile devices, and servers. A thriving community, a carefully architected infrastructure, and a comprehensive suite of tools help you code like a pro, from simple web pages to complex web applications. YUI is free for all uses and is developed in the open on GitHub. Core team members can always be found in the forums and the #yui IRC channel on Freenode. -
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web-extension-starter
Web Extension starter to build "Write Once Run on Any Browser"
Web Extension starter to build "Write Once Run on Any Browser" extension. Cross Browser Support (Web-Extensions API). Browser Tailored Manifest generation. Automatic build on code changes. Auto packs browser-specific build files. SASS styling. TypeScript by default. ES6 modules support. React UI Library by default. Smart reload. Used by extensions in production that has over 100,000+ users. -
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Compiere ERP+CRM is the leading open source ERP solution for Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing and Service industries. Compiere automates accounting, supply chain, inventory and sales orders. Compiere ERP is distributed under GPL V2 by Compiere, Inc.
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Sass
An extension of CSS, adding nested rules, variables, mixins and more
Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world. Sass is completely compatible with all versions of CSS. We take this compatibility seriously, so that you can seamlessly use any available CSS libraries. Sass boasts more features and abilities than any other CSS extension language out there. The Sass Core Team has worked endlessly to not only keep up, but stay ahead. Sass has been actively supported for over 14 years by its loving Core Team. Over and over again, the industry is choosing Sass as the premier CSS extension language. Sass is actively supported and developed by a consortium of several tech companies and hundreds of developers. There are an endless number of frameworks built with Sass. Compass, Bourbon, and Susy just to name a few. -
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WebDGap
A PhoneGap alternative for Desktop applications.
WebDGap allows you to convert any website or HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application to a native Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome application. WebDGap also gives you the option to export as a Chrome popup extension, and you can export your app or website as a native PhoneGap application making your app available for mobile devices :) -
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kodeWeave
HTML/CSS/JS and Markdown Playground For Web Designers and Developers
kodeWeave is a realtime coding playground for HTML, CSS and Javascript. Similar to JSFiddle and JSBin, but kodeWeave was made to work offline but also as a prototyping application to build applications for desktop operating systems while on mobile devices. (PhoneGap Build is recommended for mobile devices) kodeWeave similar to jsfiddle, jsbin, dabblet, liveweave, codepen, cssdeck, cssdesk, tinkerbin, d3 playground, plunker and pastebin, but allows you to export your web app as a desktop and/or chrome application. -
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the omega xvi project is a javascript debugger written in javascript. it can debug code, execute blocks of code or entire applications, as well as detect variables. because of its javascript nature, it can be run through a webpage, online.
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CMakeScript is an extension to CMake, a cross-platform, open-source build system. CMakeScript adds Java Script as alternative script language to CMake's home-grown macro language. CMakeScript comes with a visual debugger for Java Script.
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A framework for highly customisable e-commerce: A system for automatically build an e-commerce interface supporting product´s contraints and properties.
