ascii-tables vs spark-joy

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ascii-tables		spark-joy
	Project
4	Mentions	37
587	Stars	9,213
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	6.8
9 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
-	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ascii-tables

Posts with mentions or reviews of ascii-tables. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-12.

MathJax – Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023
Go To Software/Tools for Programmers
3 projects | /r/PLC | 4 Apr 2023

https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/ Keeps the function headers tidy
creating a literature-list first in Excel - then porting it over to notion - how to proceed?
1 project | /r/excel | 19 Feb 2023

when i try to create a spreadsheet - online here https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/
Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2022

spark-joy

Posts with mentions or reviews of spark-joy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.

Just paying Figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023

what about Excalidraw / TLDraw? there are so many of these canvas drawing apps[1]. draw on them, take a screenshot. doesnt export to svg but do people really need that?
[1]: https://github.com/swyxio/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#ge...
Show HN: React95 – a React components library recreating the look of Windows 95
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2023
Show HN: Databasediagram.com – Private, Text to Entity-Relationship Diagram Tool
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2023

ive been a keeping a list of other diagramming tools too https://github.com/swyxio/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#di...
Product design and UX design resources – Degreeless.Design
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 May 2023

i've been keeping my own resource list for a few years: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/
just offering for anyone else interested!
Show HN: Neat, the Minimalist CSS Framework
18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2023
i collect these for fun! adding to my collection https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#dro...
more like this:
```
  -  https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/ mvp.css
```
Aplicando o Learn In Public na vida real
1 project | dev.to | 16 Feb 2023
Poline – esoteric color palette generator
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2023
Charts.css: CSS data visualization framework
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Oct 2022
Feather – Simply beautiful open source icons
18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2022

my list of icon resources here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#ico...
Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2022

ok this is a fantatsic solution. took me a while to get why this is better than joshwcomeau's solution, but now i am using this as my default.
(dont wanna seem too pluggy but just sharing my cumulative css notes: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/ i dont make money from this)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ascii-tables and spark-joy you can also consider the following projects:

enigma-bbs - ENiGMA½ BBS Software

dagre-svg

markdown-table - Generate a markdown (GFM) table

TuiCss - Text-based user interface CSS library

asciiflow - ASCIIFlow

mcg - Material Design Palette/Theme Generator - AngularJS, React, Ember, Vue, Android, Flutter & More!

wtf-tui - Text-based UI tool for configuring the WTF terminal dashboard

fontsource - Self-host Open Source fonts in neatly bundled NPM packages.

latex-to-html

NES.css - NES-style CSS Framework | ファミコン風CSSフレームワーク

ditaa - ditaa is a small command-line utility that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art ('drawings' that contain characters that resemble lines like | / - ), into proper bitmap graphics.

tints.dev - 10-color Palette Generator and API for Tailwind CSS