slap
Sublime-like terminal-based text editor (by slap-editor)
alex
Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing (by get-alex)
Our great sponsors
slap | alex | |
---|---|---|
5 | 10 | |
6,123 | 4,752 | |
0.0% | 0.5% | |
0.0 | 4.0 | |
over 2 years ago | 5 months ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT 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.
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.
slap
Posts with mentions or reviews of slap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-18.
-
Command line applications
Yes, you can create whatever you want - from simple CLI utils , through moderately complex interactive tools (example by me), to complex, full-fledged command line applications (example, another example).
- Anyone down to revive this? Feels like in 2022, there's still a need for this. Seems like it's been dead for a few years. Cannot be installed anymore.
-
Admit it, you only edit .CONF files with it anyway...
In that spirit: I just found Slap (https://github.com/slap-editor/slap). Looks cool, but haven't installed it yet. Clearly best editor ever!!! Obviously better than vim.
-
Micro - Text Editor
There is also the slap editor which tries to mimic Sublime in the terminal, but it's very bloated and seems to have been abandoned.
alex
Posts with mentions or reviews of alex.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-21.
-
Markdown Bot - An AI friend who improves your content
Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing with tools like alex
- AlexJS: Catch Insensitive, Inconsiderate Writing
-
A ChatGPT GitHub Action for Reviewing Text for Potentially Discriminatory Language
This story has been a motivating principle behind my life for a long time, and therefore, whenever I've worked on docs, I've thought about how I could ensure that exclusionary words, even unintentionally, did not make their way into the final copy. During my time at Nexmo, a communications API company, I introduced Alex, an NPM package that helps you identify potentially exclusionary language in your writing, into the CI/CD pipeline for the documentation.
-
What external tools do you use in your workflow?
As a philosophy student: Zotero for reference management, the Better BibTeX plugin to auto-generate a .bib file, and two language servers for diagnostics: LTeX for grammar- and spellchecking, and alex for style and sensitivity checking.
-
JavaScript library that converts a string to gender-neutral language?
When using it as a lib you can pass a markdown string (https://github.com/get-alex/alex#markdownvalue-config) or raw text string (https://github.com/get-alex/alex#textvalue-config). This will return an object that should contain everything you need to perform a naive replacement.
-
Detect Non-Inclusive Language with Retext and Node.js
alex is a lovely command-line tool that takes in text or markdown files and, using retext-equality and retext-profanities, highlights suggestions for improvement. alex checks for gendered work titles, gendered proverbs, ableist language, condescending or intolerant language, profanities, and much more.
-
The Actual Mind of the Algorithm (Cortex 132)
Heck, he could even go so far and start using GitHub's automation system (Actions) to run some check on his writing. (Maybe something like alexjs)
-
Mod fight over pronoun flairs in /r/programminghorror
I've been a part of several code clean-ups where giant code bases needed to be changed to considerate language. I've never once encountered a bad actor when the actual work got underway. Part of being a programmer is to question the reasoning behind large changes but any programmer worth their salt understands the big picture if you can clearly explain it. I wouldn't read too much into the actions of a few people in any programming subreddit who are opposed to pronouns. Those people will always exist. I'm certain that the vast majority of programmers in those subs are either strongly in favour of gendered pronouns or are apathetic toward it. To drive home the point, the fight for considerate language has been driven by developers themselves. All these wonderful tools such as alex.js or even org level changes inside big companies are part of it.
-
Markdown Linting
alex
What are some alternatives?
When comparing slap and alex you can also consider the following projects:
torrent - download torrents with node from the CLI
http-server - a simple zero-configuration command-line http server
wifi-password - Get current wifi password
np - A better `npm publish`
Live Server - A simple development http server with live reload capability.
Standard - 🌟 JavaScript Style Guide, with linter & automatic code fixer
David - :eyeglasses: Node.js module that tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
speed-test - Test your internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net from the CLI
iponmap - commandline IP location finder