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Top 23 JavaScript Backend Projects
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awesome-cheatsheets
👩💻👨💻 Awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks and development tools. They include everything you should know in one single file.
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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Cockpit
Add content management functionality to any site - plug & play / headless / api-first CMS (by agentejo)
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nodejs-integration-tests-best-practices
✅ Beyond the basics of Node.js testing. Including a super-comprehensive best practices list and an example app (March 2024)
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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kuzzle
Open-source Back-end, self-hostable & ready to use - Real-time, storage, advanced search - Web, Apps, Mobile, IoT -
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learn-nodejs-hard-way
Learn and master NodeJS and backend development by creating a backend framework with 0 dependencies.
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nextacular
An open-source starter kit that will help you build full-stack multi-tenant SaaS platforms efficiently and help you focus on developing your core SaaS features. Built on top of popular and modern technologies such as Next JS, Tailwind, Prisma, and Stripe.
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everything-chatgpt
🔍 Explore what happens under the hood with the ChatGPT web app, its backend API calls and more. And some speculation, of course.
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Stackoverflow-Clone-Frontend
Clone project of a famous Q/A website for developers built using MySQL, Express, React, Node, Sequelize :globe_with_meridians:
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i18next-http-backend
i18next-http-backend is a backend layer for i18next using in Node.js, in the browser and for Deno.
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stack-underflow-mern-gql
Feature-rich ‘stack overflow’ (QnA site) clone. Made using MERN + GraphQL stack.
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Stackoverflow-Clone-Backend
Backend code of the Stackoverflow Clone project. Built using Express, Node, MySQL, and Sequelize
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restapify
Quickly and easily deploy a mocked REST API by using an intuitive and developer friendly JSON file structure
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Awesome Cheat Sheets: This curated list of cheat sheets covers a wide range of topics, including programming languages, frameworks, databases, and more, making it a valuable resource for developers of all levels.
Backend as a Service (BaaS) goes back to early 2010’s with companies like Parse and Firebase. These products integrated everything a backend provides to a webapp in a single, integrated package that makes it easier to get started and enables you to offload some of the devops maintenance work to someone else.
Project mention: How "static" are the Azure storage websites and can a basic CMS be used with it? | /r/AZURE | 2023-07-06Hmm...I just tried https://getcockpit.com/, which looks like a super lightweight CMS and PHP doesn't seem to work.
My previous repository Node.js - The hard way received a lot of good feedback from Js/Node developers. However, I noticed that many people were not well versed with Javascript in the first place.
Have you looked at https://mobx-keystone.js.org/ by any chance?
I've been quite enjoying keystone + lit (or react if required) of late and at the very least it feels like solid prior art towards MVC stuff.
Also https://mojojs.org/ for server side.
(I'm not saying "use these" even if I quite enjoy using them myself, but they're my reference points for comparison here)
Project mention: Supercharge Your TypeScript App: Mastering i18next for Type-Safe Translations | dev.to | 2023-06-22A React.js based i18next setup with in-memory translation resources could also look very similar to the above example, so let's raise the bar a little bit and see what a setup with lazy loading translations like with i18next-http-backend looks like:
Project mention: [H] Bayonet Night FT 0.1666 [W] $299 on CSGOfloat | /r/GlobalOffensiveTrade | 2023-07-31B/O $299 on https://csgofloat.com
Project mention: Show HN: Primate – Polymorphic Development Platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
JavaScript Backend related posts
- Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app
- Show HN: Primate – Polymorphic Development Platform
- Stacks for Simple Static Sites
- Show HN: Primate – Polymorphic Development Platform
- Should I learn Node js for backend, or Next js?
- We Switched from SvelteKit to Golang+Htmx
- primatejs/primate: Polymorphic development platform
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A note from our sponsor - WorkOS
workos.com | 25 Apr 2024
Index
What are some of the best open-source Backend projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | awesome-cheatsheets | 37,460 |
| 2 | parse-server | 20,613 |
| 3 | web-skills | 6,823 |
| 4 | Cockpit | 5,377 |
| 5 | hoodie | 4,394 |
| 6 | nodejs-integration-tests-best-practices | 3,200 |
| 7 | blaze | 2,165 |
| 8 | kuzzle | 1,371 |
| 9 | axios-module | 1,192 |
| 10 | learn-nodejs-hard-way | 1,166 |
| 11 | nextacular | 961 |
| 12 | Nullstack | 761 |
| 13 | everything-chatgpt | 551 |
| 14 | Stackoverflow-Clone-Frontend | 534 |
| 15 | mojo.js | 474 |
| 16 | i18next-http-backend | 415 |
| 17 | inspect | 376 |
| 18 | gindex-v4 | 257 |
| 19 | stack-underflow-mern-gql | 193 |
| 20 | reddish-mern | 157 |
| 21 | primate | 124 |
| 22 | Stackoverflow-Clone-Backend | 118 |
| 23 | restapify | 96 |
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