JavaScript Proposal Projects

core-js

141 23,853 9.8 JavaScript

Standard Library

Project mention: Emacs' helm is maintained by one maintaner for 11 years long | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-22

This is surprisingly common. The other example off the top of my head, a single maintainer of a very popular project who had to temporarily abandon it due to lack of funds, is Denis Pushkarev (zloirock) and core.js (https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...).
The majority of OSS projects have most of their contributions by one person (the project leader), and the vast majority of OSS contributors don't do it for their job. It seems nearly every single popular OSS project is like this (one unpaid, maybe sponsored, volunteer doing most of the work); it's not even worth listing projects and names, because you can just pick a couple projects you know and I bet at least one will be an example. Fortunately, most of these people seem to be well-off (probably in part due to the quality of programming jobs), but every once in a while there's someone who's not so fortunate. It should be more common to sponsor maintainers, especially if they are asking for donations provided they can prove that they really need the money (the world we live in, some people who have plenty fake issues to solicit donations, then others who genuinely need and deserve the money are scolded and left unfunded because of them).

XRPL-Standards

33 179 7.7 JavaScript

XLS: XRP(L) community defined Suggestions, Proposals, RFCs / Standards / Drafts & discussions, to be added to the core protocol, used for platform & apps devemopment, etc.

Project mention: XRP Ledger AMM Bug Fix Now Integrated: A Detailed Analysis | dev.to | 2024-04-12

AMMs provide a new way to convert between assets that complements the DEX’s order books. Unlike offers, which have fixed exchange rates, the AMM exchange rate varies continuously as liquidity is consumed from the AMM pool according to a constant product formula (see XLS-30 for details). The payment engine needs a way to compare the discrete liquidity from an offer with the continuous liquidity from an AMM to provide the most cost-efficient path for payments.

SurveyJS

surveyjs.io sponsored

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.

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).