Top 7 JavaScript remake Projects

jspaint

79 7,103 9.5 JavaScript

🎨 Classic MS Paint, ＲＥＶＩＶＥＤ + ✨Extras

Project mention: Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-25

This is by the same person who made jspaint. https://github.com/1j01/jspaint Some of the other projects by the author are also very interesting https://github.com/1j01?tab=repositories&q=&type=&language=&...
There is this pipes screen saver for example https://1j01.github.io/pipes/

98

14 1,036 1.5 JavaScript

💿 Web-based Windows 98 desktop recreation █████▓█▓▓▒▓▒▒░▒░░░🗕︎🗗︎🗙︎

Project mention: Solitaire: Authentic remake of the Windows 95 original | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17

There is JS Solitaire as well which looks exactly like win 98 solitaire. https://github.com/1j01/98/tree/master/programs/js-solitaire

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.
LiveBot

1 714 3.7 JavaScript

An app that allows you to be inside a bot!
pipes

3 339 10.0 JavaScript

💿 Classic 3D Pipes screensaver remake (web-based) (by 1j01)

Project mention: Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-25

This is by the same person who made jspaint. https://github.com/1j01/jspaint Some of the other projects by the author are also very interesting https://github.com/1j01?tab=repositories&q=&type=&language=&...
There is this pipes screen saver for example https://1j01.github.io/pipes/

rsc-server

2 71 0.0 JavaScript

🌎 runescape classic private server mmorpg emulator
encounter

2 49 3.9 JavaScript

Remaking the classic C64 game in WebGL.

Project mention: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-03

I'm working at Meta to this day!
Check it out at https://github.com/air/encounter

janitorial-android

1 46 3.3 JavaScript

Detailed LEGO Junkbot remake and fancy level editor

Project mention: An HTML5 Remake of Lego Junkbot and Junkbot Undercover Games | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-11

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

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.

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).