Top 7 JavaScript Small Projects

cash

19 6,411 4.5 JavaScript

An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers. (by fabiospampinato)

Project mention: pure javascript vs jquery vs react for a complex, downloadable text based browser game with state management? | /r/webdev | 2023-05-14

Maybe a small JQuery clone like a Cash - https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash or SurfJS https://surf.monster/ (Surf has a delay/queue, reactive templates) might help for writing less code and is still JavaScript
oby

3 227 7.9 JavaScript

A rich Observable/Signal implementation, the brilliant primitive you need to build a powerful reactive system.
SurveyJS

surveyjs.io
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CalDOM

3 186 2.7 JavaScript

An agnostic, reactive & minimalist (3kb) JavaScript UI library with direct access to native DOM.
Nanny-State

2 129 6.8 JavaScript

small, simple & speedy state management
isomorphic-webcrypto

5 115 0.0 JavaScript

:game_die: webcrypto library for Node, React Native and IE11+
beppe

1 7 2.7 JavaScript

tiny alternative to puppeteer
Tilemapp5js

1 0 3.5 JavaScript

A tilemap library for p5 js

Project mention: Blazingly fast tilemaps in p5.js | /r/p5js | 2023-09-14

When using tilemaps in p5.js, especially in canvas mode, you might just go with the approach this library uses: https://github.com/RandomGamingDev/Tilemapp5js and just draw every tile every frame which is slow. The next best thing is to simply render it to another canvas and then render any changes over it when needed, but this takes up a bunch of vram, requires multiple canvases, as well as still being best used with chunks for performance reasons, and using the CPU for all tile calculations.
InfluxDB

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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). The latest post mention was on 2023-09-14.