The Frontend Hitchhiker's Guide: Web APIs

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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    Web Applications Working Group

  • These technologies are developed under various organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium and anyone could make a contribution for any specification.

    The Comlink library can make working with web workers easier by making your worker objects available to your main JavaScript code.

  • 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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  • things-you-can-do-in-a-web-worker

    Web Workers are cool! Here is a place to document all of the cool things you can do with them!

  • Things You Can Do With A Web Worker

  • generic-sensor-demos

  • Generic Sensor API

  • Socket.io

    Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)

  • If you have ever used a web chat application, odds are this API is used under the hood. Web Sockets lets you set up a live connection between a client and a server so bi-directional messages can be exchanged in real time. Socket IO is the go to library to get up and running with this technology.

  • excalidraw

    Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

  • Excalidraw

  • workbox

    📦 Workbox: JavaScript libraries for Progressive Web Apps

  • and much more. Workbox is probably the best library for building out your service worker to suit what ever advanced caching strategy you may need.

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    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.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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