SSGs through the ages: The 'SPAs are awesome' era

• Meteor JS

  61 44,038 9.8 JavaScript

  Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform

  

Guillermo and his company Ziet (now Vercel) had “been pursuing a vision of universal JavaScript applications.” In other words: a way to develop websites and web applications using JavaScript to run in both the frontend and backend. This idea is also known as isomorphic JavaScript and was first popularized by the Meteor framework in 2011. Next.js is Vercel’s take on this vision.

• Gatsby

  356 55,000 9.4 JavaScript

  The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.

  

Gatsby.js

• 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.

  

• action-doctl

  142 452 6.4 JavaScript

  GitHub Actions for DigitalOcean - doctl

  

Gatsby.js made a monumental change in how we think about SSGs and added a great deal of legitimacy to the space. It currently powers the websites for well-known brands such as Figma, Digital Ocean, Impossible, and National Geographic.

• vercel

  479 12,144 9.8 TypeScript

  Develop. Preview. Ship.

  

Guillermo and his company Ziet (now Vercel) had “been pursuing a vision of universal JavaScript applications.” In other words: a way to develop websites and web applications using JavaScript to run in both the frontend and backend. This idea is also known as isomorphic JavaScript and was first popularized by the Meteor framework in 2011. Next.js is Vercel’s take on this vision.

• Nuxt.js

  207 42,699 8.0 TypeScript

  Discontinued Nuxt is an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web apps and websites with Vue 3. [Moved to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt]

  

Nuxt.js

• Next.js

  2,041 120,313 10.0 JavaScript

  The React Framework

  

Next.js

• Ember.js

  36 22,441 9.4 JavaScript

  Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications

  

In the early 2010s — while Jekyll was being reinvented — web browsers were becoming ever more capable, spurring a proliferation of companies developing single-page applications. However, building single-page web applications required a level of shared data consistency that the most popular JavaScript framework at the time, JQuery, was not equipped to handle. We saw a number of frameworks tackle this problem, including Backbone, Ember, Knockout, and most popular, AngularJs. These frameworks provided a structure for creating large applications.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• Backbone.js

  22 28,079 7.8 JavaScript

  Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events

In the early 2010s — while Jekyll was being reinvented — web browsers were becoming ever more capable, spurring a proliferation of companies developing single-page applications. However, building single-page web applications required a level of shared data consistency that the most popular JavaScript framework at the time, JQuery, was not equipped to handle. We saw a number of frameworks tackle this problem, including Backbone, Ember, Knockout, and most popular, AngularJs. These frameworks provided a structure for creating large applications.

• AngularJS

  46 59,496 4.2 JavaScript

  Discontinued AngularJS - HTML enhanced for web apps!

  

In the early 2010s — while Jekyll was being reinvented — web browsers were becoming ever more capable, spurring a proliferation of companies developing single-page applications. However, building single-page web applications required a level of shared data consistency that the most popular JavaScript framework at the time, JQuery, was not equipped to handle. We saw a number of frameworks tackle this problem, including Backbone, Ember, Knockout, and most popular, AngularJs. These frameworks provided a structure for creating large applications.

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