Top 23 Small Open-Source Projects

• cash

  19 6,423 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

• elk

  13 1,587 2.2 C

  A low footprint JavaScript engine for embedded systems (by cesanta)

  

Project mention: A list of JavaScript engines, runtimes, interpreters | /r/learnjavascript | 2023-12-10

elk

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  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.

  

• minimp3

  3 1,493 0.0 C

  Minimalistic MP3 decoder single header library

• lazy_importer

  1 1,492 4.2 C++

  library for importing functions from dlls in a hidden, reverse engineer unfriendly way

• voby

  12 856 8.0 TypeScript

  A high-performance framework with fine-grained observable-based reactivity for building rich applications.

  

• WonderCMS

  3 638 4.9 PHP

  Fast and small flat file CMS (5 files). Built with PHP, JSON database.

  

• jimtcl

  2 417 7.5 C

  Official repository of Jim Tcl, an open-source, small footprint implementation of Tcl

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• little-file-explorer

  3 289 8.2 Java

  Android 1.0+ mini file explorer and manager

  

Project mention: Little File Explorer – ~40KB File Manager for Android 1.0 and Above | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-27

• oby

  3 228 8.1 JavaScript

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

  

• Wolff

  0 217 0.0 PHP

  🐺 Lightweight and easy to use framework for building web apps. (by Usbac)

• CalDOM

  3 188 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

  5 114 0.0 JavaScript

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

• wotpp

  2 73 0.0 C++

  A small macro language for producing and manipulating strings.

  

• StringDB

  0 71 0.0 C#

  StringDB is a modular, key/value pair archival DB designed to consume *tiny* amounts of ram & produce *tiny* databases.

• micro-MVC

  2 56 5.5 PHP

  An agile, small, productive and robust MVC framework for PHP with high-quality JS extensions and integrated AJAX support.

• tiny-music-player

  4 56 5.0 Java

  Android 1.0+ <20KB minimal notification based audio player

  

• riscv-vscript

  1 51 10.0 Squirrel

  A port of mini-rv32ima to VScript (Squirrel 3)

• matchbook-ts

  0 32 0.0 TypeScript

  pattern matching in javascript & typescript made easy

  

• EzCopenheimer

  1 19 4.7 Python

  A basic and easier to use version of the Copenheimer bot created by the 5th Column from 2B2T that you can easily and simply execute using python. Especially since you don't have to deal with anything complex, just a simple python file to use.

Project mention: orsondmc, the creator of Copenheimer posted an issue on my Copenheimer clone :D | /r/2b2t | 2023-05-13

• y2k

  1 13 2.8 Go

  A 0-byte programming language encoded in pre-2000 timestamps

• FastHamming

  1 12 2.7 C

  Fast implementation for truncateable extended (127,120) Hamming codes

• imd

  1 9 0.0 C

  Rebuild of my md program. It's better looking, working, and has better features. The Improved terminal MarkDown file reader / viewer / styler / tui.

• SaaSHub

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