Hey there, I’m back! I hope you don’t mind me, but I wanted to share with you some interesting open-source projects I’ve been hearing about lately.
Some of them are already well known by many, and some of them are quite invisible in our community, so I wanted to highlight them. Hopefully you’ll find this useful or at least mildly interesting.
A little bit of background
You see, I recently took a left turn in my professional career and, literally, left (see what I did there?) the management table to become a Dev Advocate for an up and coming startup called OpenReplay. I definitely need to write about that, because it was a huge change, but the reason why I mention it now, is that this has allowed me to connect a lot more with the development community.
As part of my new role, I’m the host of a new podcast about JavaScript, called “20 Min JS” which aims to cover some interesting topics for the JS community in under 20 mins on every episode. And through this podcast I’ve gotten to interview some very interesting developers, such as Chris Bongers from DailyDevTips, Mark Volkmann author of “Svelte and Sapper in Action” and others.
During these discussions I’ve come to learn about some of the projects they’re keeping an eye out for or even actively using and contributing to, so I wanted to share those with you.
Mind you, maybe you’re already aware of them, but in case you’re not, here is the list.
Some cool projects for you to keep an eye out
Don’t worry, this is not going to be an endless list. These are the top 3 projects everyone’s talking about and you should probably check out:
Remix Run. If you’re into front-end development and you haven’t yet tried Remix you’re missing out. I mean honestly, this is not a new project, but it’s gained popularity recently and it’s making the rounds everywhere. I tried it recently and documented my findings in this article, check it out and decide for yourself.
Astro. Astro is a static site generator, it was recommended by Chris Bongers as one of his top open-source projects to keep an eye out, and then it was mentioned by other guests as well. It’s definitely not for you if you’re not into static sites, but if you’re looking for a tool to build your next personal site or rebuild your blog (like developers are known to do), you might want to check it out.
SvelteJS. Yet another not-so-new project that it’s somehow not as popular as it should be. This little guy in case you don’t know about it, is trying to completely change the way we work with JavaScript and TypeScript to build web applications. You can think about it as the equivalent of React or Vue, but overly simplified and yet potentially more powerful than any of them. We recently published an episode on Svelte on the podcast, so you might want to check it out in case you’re curious.
And that’s it, if you enjoyed the list make sure you leave a like or comment on this post so I know to send another one in while, once I have further recommendations.
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