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Enterprise-grade ITSM, for every businessFreshservice is an intuitive, AI-powered platform that helps IT, operations, and business teams deliver exceptional service without the usual complexity. Automate repetitive tasks, resolve issues faster, and provide seamless support across the organization. From managing incidents and assets to driving smarter decisions, Freshservice makes it easy to stay efficient and scale with confidence.
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Node-RED
Low-code programming for event-driven applications
Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click. Node-RED provides a browser-based flow editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette. Flows can be then deployed to the runtime in a single-click. JavaScript functions can be created within the editor using a rich text editor. A built-in library allows you to save useful functions, templates or flows for re-use. The light-weight runtime is built on Node.js, taking full advantage of its event-driven, non-blocking model. This makes it ideal to run at the edge of the network on low-cost hardware such as the Raspberry Pi as well as in the cloud. -
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Marked
A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed
A low-level markdown compiler for parsing markdown without caching or blocking for long periods of time. Light-weight while implementing all markdown features from the supported flavors & specifications. Available as a command-line interface (CLI) and running in client- or server-side JavaScript projects. The only completely secure system is the one that doesn't exist in the first place. Having said that, we take the security of Marked very seriously. To prevent ReDoS attacks you can run marked on a worker and terminate it when parsing takes longer than usual. Marked can be run in a worker thread on a node server, or a web worker in a browser. Only current and LTS Node.js versions are supported. End-of-life Node.js versions may become incompatible with Marked at any point in time. -
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Pencil
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free tool
Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms. The latest stable version of Pencil is 3.1.0 which contains stability fixes and many new features. More details can befound in the releaste notes. Pencil provides various built-in shapes collection for drawing different types of user interface ranging from desktop to mobile platforms. Starting from 2.0.2, Pencil is shipped with Android and iOS UI stencils pre-installed. This makes it even easier to start protyping apps with a simple installation. Starting from 2.0.2 Pencil has even more shape collections included by default. The list of built-in collections now includes general-purpose shapes, flowchart elements, desktop/web UI shapes, Android and iOS GUI shapes. -
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Brunch
Web applications made easy
Brunch lets you focus on what matters most, solving real problems instead of messing around with the glue. By being opinionated about your build pipeline, Brunch is able to provide a smooth and fast experience, and makes your config files take a drastic cut. It doesn't take much to get around with brunch. 'brunch new' to create a new project. 'brunch build' to build. 'brunch watch' to live-compile. Installation is one-line, once you have node.js. You will find that the typical config of a Brunch application is an order of magnitude simpler, compared to Webpack, Grunt, or Gulp. Besides configs, brunch is also simpler in terms of commands. Grunt / Gulp commands replicate all plugins it loads. Brunch always has three commands: new, build and watch. Build / watch commands may receive optional production flag which will tell Brunch to optimize assets, javascripts and stylesheets. -
AI-generated apps that pass security reviewRetool lets you generate dashboards, admin panels, and workflows directly on your data. Type something like “Build me a revenue dashboard on my Stripe data” and get a working app with security, permissions, and compliance built in from day one. Whether on our cloud or self-hosted, create the internal software your team needs without compromising enterprise standards or control.
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Trilium Notes
Build your personal knowledge base
Trilium is provided as either desktop application (Linux and Windows) or web application hosted on your server (Linux). Mac OS desktop build is available, but it is unsupported. Synchronization with self-hosted sync server, strong note encryption with per-note granularity, relation maps and link maps for visualizing notes and their relations, and scripting, see Advanced showcases. Scales well in both usability and performance upwards of 100 000 notes, touch optimized mobile frontend for smartphones and tablets, night theme, evernote and Markdown import & export, as well as web clipper for easy saving of web content. If you want to use Trilium on the desktop, download binary release for your platform from latest release, unzip the package and run trilium executable. Install the application on both a server, for web access and data synchronization, and desktop instance(s). This allows all the data to be stored on the server. -
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Create React App
Set up a modern web app by running one command
Create React App lets you create React apps quickly and easily-- no learning of build tools or build configurations necessary. All you need is one command, and you can get started in seconds. All tools are preconfigured and hidden, and with instant reloads you can focus on code, not build tools. With Create React App your apps need only one build dependency, so everything works together seamlessly, and when it’s time to deploy your bundles are automatically optimized. With Create React App it’s easy to start and easy to “eject”, if ever you want an advanced configuration and edit config files directly. It’s also very easy to maintain, as you only need a single command to upgrade to new versions. -
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V Programming Language
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing software
Simple language for building maintainable programs. You can learn the entire language by going through the documentation over a weekend, and in most cases, there's only one way to do something. This results in simple, readable, and maintainable code. Despite being simple, V gives a lot of power to the developer and can be used in pretty much every field, including systems programming, webdev, gamedev, GUI, mobile, science, embedded, tooling, etc. V avoids doing unnecessary allocations in the first place by using value types, and string buffers, promoting a simple abstraction-free code style. Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's auto-free engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. A remaining small percentage of objects is freed via GC. The developer doesn't need to change anything in their code. "It just works", like in Python, Go, or Java, except there's no heavy GC tracing everything or expensive RC for each object. -
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Browsersync
Keep multiple browsers & devices in sync when building websites
With each web page, device and browser, testing time grows exponentially. From live reloads to URL pushing, form replication to click mirroring, Browsersync cuts out repetitive manual tasks. It’s like an extra pair of hands. Customise an array of sync settings from the UI or command line to create a personalised test environment. Need more control? Browsersync is easily integrated with your web platform, build tools, and other Node.js projects. Built on Node.JS_ENTRY to support Windows, MacOS and Linux. Setup in less than 5 minutes. Browsersync is an open source project available to use under the Apache 2.0 License. Easily integrated with task runners like Grunt and Gulp, or included in other Node projects. Test your website against a slower connection. Even when devices are connected to wifi. Your scroll, click, refresh and form actions are mirrored between browsers while you test. -
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Quasar Framework
Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time
Effortlessly build high-performance & high-quality Vue.js 3 user interfaces in record time. Combine the power of Quasar UI with Quasar CLI. One source code for all platforms simultaneously with all the latest and greatest best practices out of the box. Focus only on your app's features and forget about the boilerplate around it. Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time: responsive Single Page Apps, SSR Apps, PWAs, Browser extensions, Hybrid Mobile Apps and Electron Apps. If you want, all using the same codebase! You get a state-of-the-art UI (that follows Material Guidelines) for your websites and apps out of the box. Best support for desktop and mobile browsers (including iOS Safari!) out of the box. Best-in-class support for each build mode (SPA, SSR, PWA, Mobile app, Desktop app & Browser Extension) and the best developer experience through a tight integration with our own CLI. -
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Summernote
Super simple WYSIWYG editor
Simply download and attach your js, css with bootstrap. Customize by Initializing various options and modules. Summernote is licensed under MIT and maintained by the community. Integrate it with any back-end. 3rd parties available in django, rails, angular. Bootstrap uses certain HTML elements and CSS properties which require HTML5 doctype. Summernote uses the Open Source libraries jQuery and Bootstrap, if you are using the Boostrap 3 or 4 versions of Summernote, or just jQuery if you use the Lite version of Summernote. Summernote allows you to customize the toolbar. You can compose a toolbar with pre-shipped buttons. Air-mode give an interface without the Toolbar. To reveal popover Toolbar, select a text where you want to modify. Simply turn on airMode and just focus on text. Styles change according to Bootstraps Theme. The editor uses the Bootswatch Themes based on Bootstrap 3, you can also do the same with Bootstrap 4. -
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PWA
(WIP) Universal PWA Builder
PWA is a “universal, framework-agnostic PWA builder” developed by Luke Edwards (lukeed) that aims to let developers scaffold progressive web apps with minimal friction across different view frameworks or libraries. Unlike many CLI tools that target a specific framework (React, Vue, Svelte), this project intentionally tries to remain agnostic, supporting presets for Preact, React, Vue, Svelte and even vanilla JS, while offering all the PWA boilerplate you need (service workers, manifest, offline support) right out of the box. The project is designed for speed of setup: you run pwa init, choose your preset, then pwa build or pwa watch and you get a production-ready bundle with PWA features baked in. The README emphasizes that modern bundlers (Webpack, Rollup) and ecosystem maturity finally allow a universal CLI of this kind, whereas earlier attempts weren’t practical. -
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Relay
JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications
Relay is data-fetching turned declarative. Components declare their data dependencies, without worrying about how to fetch them. Relay guarantees that the data each component needs is fetched and available. This keeps components decoupled and promotes reuse. With Relay, components and their data dependencies can be quickly modified without modifying other parts of the system. That means you won't accidentally break other components as you refactor or make changes to your app. Relay's compiler aggregates and optimizes the data requirements for your entire app, so that they can be efficiently fetched in a single GraphQL request. Relay handles the heavy lifting to ensure the data declared by your components is fetched in the most efficient way. For example, by deduplicating identical fields, and precomputing information used at runtime, among other optimizations. Relay also supports executing GraphQL Mutations, optionally with optimistic updates, and updates to local data. -
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Workbox
JavaScript libraries for Progressive Web Apps
Workbox is a set of libraries that can power a production-ready service worker for your Progressive Web App. Stop waiting on the network! You can improve your web app's performance by caching and serving your files, powered by a service worker. Even on an unreliable connection, your web app can still work using the right runtime caching strategies. Looking to build a progressive web app? Workbox makes it easy to create an offline first experience. Workbox is a library that bakes in a set of best practices and removes the boilerplate every developer writes when working with service workers. Precaching, runtime caching, strategies, request routing, background sync, and helpful debugging. Wish you could rely on Google Fonts being available offline after the user has visited your site? Add a quick rule to serve them from the cache. Make your JS and CSS fast by returning the assets from the cache, while making sure they are updated in the background for the next use. -
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vConsole
A lightweight, extendable front-end developer tool for mobile web page
vConsole is a lightweight, extendable front-end developer tool for mobile web page. A plugin allows you to add a new tab, add one or more tool button(s). You can customize the functions of the tab and buttons. After imported, vConsole should be inited manually. When vConsole is not loaded, logs will be printed to native console. After importing vConsole, logs will be printed to both front-end console and native console. Some useful vConsole properties and methods are available for plugin development. You can destroy an vConsole instance object and remove vConsole panel from document. You can also add a new plugin to vConsole. Duplicate plugin will be ignored. Create an vConsole plugin object, bind plugin events to this object, and add this object to vConsole. While installing and running a plugin, vConsole will trigger some events to allow a plugin customizing it's functions. -
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Compiere ERP+CRM is the leading open source ERP solution for Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing and Service industries. Compiere automates accounting, supply chain, inventory and sales orders. Compiere ERP is distributed under GPL V2 by Compiere, Inc.
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Onsen UI
Mobile app development framework and SDK
The most beautiful and efficient way to develop HTML5 hybrid and mobile web apps. Experience streamlined development with zero-time setup, using the technologies you already know and love, Javascript, HTML and CSS. A rich variety of UI components specially designed for mobile apps. Onsen UI provides tabs, side menu, stack navigation and tons of other components such as lists and forms. They all have iOS and Android Material design support, with automatic styling that will change the appearance of the app based on the platform. With Onsen UI you can truly support both Android and iOS with the same source code. Worried that PhoneGap / Cordova apps are slow? Fear not! All animations in Onsen UI have been tuned and optimized to perform well on a wide range of devices. We take great care to ensure that apps made using Onsen UI feel smooth even on lower end devices. Onsen UI is easy to learn while being a powerful tool to create complex mobile apps. -
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Ratchet
Build mobile apps with simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components
Ratchet is designed to respond to touch events from a mobile device. Enable touch event emulation in Chrome (found in the overrides tab in the web inspector preferences). Use a JavaScript library like fingerblast.js to emulate touch events (ideally only loaded from desktop devices). Ratchet is downloadable in two forms, within which you'll find directories and files, logically grouping common resources and providing both compiled and minified variations. The most basic form of Ratchet is the grouping of the precompiled files for quick drop-in usage in nearly any web project. We provide compiled CSS and JS (ratchet.*), as well as compiled and minified CSS and JS (ratchet.min.*). The Ratchicon fonts are included, as are the Android and iOS platform themes. The Ratchet source code download includes the precompiled CSS, JavaScript, and font assets. Provides design patterns that serve as basic building blocks. -
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Twin
Twin blends the magic of Tailwind with the flexibility of css-in-js
Twin blends the magic of Tailwind with the flexibility of CSS-in-js (emotion, styled-components, stitches, and goober) at build time. When babel runs over your javascript or typescript files at compile time, twin grabs your classes and converts them into CSS objects. These CSS objects are then passed into your chosen CSS-in-js library without the need for an extra client-side bundle. Twin collapses imports from common styling libraries into a single import. Adds no size to your build. Twin converts the classes you’ve used into CSS objects using Babel and then compiles away, leaving no runtime code. Twin chimes in with class and variant values from your Tailwind config. Works with the official tailwind vscode plugin. Avoid having to look up your classes with auto-completion straight from your Tailwind config. Apply variants to multiple classes at once with variant groups. -
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Ember-Electron
Build, test, compile and package desktop apps with Ember and Electron
The addon for creating ambitious cross platform desktop apps. Extend any Ember.js application with the access and options of a full-sized desktop application in minutes. Ember-Electron is powered by electron-forge and provides all the tooling necessary to build, test and ship your application. After installing the addon, you will find a new folder ember-electron inside your Ember project root. All code required to run an Electron project will be there. Run your project in development mode. This works pretty much like ember serve except it runs in Electron. We install the Ember Inspector and Devtron for you, so just use the Developer Tools as you would in your browser. Please note that we do not restart Electron yet when you change code there. -
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EpicReact.Dev
Build a ReactJS App workshop
EpicReact.Dev is the codebase used in the “Build an Epic React App” workshop, where participants build a complete React application from scratch. The project demonstrates how to structure a modern React app, including data modeling, authentication, routing, testing, and interaction with a backend. It uses a realistic “bookshelf” domain where users can manage lists of books, track reading status, and record notes, which provides a concrete context for learning. The repository includes setup scripts and system requirements checks for Git, Node, and npm, plus Docker and Codespaces options for people who struggle with local environments. A guided workflow, driven by a node go script and INSTRUCTIONS.md, lets learners move between exercises and extra credit steps while the repository updates the working files for each stage. Extensive tests, using Jest in watch mode, help students verify their solutions and learn how to work with test-driven feedback. -
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Flux
Application architecture for building user interfaces
Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code. Flux applications have three major parts: the dispatcher, the stores, and the views (React components). These should not be confused with Model-View-Controller. Controllers do exist in a Flux application, but they are controller-views — views often found at the top of the hierarchy that retrieve data from the stores and pass this data down to their children. Additionally, action creators — dispatcher helper methods — are used to support a semantic API that describes all changes that are possible in the application. It can be useful to think of them as a fourth part of the Flux update cycle. -
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Hyperapp
Tiny framework for building hypertext applications
The tiny framework for building hypertext applications. Do more with less—We have minimized the concepts you need to learn to get stuff done. Views, actions, effects, and subscriptions are all pretty easy to get to grips with and work together seamlessly. Write what, not how—With a declarative API that's easy to read and fun to write, Hyperapp is the best way to build purely functional, feature-rich, browser-based apps in JavaScript. Smaller than a favicon—1 kB, give or take. Hyperapp is an ultra-lightweight Virtual DOM, highly-optimized diff algorithm, and state management library obsessed with minimalism. Official packages provide access to The Web Platform, and ensure that the APIs are exposed in a way that makes sense for Hyperapp, and the underlying code is stable. We already cover a decent amount of features, but you can always create your own effects and subscriptions if something is not available yet. -
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JavaScript Stack from Scratch
Tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack
This is a straight-to-the-point guide to assembling a JavaScript stack. It requires some general programming knowledge, and JavaScript basics. It focuses on wiring tools together and giving you the simplest possible example for each tool. You can see this tutorial as a way to write your own boilerplate from scratch. Since the goal of this tutorial is to assemble various tools, I do not go into details about how these tools work individually. Refer to their documentation or find other tutorials if you want to acquire deeper knowledge in them. You don't need to use this entire stack if you build a simple web page with a few JS interactions of course (a combination of Browserify/Webpack + Babel + jQuery is enough to be able to write ES6 code in different files), but if you want to build a web app that scales, and need help setting things up, this tutorial will work great for you. -
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Plupload
JavaScript API for building file uploaders
At its core Plupload is visually flat and you can customize it however you like. We are using HTML5 APIs. Always. Plupload is based on multi-runtime pollyfills for XMLHttpRequest L2, File and Image APIs. So when there's no HTML5 available in the browser, we emulate it ourselves. Files not only can be picked from browse dialog, but also can be dropped directly from the desktop. In some browsers, mostly in those based on WebKit, it is possible to drag and drop whole folders. Since we emulate as much of HTML5 as possible, we are able (among other things) to provide access to raw file data, even in such environments that do not normally support it. One of the biggest benefits of this is that we can display the thumbnails instantly, right as you select the images in the dialog or drag&drop them from the desktop. We slice the files in chunks and send them out one by one. You can then safely collect them on the server and combine into original file. -
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React Redux Starter Kit
Get started with React, Redux, and React-Router
This starter kit is designed to get you up and running with a bunch of awesome front-end technologies. The primary goal of this project is to provide a stable foundation upon which to build modern web appliications. Its purpose is not to dictate your project structure or to demonstrate a complete real-world application, but to provide a set of tools intended to make front-end development robust, easy, and, most importantly, fun. The project structure presented in this boilerplate is fractal, where functionality is grouped primarily by feature rather than file type. This structure is only meant to serve as a guide, it is by no means prescriptive. That said, it aims to represent generally accepted guidelines and patterns for building scalable applications. Hot reloading is enabled by default when the application is running in development mode (yarn start). This feature is implemented with webpack's Hot Module Replacement capabilities.
