The biggest news of the week is the official announcement of Rome’s beta release.
Rome is a tool created by Sebastian McKenzie (the creator of Babel) to handle common front-end development tasks.
The current tooling eco-system is very fragmented, each task has its own tools, for example:
- Formatting with Prettier
- Linting with ESLint
- Building with Webpack, Parcel or Rollup
- Testing with Jest, Mocha or Ava…
However Rome aims to provide a unified set of tools to handle JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML or markdown files, leading to a much simpler developer experience.
Rome may be the success-story of 2020, this is why we have included it in a short timeline we released this week: https://bestofjs.org/timeline.
Growing Fast This Week
By % of GitHub stars added (relative growth) this week
1 |  | Bumbag Build accessible & themeable React applications with your Bumbag | Homepage | +42.8% |
2 |  | Heroicons A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development. | Homepage | +32.8% |
3 |  | Rome The Rome Frontend Toolchain. A linter, compiler, bundler, and more... | Homepage | +28.8% |
4 |  | Vest Validation Testing | Homepage | +12.1% |
5 |  | Tinykeys A tiny (~400 B) & modern library for keybindings. | Homepage | +11.3% |
6 |  | Zustand Bear necessities for state management in React | Homepage | +6.8% |
7 |  | React Spectrum A collection of libraries and tools that help you build adaptive, accessible... | Homepage | +6.0% |
8 |  | Mock Service Worker Seamless REST/GraphQL API mocking library for browser and Node. | Homepage | +6.0% |
9 |  | Moveable Draggable! Resizable! Scalable! Rotatable! | Homepage | +4.0% |
10 |  | Chakra UI ️ Simple, Modular & Accessible UI Components for your React Applications | Homepage | +3.8% |
Trending This Week
By number of GitHub stars added this week
1 | | Rome The Rome Frontend Toolchain. A linter, compiler, bundler, and more... | Homepage | +2.7 k★ |
2 | | Heroicons A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development. | Homepage | +2.0 k★ |
3 |  | JS Algorithms & Data Structures Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript | GitHub | +1.6 k★ |
4 |  | Node.js Best Practices The Node.js best practices list (August 2020) | GitHub | +881 ★ |
5 |  | Storybook The UI component explorer. Develop, document, & test for React, Vue, Angular... | Homepage | +626 ★ |
6 |  | Angular One framework. Mobile & desktop. | Homepage | +598 ★ |
7 |  | React A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building UI | Homepage | +543 ★ |
8 |  | Vue.js A progressive, incrementally-adoptable framework for building UI on the web | Homepage | +504 ★ |
9 |  | You Don't Know JS A book series on JavaScript | GitHub | +455 ★ |
10 |  | VS Code Visual Studio Code | Homepage | +386 ★ |
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