Issue #71

Number one this week, Robot is a library to create finite state machines in a functional way.

The documentation explains clearly how state machines can help build more resilient applications, showing a very concrete example: an inline field to edit the title of a page.

Maintaining the state of your application by handling a collection of attributes and writing imperative code to toggle the attributes is error-prone because it’s hard to track all the possible combinations.

With Robot, you start by defining all the states of your application (given them a name) and the events that can trigger a transition from one state to another one.

Robot shines with a compact and elegant API and the way it handles asynchronous operations, using the invoke keyword to trigger a transition when a Promise resolves.

Integrations as “hooks” are available for popular frameworks such as React or Preact.

Growing Fast This Week

By % of GitHub stars added (relative growth) this week
1
Robot
Robot
A functional, immutable Finite State Machine library
Homepage
+47.8%
2
Geometric.js
Geometric.js
A JavaScript library for doing geometry.
GitHub
+11.3%
3
Analytics
Analytics
Lightweight analytics library for tracking events, page views...
Homepage
+10.2%
4
NodeGUI
NodeGUI
A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Java...
Homepage
+7.6%
5
node-rate-limiter-flexible
node-rate-limiter-flexible
Node.js rate limit requests by key and protection from DDoS and Brute-Force...
GitHub
+7.3%
6
Goober
Goober
A less than 1KB css-in-js alternative with a familiar API
GitHub
+6.8%
7
oidc-provider
oidc-provider
OpenID Certified™ OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server implementation for Node.js
GitHub
+6.2%
8
webhint
webhint
A hinting engine for the web
Homepage
+6.0%
9
Moveable
Moveable
Draggable! Resizable! Scalable! Rotatable!
Homepage
+5.8%
10
React Hook Form
React Hook Form
React hooks for form validation without the hassle.
Homepage
+5.8%

Trending This Week

By number of GitHub stars added this week
1
You Don't Know JS
You Don't Know JS
A book series on JavaScript
GitHub
+402
2
Vue.js
Vue.js
A progressive, incrementally-adoptable framework for building UI on the web
Homepage
+401
3
React
React
A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user...
Homepage
+377
4
Node.js Best Practices
Node.js Best Practices
The largest Node.js best practices list (September 2019)
GitHub
+376
5
Awesome
Awesome
Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics
GitHub
+375
6
Svelte
Svelte
Cybernetically enhanced web apps
Homepage
+313
7
Eclipse Theia
Eclipse Theia
A cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Homepage
+304
8
VS Code
VS Code
Visual Studio Code
Homepage
+296
9
Angular
Angular
One framework. Mobile & desktop.
Homepage
+287
10
Gatsby
Gatsby
Build blazing fast, modern apps and websites with React
Homepage
+279

Any question or feedback? Reach us on GitHub.

Best of JavaScript is a project created by Michael Rambeau, made in Osaka, Japan.