The last project highlighted in 2019 is Sarus: a library to handle WebSocket connections. Its weight is only 1.5 kB but it can make applications more resilient by reconnecting automatically to the server if the connection is lost.
A short update about Best of JavaScript: we added a link called “Tags” to the top navigation menu. Go to https://bestofjs.org/tags to check at a glance all the tags we use to categorize the projects. Reach us on GitHub to give us feedback!
Next time, we will check the trendiest projects of the year. The famous JavaScript Rising Stars will be back, stay tuned!
Growing Fast This Week
By % of GitHub stars added (relative growth) this week
1 |  | Sarus A WebSocket JavaScript library | Homepage | +88.1% |
2 |  | Scully The Static Site Generator for Angular apps | GitHub | +30.7% |
3 |  | Alpine.js A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup | GitHub | +24.4% |
4 |  | Outline The fastest wiki and knowledge base for growing teams | Homepage | +11.5% |
5 |  | Tesseract.js Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages | Homepage | +6.5% |
6 |  | Emoji Mart One component to pick them all | Homepage | +3.1% |
7 |  | React Hook Form React hooks for forms validation without the hassle. | Homepage | +3.0% |
8 |  | react-mosaic A React tiling window manager | Homepage | +2.5% |
9 |  | Code Surfer Rad code slides </> | Homepage | +2.1% |
10 |  | discord.js A powerful JavaScript library for interacting with the Discord API | Homepage | +2.0% |
Trending This Week
By number of GitHub stars added this week
1 | | Tesseract.js Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages | Homepage | +1.2 k★ |
2 | | Outline The fastest wiki and knowledge base for growing teams. | Homepage | +732 ★ |
3 |  | Svelte Cybernetically enhanced web apps | Homepage | +434 ★ |
4 |  | Vue.js A progressive, incrementally-adoptable framework for building UI on the web | Homepage | +382 ★ |
5 |  | VS Code Visual Studio Code | Homepage | +366 ★ |
6 |  | Vue Element Admin A magical vue admin | GitHub | +355 ★ |
7 |  | JS Algorithms & Data Structures Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript | GitHub | +326 ★ |
8 |  | React A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building UI | Homepage | +308 ★ |
9 |  | You Don't Know JS A book series on JavaScript | GitHub | +239 ★ |
10 |  | Clean Code Clean Code concepts adapted for JavaScript | GitHub | +230 ★ |
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