7 projects starred by top JavaScript developers that you should check out
Tags: javascript, opensource, webdev, npm
Published: 2020-03-01 21:15:50


A list of GitHub projects that were starred by multiple top JavaScript developers in the past 6 months. Read more about
 the methodolgy at the end of the post.


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### react-adaptive-hooks<br/>
**Description:** Deliver experiences best suited to a user's device and network constraints <br/>
**Repo URL:** [https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/react-adaptive-hooks](https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/react-adaptive-hooks)<br/>
**Repo Owner:** [GoogleChromeLabs](https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs)<br/>
**GitHub Stars:** 3,920<br/>
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### rome<br/>
**Description:** An experimental JavaScript toolchain <br/>
**Repo URL:** [https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome](https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome)<br/>
**Repo Owner:** [facebookexperimental](https://github.com/facebookexperimental)<br/>
**GitHub Stars:** 3,246<br/>
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### 1on1-questions<br/>
**Description:** Mega list of 1 on 1 meeting questions compiled from a variety to sources <br/>
**Repo URL:** [https://github.com/VGraupera/1on1-questions](https://github.com/VGraupera/1on1-questions)<br/>
**Repo Owner:** [VGraupera](https://github.com/VGraupera)<br/>
**GitHub Stars:** 6,518<br/>
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### vanillawebprojects<br/>
**Description:** Mini projects built with HTML5, CSS & JavaScript. No frameworks or libraries <br/>
**Repo URL:** [https://github.com/bradtraversy/vanillawebprojects](https://github.com/bradtraversy/vanillawebprojects)<br/>
**Repo Owner:** [bradtraversy](https://github.com/bradtraversy)<br/>
**GitHub Stars:** 3,820<br/>
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### playwright<br/>
**Description:** Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API <br/>
**Repo URL:** [https://github.com/microsoft/playwright](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright)<br/>
**Repo Owner:** [microsoft](https://github.com/microsoft)<br/>
**GitHub Stars:** 9,935<br/>
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### react-helmet<br/>
**Description:** A document head manager for React <br/>
**Repo URL:** [https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet](https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet)<br/>
**Repo Owner:** [nfl](https://github.com/nfl)<br/>
**GitHub Stars:** 12,604<br/>
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### linaria<br/>
**Description:** Zero-runtime CSS in JS library <br/>
**Repo URL:** [https://github.com/callstack/linaria](https://github.com/callstack/linaria)<br/>
**Repo Owner:** [callstack](https://github.com/callstack)<br/>
**GitHub Stars:** 4,940<br/>
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### How the list was built

The projects below were starred by multiple experienced, influential developers, which I compiled from Googling
 "JavaScript developers to follow" and looking at who I currently follow on Twitter. Their GitHub usernames are _addyosmani, paulirish, thefoxis, umaar, elijahmanor, jeresig, dshaw, kentcdodds, johnpapa, darkwing, sachag, wesbos, getify, markdalgleish, chriscoyier, mdo, ry, yyx990803, Rich-Harris, sdras, emmabostian, markerikson, btholt, benlesh_.
 
For each developer, I used GitHub's starring api to fetch their recently starred repos, limited the scope to the past 6 months, filtered out non JavaScript/TypeScript repos, then counted total stars form the user list for each repo and found the projects with multiple stars.
  
Here's a gist with some messy code that does it.
https://gist.github.com/ryanjyost/3e04237e11156c0784a7f101b4efc144#file-getstars-js