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There needs to be directory of curated high quality libraries. It is very hard to filter through the noice.

nox101 3y ago
You need to know on what criteria the libraries are judged. Some people will judge most features = best, even if that means some string decoding library installs a 1500 other libraries so it can render PDFs of the strings it decoded and it installs a file system watcher so it can re-render them as they change. Me, I'd choose the library that just decodes and nothing else but plenty of devs want it to "do all the things"
Octoth0rpe 3y ago
Have you tried looked through the 'awesome' pages on github? https://github.com/topics/awesome https://github.com/topics/awesome
jeanlucas 3y ago
There is, here you go: https://bestofjs.org/ https://bestofjs.org/
- popcorncowboy 3y ago
  This is a "Hot 100" style list, useful only for finding what's popular. There is no quality metric here.
  - jeanlucas 3y ago
    You should give it a try. There are quality lists, and even a hand picked annual list: https://risingstars.js.org/2023/en https://risingstars.js.org/2023/en It is not only based on popularity.
    - popcorncowboy 3y ago
      > It is not only based on popularity. Except it literally is? [0] Doesn't mean it's not fun/useful though! Stars are a kind of handwave proxy for utility. And it's useful to see what's catching fire and what's staying lit. - [0] "The following graphs compare the number of stars added on GitHub over the last 12 months."
      - jeanlucas 3y ago
        There are more lists... Look it up. I didn't know people needed to be spoonfed links so directly, geez.
        popcorncowboy 3y ago
        So link them and be helpful rather than mouth off. The links you provided are to GH star-based lists, and all the sub-lists on those pages are also star-based lists. I'm sure you're right, so I'm keen to see what you're talking about.
hughess 3y ago
I found this difficult as well, so I ended up making this Google sheet to compare: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1belBpTKOPGaCC230l0nstw7NF0YCUTH7GYAHwt6x6Us/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1belBpTKOPGaCC230l0ns...

You need to know on what criteria the libraries are judged. Some people will judge most features = best, even if that means some string decoding library installs a 1500 other libraries so it can render PDFs of the strings it decoded and it installs a file system watcher so it can re-render them as they change. Me, I'd choose the library that just decodes and nothing else but plenty of devs want it to "do all the things"

Octoth0rpe 3y ago

Have you tried looked through the 'awesome' pages on github? https://github.com/topics/awesome https://github.com/topics/awesome

jeanlucas 3y ago

There is, here you go: https://bestofjs.org/ https://bestofjs.org/

popcorncowboy 3y ago
This is a "Hot 100" style list, useful only for finding what's popular. There is no quality metric here.
- jeanlucas 3y ago
  You should give it a try. There are quality lists, and even a hand picked annual list: https://risingstars.js.org/2023/en https://risingstars.js.org/2023/en It is not only based on popularity.
  - popcorncowboy 3y ago
    > It is not only based on popularity. Except it literally is? [0] Doesn't mean it's not fun/useful though! Stars are a kind of handwave proxy for utility. And it's useful to see what's catching fire and what's staying lit. - [0] "The following graphs compare the number of stars added on GitHub over the last 12 months."
    - jeanlucas 3y ago
      There are more lists... Look it up. I didn't know people needed to be spoonfed links so directly, geez.
      - popcorncowboy 3y ago
        So link them and be helpful rather than mouth off. The links you provided are to GH star-based lists, and all the sub-lists on those pages are also star-based lists. I'm sure you're right, so I'm keen to see what you're talking about.

hughess 3y ago

I found this difficult as well, so I ended up making this Google sheet to compare: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1belBpTKOPGaCC230l0nstw7NF0YCUTH7GYAHwt6x6Us/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1belBpTKOPGaCC230l0ns...