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Ask HN: High Quality JavaScript Code Bases?

by atomicnature on 7/4/24, 12:45 PM with 5 comments

Are there any JS projects which you consider to be top notch and worthy of emulation.

Library code is OK, but extra +1 if you can point me towards any extremely well done application level JS.

Thanks.

  • by simonhfrost on 7/4/24, 7:32 PM

    Although it's not my stack of choice, it's generally a good starting point:

    https://github.com/ixartz/SaaS-Boilerplate

  • by krapp on 7/5/24, 11:23 AM

    JQuery.

    I'm serious. Every time I see modern JS I look back at the JQuery ecosystem and it seems like we were all expelled from paradise. Elegant, modular, flexible, simple. Easy to use and extend. Even had a GUI library. No need for cross-compilation. No need for a package manager with a centralized namespace and a brittle and easily sabotaged dependency tree, because the web itself is the package manager (as God intended.)

  • by sandreas on 7/4/24, 2:24 PM

    Apache Guacamole

    Extremely elegant ES5 project

    https://github.com/apache/guacamole-client (mirror)

  • by thorin on 7/4/24, 10:06 PM

    I remember jquery being an early classic with some annotated versions being available when I had an interest in learning js. No idea how much it has dated now.