Here are some popular new repositories that can be interesting for web developers. All of them earned their first 1500 stars in 2016. github Dependency Management — Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management. Yarn https://yarnpkg.com (Oct 2016) React — List of design patterns/techniques used while developing with React React in patterns (Jul 2016) React Boilerplates — Create React apps with no build configuration Create React App (Jul 2016) — A minimalistic framework for universal server-rendered React applications Next.js https://zeit.co/blog/next (Oct 2016) — React + Redux starter kit / boilerplate with Babel, hot reloading, testing, linting and a working example app, all built in React Slingshot (Jan 2016) UI Components — A React framework for building text editors. Draft.js https://facebook.github.io/draft-js/ (Mar 2016) — Redefined chart library built with React and D3 Recharts http://recharts.org (Jan 2016) — Visual primitives for the component age 💅 Styled Components http://styled-components.com (Sep 2016) — An easily internationalizable, mobile-friendly datepicker library for the web React-dates http://airbnb.io/react-dates (Aug 2016) End to end testing — Automated browser testing for the modern web development stack. TestCafe https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe (Oct 2016) Javascript frameworks — the only framework that makes responsive-email easy MJML https://mjml.io (Feb 2016) — 🚂🚋🚋🚋 — sturdy frontend framework Choo https://bit.ly/choo-handbook (May 2016) — The magical disappearing UI framework Svelte https://svelte.technology (Nov 2016) UI Widgets, plugins, components — lightweight and powerful datetimepicker with no dependencies Flatpickr https://chmln.github.io/flatpickr (Apr 2016) — 🌐 Turn any <input> into an address autocomplete Algolia Places https://community.algolia.com/places/ (Apr 2016) — A kickass library to manage your poppers Popper.js https://popper.js.org (Apr 2016) — Fullscreen HTML5 Background Video for the Web. Bideo.js https://rishabhp.github.io/bideo.js/ (May 2016) — Animation Engine (Jun 2016) Anime.js Javascript http://anime-js.com Utilites, tools — Parse-compatible API server module for Node/Express (Jan 2016) Parse Server https://parse.com — A CLI dashboard for webpack dev server (Aug 2016) Webpack-dashboard — Auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for Progressive Web Apps (Mar 2016) Lighthouse — ⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️ (Mar 2016) date-fns https://date-fns.org — Optimize a JavaScript file for faster initial load by wrapping eagerly-invoked functions (Sep 2016) Optimize-js — A lightweight, extendable front-end developer tool for mobile web page (Apr 2016) vConsole Tutorials — Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch JavaScript Stack from Scratch — ES2015 [ES6] cheatsheet containing tips, tricks, best practices and code snippets es6-cheatsheet — Let’s learn a new technology every week. A new technology blog every Sunday in 2016 52 technologies in 2016 … and a couple more These are repositories that emerged at the end of 2015 but became popular in 2016. — An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces Inferno http://infernojs.org — Fast 3kb React alternative with the same ES6 API. Components & Virtual DOM. Preact https://preactjs.com
