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A

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
a11y (Accessibility)	Development Practice		1999
Ajax	Technology	Jesse James Garrett	1999
AlertifyJS	UI Library	Vitaliy Potapov	2015
Angular Universal	Technology	Google	2017
Angular	Framework	Misko Hevery and Adam Abrons	2016
AngularJS	Framework	Misko Hevery and Adam Abrons	2010 - 2021	Replaced by Angular
Anime.js	Library	Julian Garnier	2016
Ant Design	UI Components Library	Ant Group	2015
Apollo	Library	Geoff Schmidt	2016
Astro	Framework	Astro	2021
Atom	Text Editor	GitHub	2013 - 2022
Axios	Library	Axios Community	2014

B

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Babel	Build Tool	Babel Team	2014
Backbone.js	Framework	Jeremy Ashkenas	2010
BEM	CSS Methodology	Yandex	2010
Bitbucket	Version Control System	Atlassian	2008
Bootstrap	CSS Framework	Twitter, Inc.	2011
Browserify	Build Tool	James Halliday	2011	Last release was in 2020.
Bulma	CSS Framework	Jeremy Thomas	2016

C

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Chai	Testing Library	Chai.js Contributors	2011
Chakra UI	UI Components Library	Chakra UI Team	2020
Chart.js	UI Library	Chart.js Contributors	2013
CircleCI	CI/CD Service	CircleCI, Inc.	2011
Cloudflare	Deployment & Hosting	Cloudflare, Inc.	2010
CoffeeScript	Language	Jeremy Ashkenas	2009	Last release was in 2022.
Cropper.js	Library	Fengyuan Chen	2015
CSS	Language	W3C	1996
ct.js	Game Development	ct.js	2019
Cypress	Testing Library	Cypress	2014

D

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
D3.js	UI Library	Mike Bostock	2011
date-fns	Date & Time Library	date-fns Contributors	2015
day.js	Date & Time Library	iamkun	2018
Deno	Runtime Environment	Deno Land	2020
Docusaurus	Documentation Library	Facebook	2017
docz	Documentation Library	docz Contributors	2018
DOM	Web API	W3C	1998

E

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
ECharts	UI Library	Apache Software Foundation	2015
EJS	Template Engine	TJ Holowaychuk	2011
Electron	Framework	GitHub	2013
Eleventy	Static Site Generator	Zach Leatherman	2017
Ember.js	Framework	Ember.js Contributors	2011
Enzyme	Testing Library	Airbnb	2015	Last release was in 2019.
ES2022	Specification	Ecma International	2022
ESLint	Linter	ESLint Team	2013
Evergreen	UI Components Library	Segment	2018

F

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Fastify	Backend-as-a-Service	Matteo Collina, Tomas Della Vedova, and others	2016
Figma	Design Tool	Dylan Field, Evan Wallace	2016
Firebase	Backend-as-a-Service	Firebase (acquired by Google)	2012
Flow	Type Checker	Facebook	2014
Flowbite	UI Components Library	Themesberg	2021
Flutter	Framework	Google	2017
Font Awesome	Icon Library	Fonticons, Inc.	2012
Formik	UI Library	Jared Palmer	2017
Foundation	UI Components Library	ZURB	2011
Framer Motion	Library		2019

G

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Gatsby	Framework	Kyle Mathews and the Gatsby team	2015
Git	Version Control System	Linus Torvalds and others	2005
GitHub Pages	Deployment & Hosting	GitHub, Inc.	2008
GitHub	Version Control System	GitHub, Inc.	2008
GitLab	Version Control System	GitLab, Inc.	2011
Glide.js	UI Library	Jedrzej Kurylo	2014
GraphQL	Specification	Facebook, Inc.	2015
Greensock Animation Platform (GSAP)	Library		2013
Grunt	Build Tool	Ben Alman and contributors	2016
Gulp	Build Tool	Fractal, Inc. and the open-source community	2013

H

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Headless UI	UI Components Library	Tailwind Labs	2020
Heroicons	Icon Library	Tailwind Labs	2020
Highcharts	UI Library	Highsoft AS	2014
HTML	Language	Tim Berners-Lee	1993
HTMX	Library	Carson Gross	2020
Hugo	Static Site Generator	Bjørn Erik Pedersen and contributors	2013

I

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
i18n (internationalization)	Development Practice	IBM	1970
Immer	Utility Library	Michel Weststrate and contributors	2017
Immutable.js	Utility Library	Facebook, Inc.	2013
Insomnia	API Client	Kong, Inc. and contributors	2016
Ionic	Framework	Max Lynch, Ben Sperry, and Adam Bradley	2012

J

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Jade	Template Engine	TJ Holowaychuk and contributors	2010 - 2015	Renamed to Pug
Jasmine	Testing Library	Pivotal Labs and contributors	2009
JavaScript	Language	Brendan Eich	1995
Jekyll	Static Site Generator	Tom Preston-Werner and contributors	2008
Jest	Testing Library	Facebook, Inc.	2014
joi	Data Validation Library	hapi.js	2012
jQuery	Utility Library	John Resig and jQuery Team	2006
jsdoc	Library	jsdoc	2015
JSON-RPC	Specification	Jeffrey Lee and others	2005
JSON	Data Format	Douglas Crockford	2001
jsPDF	Library	jsdoc	2014

K

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Kaboom	Game Development	Replit	2021
Karma	Testing Library	Vojta Jina	2013

L

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Less	Language	Less Team	2009
Lodash	Utility Library	Lodash Team	2012

M

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Mantine	UI Library	Mantine Team	2021
Material UI	UI Components Library	Material-UI Team	2014
Materialize	CSS Framework	Materialize Team	2022
Meteor.js	Framework	Meteor Development Group	2012
Mirage JS	Mocking Library	Mirage JS Team	2019
Mocha	Testing Library	Mocha Team	2011
Modernizr	Utility Library		2009
Moment.js	Date & Time Library	Moment.js Team	2011
MVP.css	CSS Framework	Andy Brewer	2020

N

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
NestJS	Framework	NestJS Team	2017
Netlify	Deployment & Hosting	Netlify Team	2015
Next.js	Framework	Vercel	2016
Nextra	Documentation Library, Static Site Generator	Shuding	2021
Node Cron	Library	Felix Böhm	2016
Node.js	Runtime Environment	Node.js Foundation	2009
npm	Package Manager	Isaac Z. Schlueter	2010
Nuxt.js	Framework	Nuxt.js Team	2016

O

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
OAuth	Specification	OAuth Community	2007

P

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Panda	CSS Framework	Panda CSS Team	2023
Parcel	Build Tool	Devs	2017
phaser	Game Development	Phaser Team	2013
Pinia	State Management Library	Eduardo San Martin Morote	2019
PixiJS	UI Library	Goodboy Digital	2013
Playwright	Testing Library	Microsoft	2020
pnpm	Package Manager	pnpm Team	2016
polished	Library	Styled-components Team	2017
Postman	API Client	Postman Team	2012
Prettier	Code Formatter	James Long	2017
Pug	Template Engine	Pug Team	2016	Formerly known as Jade. Last release was in 2021.
Pure	CSS Framework	Yahoo Inc.	2013
PWA	Web Application Model	Web Community	2015

Q

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Quasar	Framework	Razvan Stoenescu	2016
Qwik	Framework	Builder.io	2023

R

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Radix UI	UI Components Library	Modulz	2020
Ramda	Utility Library	Ramda Contributors	2014
React Bootstrap	UI Components Library	React Bootstrap Team	2018
React Hook Form	UI Library	React Hook Form Team	2019
React Native	Framework	Facebook	2015
React Testing Library	Testing Library	Testing Library Team	2018
react-icons	Icon Library	React Icons Team	2016
React-Toastify	UI Library	Furkan Özden	2017
React	Framework, Library	Facebook	2013
Rebass	UI Components Library	Rebass Team	2018
Redux Toolkit	State Management Library	Redux Team	2019
Redux-Saga	State Management Library	Yassine Elouafi	2015
Redux	State Management Library	Dan Abramov	2011
RefluxJS	State Management Library	Reflux Team	2014	Last release was in 2017.
Relay	Library	Facebook	2016
Remeda	Utility Library		2018
Remix	Framework	Remix Team	2021
Render	Deployment & Hosting	Render Team	2019
REST	Specification	Roy Fielding	2000
reveal.js	Framework	Hakim El Hattab	2013
Rollup	Build Tool	Rich Harris	2015
RxJS	Library	RxJS Contributors	2015

S

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Sass	Language	Hampton Catlin, Nathan Weizenbaum, Chris Eppstein	2006
Semantic UI	UI Library	Semantic-Org	2013
SemVer	Specification	Tom Preston-Werner, Drew LeSueur	2011
SEO	Development Practice	Danny Sullivan	1997
Service Worker	Web API	World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)	2014
Sinon.JS	Testing Library	Christian Johansen, and Contributors	2015
Socket.IO	Library	LearnBoost, Guillermo Rauch	2010
SolidJS	Framework	Ryan Carniato	2018
SPA	Web Application Model	Lucas Birdeau, Kevin Hakman, Michael Peachey and Clifford Yeh	2003
Spectre.css	CSS Framework	Yan Zhu	2016
spruce	CSS Framework	Matthew Phillips	2021
SSR	Web Application Model	Netscape	1995
Storybook	Documentation Library	Chroma, Storybook Maintainers	2016
styled-components	Library	Max Stoiber, Glen Maddern, Phil Plückthun	2016
Sublime Text	Text Editor	Jon Skinner	2008
Supabase	Backend-as-a-Service	Supabase Team	2020
Svelte	Framework	Rich Harris	2016
SVG	Data Format	World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)	2001
sweetalert2	UI Library	Luis Fernando Alvarez, Contributors	2015
SWR	Library	Vercel	2019

T

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Tailwind CSS	CSS Framework	Adam Wathan, Jonathan Reinink, David Hemphill, Steve Schoger	2017
Tamagui	UI Components Library	Tamagui Team	2022
TanStack Query	Library	Tanstack	2014	Formerly known as React Query.
Tanstack Table	Library	Tanstack	2014	Formerly known as React Table.
TensorFlow.js	Machine Learning Library	Google, TensorFlow.js Team	2018
Three.js	UI Library	Ricardo Cabello (Mr.doob), Contributors	2013
Tone.js	Library	Yotam Mann, Contributors	2014
Travis CI	CI/CD Service	Travis CI Team	2011	Free plan stopped in 2020
TSDX	Library	Jared Palmer, Kyle Gill, Contributors	2019
TSLint	Linter	Palantir Technologies, Contributors	2013 - 2019
TypeScript	Language, Type Checker	Microsoft, Anders Hejlsberg	2012

U

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Underscore.js	Utility Library	Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud, Investigative Reporters & Editors	2009
upload.js	Library	UPLOADCARE LLC	2021

V

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Vercel	Deployment & Hosting	Vercel Inc.	2015
Video.js	Library	Brightcove, Contributors	2013
Viewer.js	Library	Fengyuan Chen, Contributors	2015
Visual Studio Code	Text Editor	Microsoft, Visual Studio Code Team	2015
Vite	Build Tool	Evan You, Vite Team	2020
VitePress	Documentation Library, Static Site Generator	VitePress Team	2020
Vitest	Testing Library	Vite Team	2021
Vue.js	Framework	Evan You	2014
VuePress	Documentation Library, Static Site Generator	VuePress Team	2018

W

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
webpack	Build Tool	Tobias Koppers, Sean Larkin, and Webpack contributors	2012
WebRTC	Web API	World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)	2011
WebSocket	Technology	IETF	2011

X

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
XState	State Management Library	David Khourshid and XState contributors	2017
xstyled	CSS Framework	Brent Jackson and xstyled contributors	2019

Y

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
Yarn	Package Manager	Yarn Contributors	2016
yo	Library	Yeoman Team	2014
Yup	Data Validation Library	Jason Quense	2015

Z

Name	Type	Author	Year	Note
z-index	CSS Methodology	World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)	1997
Zod	Data Validation Library	Vercel, Leonardo Faria	2020
zustand	State Management Library	Paul Mendez and zustand contributors	2019

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