Frontend Encyclopedia
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- Jade: Template Engine by TJ Holowaychuk and contributors (2010 - 2015, Renamed to Pug)
- Jasmine: Testing Library by Pivotal Labs and contributors (2009)
- JavaScript: Language by Brendan Eich (1995)
- Jekyll: Static Site Generator by Tom Preston-Werner and contributors (2008)
- Jest: Testing Library by Facebook, Inc. (2014)
- joi: Data Validation Library by hapi.js (2012)
- jQuery: Utility Library by John Resig and jQuery Team (2006)
- jsdoc: Library by jsdoc (2015)
- JSON-RPC: Specification by Jeffrey Lee and others (2005)
- JSON: Data Format by Douglas Crockford (2001)
- jsPDF: Library by jsdoc (2014)
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- OAuth: Specification by OAuth Community (2007)
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- Panda: CSS Framework by Panda CSS Team (2023)
- Parcel: Build Tool by Devs (2017)
- phaser: Game Development by Phaser Team (2013)
- Pinia: State Management Library by Eduardo San Martin Morote (2019)
- PixiJS: UI Library by Goodboy Digital (2013)
- Playwright: Testing Library by Microsoft (2020)
- pnpm: Package Manager by pnpm Team (2016)
- polished: Library by Styled-components Team (2017)
- Postman: API Client by Postman Team (2012)
- Prettier: Code Formatter by James Long (2017)
- Pug: Template Engine by Pug Team (2016, Formerly known as Jade. Last release was in 2021.)
- Pure: CSS Framework by Yahoo Inc. (2013)
- PWA: Web Application Model by Web Community (2015)
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- Sass: Language by Hampton Catlin, Nathan Weizenbaum, Chris Eppstein (2006)
- Semantic UI: UI Library by Semantic-Org (2013)
- SemVer: Specification by Tom Preston-Werner, Drew LeSueur (2011)
- SEO: Development Practice by Danny Sullivan (1997)
- Service Worker: Web API by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2014)
- Sinon.JS: Testing Library by Christian Johansen, and Contributors (2015)
- Socket.IO: Library by LearnBoost, Guillermo Rauch (2010)
- SolidJS: Framework by Ryan Carniato (2018)
- SPA: Web Application Model by Lucas Birdeau, Kevin Hakman, Michael Peachey and Clifford Yeh (2003)
- Spectre.css: CSS Framework by Yan Zhu (2016)
- spruce: CSS Framework by Matthew Phillips (2021)
- SSR: Web Application Model by Netscape (1995)
- Storybook: Documentation Library by Chroma, Storybook Maintainers (2016)
- styled-components: Library by Max Stoiber, Glen Maddern, Phil Plückthun (2016)
- Sublime Text: Text Editor by Jon Skinner (2008)
- Supabase: Backend-as-a-Service by Supabase Team (2020)
- Svelte: Framework by Rich Harris (2016)
- SVG: Data Format by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2001)
- sweetalert2: UI Library by Luis Fernando Alvarez, Contributors (2015)
- SWR: Library by Vercel (2019)
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- Tailwind CSS: CSS Framework by Adam Wathan, Jonathan Reinink, David Hemphill, Steve Schoger (2017)
- Tamagui: UI Components Library by Tamagui Team (2022)
- TanStack Query: Library by Tanstack (2014, Formerly known as React Query.)
- Tanstack Table: Library by Tanstack (2014, Formerly known as React Table.)
- TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning Library by Google, TensorFlow.js Team (2018)
- Three.js: UI Library by Ricardo Cabello (Mr.doob), Contributors (2013)
- Tone.js: Library by Yotam Mann, Contributors (2014)
- Travis CI: CI/CD Service by Travis CI Team (2011, Free plan stopped in 2020)
- TSDX: Library by Jared Palmer, Kyle Gill, Contributors (2019)
- TSLint: Linter by Palantir Technologies, Contributors (2013 - 2019)
- TypeScript: Language, Type Checker by Microsoft, Anders Hejlsberg (2012)
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- Underscore.js: Utility Library by Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud, Investigative Reporters & Editors (2009)
- upload.js: Library by UPLOADCARE LLC (2021)
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- webpack: Build Tool by Tobias Koppers, Sean Larkin, and Webpack contributors (2012)
- WebRTC: Web API by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2011)
- WebSocket: Technology by IETF (2011)
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- XState: State Management Library by David Khourshid and XState contributors (2017)
- xstyled: CSS Framework by Brent Jackson and xstyled contributors (2019)
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- Yarn: Package Manager by Yarn Contributors (2016)
- yo: Library by Yeoman Team (2014)
- Yup: Data Validation Library by Jason Quense (2015)
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- z-index: CSS Methodology by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (1997)
- Zod: Data Validation Library by Vercel, Leonardo Faria (2020)
- zustand: State Management Library by Paul Mendez and zustand contributors (2019)
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