Valentine’s Day is about to come and we all are gearing up to welcome it. So while people fill up their wardrobes for this Valentine, have you filled up your tool box with the latest trendy resources? We bring you plenty of premium quality resources in to add to your Arsenal. For this roundup we have chosen some of the best frameworks and boilerplates, new design resources, JavaScript resources, resources for start-ups, color resources, and much more.
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1. Nunchuck.js
Nunchuck.js is a library for mobile web-based control of browser applications. It’s easy multi-device data synchronization through the browser. They provide a library that easily allows developers to integrate mobile browser controls into desktop browser-based javascript games with very few ( less than15) lines of code.
2. Aurelia
Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity. With its strong focus on developer experience, Aurelia can enable you to not only create amazing applications, but also enjoy the process. They’ve designed it with simple conventions in mind so you don’t need to waste time with tons of configuration or write boilerplate code just to satisfy a stubborn or restrictive framework. It’s been carefully designed to be pluggable and customizable.
3. Remark
Remark lets you easily create markdown-driven slideshows right in your browser. It was created for people who know HTML and CSS, and includes presenter mode, syntax highlighting, and more.
4. Andy.scss
Andy.scss is a collection of free, useful SASS mixins. It includes mixins for things like background gradients, borders, shadows, and more.
5. SpaceBase
SpaceBase is a Sass-based responsive CSS framework. Many CSS frameworks are meant to be included and left alone. But spaceBase is a boilerplate layer that can be built upon and tailored for your needs. It combines best practices for today’s responsive web with the core components we use on every project. Consider it the launch pad for your adventures into cyberspace.
6. Matter.js
Matter.js is a JavaScript 2D rigid body physics engine for the web. The Matter.Engine module contains methods for creating and manipulating engines. An engine is a controller that manages updating and rendering the simulation of the world. Matter.js is currently only alpha status, meaning the API is still in development and may change occasionally. The library is reasonably stable as-is, but it is not yet feature complete.
7. Materialize
Materialize is a modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design. They did most of the heavy lifting for you to provide a default stylings that incorporate your custom components. Additionally, they refined animations and transitions to provide a smoother experience for developers.
8.Migrat
Migrat is a pluggable Node.js migration tool that is not tied any particular database engine and supports multi-node environments. It’s designed for diverse stacks and processes, and allows migrations to be run once globally or once per server.
9. Bedrock
Bedrock is a minimalist boilerplate for building Express apps. It sets up your views and layout files, sets up a place to store config data, loads popular front-end code, and more.
10. Bootsy
Bootsy is a simple folder structure for your small projects. It includes versioning and templates folders to make your project easier to organize and maintain.
11. Face++
Face++ is a new vision platform built by Megvii Inc. aiming at providing compact, powerful, and cross-platform vision service. Face++ uses the cutting-edge technology of computer vision and data mining to provide 3 core vision services (Detection, Recognition, and Analysis).
12. 6to5
6to5 has plugins for all of your favorite build systems. Check out the official plugins for Gulp, Grunt, Browserify, Webpack, Brocolli, and many more. Using either the CLI or require hook, you can easily setup 6to5 to work with your Node.js app. Module authors can also easily precompile their assets before publishing to npm.
13. Eskimo
Eskimo makes it easier to rapidly build Node.js apps, online stores, APIs, and more. It’s built with open-source packages, and can be used for everything from coming soon pages to referral systems to CDN-hosted assets.
14. Touchstone.js
TouchstoneJS is a UI framework powered by React.js for developing hybrid mobile apps. It includes form components, navigation, transitions, native touch behaviors, and much more, with more features on the way.
15. FormatJS
FormatJS is a modular collection of JavaScript libraries for internationalization that are focused on formatting numbers, dates, and strings for displaying to people. It includes a set of core libraries that build on the JavaScript Intl built-ins and industry-wide i18n standards, plus a set of integrations for common template and component libraries.
FormatJS has been tested in all the major browsers on both desktop and mobile devices. Careful attention has been applied to make sure the libraries work in ES3 browsers all the way down to IE 6. For many web apps rendering happens on the server, so they made sure FormatJS works perfectly in Node.js.
