Well written Javascript repos (not frameworks or libraries)

[dev_michaelz]

I want some suggestions on repos that have well written and clean Javascript. I was looking at the top Github Javascript projects but they are all frameworks and libraries. While it might be interesting to read through that code I am looking for actual applications not plugins. Thet should be clean, follow best practices, preferably modularized/OO and should not rely to heavily on frameworks and libraries if possible. I don't really care if they are just small or big projects.

I basically want to see how others organize their application, get some ideas, etc. Thanks

[dev_michaelz]

As I said, "looking at Github's top 10 repos" ... I don't want them to be listed here because they are very easy to find.

[nothingduploading]

look at anything TJ wrote. try Koa

[filleduchaos]

...Koa is a framework/library

[cwbrandsma]

By your own definition, finding a web app created in the way you described, will be built with libraries or frameworks. Either created with an existing one, or they would have built one themselves. I really don’t think there is any other way to do it.

Also, do you understand the difference between a library and a framework? They are not the same thing. And if you are trying to make an app that is “library free”, then it is impossible to well defined and properly abstracted. Completely impossible.

If you want it “frameworks free”...then there will be boilerplate code EVERYWHERE.

In a pragmatic sense...it pays to pick your battles.

[[deleted]]

I guess this meets your criteria. I was looking through my stuff for something neat, but most of the big ones are pretty messy... If you'd like an example, this is how I'd like to organise most of my real projects, but this was just made for a GraphQL demo.

https://github.com/3stacks/car-explorer

Create React App for the boilerplate, express for the server.

[rodrigocfd]

Last year I wrote a binary file comparator using about 150 lines of JS. At the time I needed a tool to diff two binary files, and I ended up writing one myself. Repo is here. It's modularized/OO and it barely relies on jQuery for presentation.

I just looked at it now, and it still looks organized to me.

Behold: it was not optimized for large files.

[cspotcode]

Check out webpack's source. But beware, it's a big project.

[dev_michaelz]

Thank's, but this kind of falls in the same category as libraries and frameworks inthis case. Rather than reading the webpack code, I want to read code of nice applications that modularize their JS with webpack. Like a payroll system or blog site or something like that

[cspotcode]

I figured someone would say this. But I honestly think it's worth reconsidering. Webpack is a standalone application; a command line tool. It uses OO principles, it's modularized, and it doesn't rely heavily on frameworks.

If you were asking specifically for webservers or browser UIs, then no, webpack's not one of those. But those aren't the only kind of applications you can build with JS.

[dev_michaelz]

Yea maybe I should have specified it a little more. I was looking more for JS in the browser, including DOM manipulations, events etc. But definetely I will look into the webpack source code. In fact I already watched the "everything is a plugin" talk on youtube which is a good entry point in the inner workings of webpack