Front-end Technologies

RxJS

Library for working with asynchronous operations, with special emphasis on multi-valued operations. The library gives the developer a common "language" they can use to write functional code to manipulate asynchronous streams no matter the stream source.

SAML

XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information. Main purpose is facilitating the creation and exchanging security information between online partners.

Sass

Syntactically awesome stylesheets (Sass) is CSS preprocessor with syntax advancements. Stylesheets in the advanced syntax are processed by the program, and turned into regular CSS stylesheets.

SCSS

An extension of CSS. SCSS contains all the features of CSS, but has been expanded to include the features of Sass as well.

SCSS (Sassy CSS) is a type of syntaxes available for Sass, being an extension of the syntax of CSS. This syntax is enhanced with the Sass features described below. Files using this syntax have the .scss extension.

Skeleton

It is a lightweight CSS boilerplate. Skeleton doesn't require installation and has limited functionality, only what is necessary for kickstarting a small project. It can style the basic HTML elements, such as the grid, buttons, forms and lists, typography, tables, and media queries.

Socket.IO

JavaScript networking library that runs server-side on Node.js and in the browser. It abstracts away websockets and other communication schemes and thus enables to "push" messages from the client to the server and vice versa using symmetric syntax.

Solid.js

Solid.js is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, particularly web applications. It focuses on performance and reactivity, offering a virtual DOM and fine-grained reactivity system to efficiently update the user interface.

Spine JS

A JavaScript MVC framework for building web apps. Aims to simplify MVC and integrates well with CoffeeScript. It is simple, lightweight, has minimal dependencies and approachable source code; great for teams. 

SSGs

SSGs typically stand for Static Site Generators. These are tools or frameworks used in web development to generate static websites from various data sources, templates, and content. They offer the advantage of faster load times and security compared to dynamic websites while making it easier to manage content and structure.

SSR

Stands for server-side rendering. SSR is a popular technique for rendering a normally client-side only single page app (SPA) on the server and then sending a fully rendered page to the client. 

Storybook

An open source tool for developing UI components in isolation for React, Vue, and Angular.

Styled Components

One of the new ways to use CSS in modern JavaScript. It is the meant to be a successor of CSS Modules, a way to write CSS that's scoped to a single component, and not leak to any other element in the page.

Stylus

Dynamic stylesheet language that is compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Regarded as the fourth most used CSS preprocessor syntax.

Sublime Text

Fast and feature-packed text and development editor for Windows, OS X and Linux. Sublime Text is beginner-friendly, you can customize almost any aspect of the sublime editor. Featured by the speed and stability.

Svelte

A tool for building fast web applications. Svelte converts an app into ideal JavaScript at build time, rather than interpreting application code at run time. 

SvelteKit

SvelteKit is a JavaScript framework based on Svelte, which uses a compiler, allowing developers to create compact components that perform minimal tasks in the browser. 

Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS is an open-source CSS framework that helps developers create modern websites quickly by using CSS classes directly in HTML, without needing to write separate CSS code.

Three.js

A framework build on top of WebGL which makes it easier to create 3D graphics in the browser, it uses a canvas + WebGL to display the 3D scene.

Thunk

A middleware that allows our action creators to return a function instead of an action object. The thunk can be used to delay the dispatch of an action, or to dispatch only if a certain condition is met. It looks at every action that passed through the system; and if it’s a function, it calls that function. 

Turbopack

Turbopack is a JavaScript bundler and runtime for the web that focuses on fast loading times and optimized delivery of JavaScript code, resulting in improved web performance. Turbopack is written in Rust. 

Turret

Styles and browser behaviour normalisation framework for rapid development of responsive and accessible websites. Designed to make responsive, accessible, and scalable CSS development simple, and predictable.

TypeORM

An ORM that can run in NodeJS, Browser, Cordova, PhoneGap, Ionic, React Native, NativeScript, Expo, and Electron platforms and can be used with TypeScript and JavaScript.

TypeScript

Extension (a “superset”) of the JavaScript language. It differentiates itself from competitors like CoffeeScript and Dart in that plain JavaScript code can be intermixed with TypeScript. Primarily provides optional static typing, classes and interfaces.

Underscore.js

JavaScript library that provides useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects. It adds a bunch of basic operations on arrays, collections, functions, and objects.

Vanilla JS

A term for library/framework free JavaScript. Using "VanillaJS" means using plain JavaScript without any additional libraries like jQuery.