- N1, an extensible mail app built on Electron: 8,588 stars
- Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s IDE (also built on Electron): 7,847 stars
- Clipboard.js, a JavaScript clipboard management library: 6,522 stars
- create-react-app, Facebook’s incubator for React apps: 6,348 stars
- Anime, a JavaScript animation library: 6,013 stars
JavaScript and Swift: Stars Of GitHub
[caption id="attachment_137915" align="aligncenter" width="993"] GitHub says JavaScript is a star.[/caption] Curious about which of those exciting new GitHub repos you’ve been monitoring is actually the most popular? The company just released a blog post detailing how many stars the most desirable repos earned in their first week, revealing some interesting results (and quite a bit of JavaScript). Swift, Apple’s newest programming language, was far and away the most popular repo on GitHub in its first week. Released December 3, 2015 to the open source community, the main repo garnered a massive 23,097 stars in seven days. Considering Swift's scope – Apple is basically asking all iOS developers to make an about-face, and there’s good reason to think it will be coming for macOS soon enough – its place at the top of the heap is warranted. A surprise second place finish goes to Yarn, Facebook’s new JavaScript NPM manager. It’s not a re-working of NPM, just a different (most would say nicer) way to manage dependencies. Released October 11, it earned 16,068 stars in the course of week one. Yarn proves that JavaScript developers are finding favor with their new method for managing and leaning into libraries. Google’s TensorFlow earned the third most stars in its first week, with 11,822 stars. It allows developers interested in machine learning to tap into the tools Google uses for things such as Gmail, Photos and Search. Facebook’s React Native, a framework for building native apps, earned 10,976 stars in its first week. Rounding out the top five is Material Design Lite, Google’s design language meant for static content webpages. Considering both have a strong bent towards mobile, it’s a nice way to round out the top five, showing mobility continues to dominate our technical landscape. The rest of the top ten: