10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for November 2018

Our mission at Tutorialzine is to keep you up to date with the latest and coolest trends in web development. That’s why every month we release a handpicked collection of some of the best resources that we’ve stumbled upon and deemed worthy of your attention.

Omi

This is a next generation web framework that combines the advantages of Web Componenets and JSX in one. It is based on Shadow DOM, offers TypeScript support, and has modern reactive data-binding. What is more, Omi is extremely lightweight (4kb gzipped) and comes with an easy-to-use Chrome extension for debugging.

Evergreen

Evergreen is a React UI framework for building modern and functional projects. It includes a number of React components that are ready-to-use, without any configurations. All the components are highly flexible and composable, so you can craft beautiful and responsive layouts.

Ervy

This is an interesting library that allows you to create different types of charts right in your terminal. It is really simple to use and doesn't have any dependencies. It supports Bar, Pie, Bullet, Donut, Gauge and Scatter chart types.

Larametrics

Larametrics is a self-hosted metrics and notifications platform for Laravel. It shows you notifications about incoming requests, changes made in your models and messages written in the log. All of your data is self-contained in your app and on your database. It is compatible with Laravel 5.2+.

Pennywise

Pennywise allows you to open any website or app in a tiny floating window that remains on top of all other applications. You can adjust the window's opacity, resize or move it anywhere you like. Pennywise makes multitasking very easy, and helps you to speed up your workflow, and thus increase your productivity.

Sal

A tiny vanilla JavaScript library for creating scroll animations. Sal is based on the Observer API, which allows it to be super performant and not rely on any external dependencies. It is extremely lightweight (less than 2.8 kb), easy-to-use, and supports a number of animations like fade, slide, zoom and flip.

Butter Cake

Butter Cake is an open source CSS framework based on Flexbox. It makes it possible to craft modern and mobile-first designs without having to write too many lines of CSS. It is highly modular, and offers a large number of responsive components and elements that you can choose from.

Nachos UI

A React Native component library containing over 30 customizable UI elements. You can find loading indicators, form inputs, a gravatar interface, and much more. The project's documentation makes it really easy to understand how to implement each component and all the options that come with it.

Glorious Demo

This fun JavaScript library takes your code and creates beautiful animations of it being typed in a terminal. It has a simple API that takes a series of instructions and animates them one after another, allowing you to make some awesome code demos.

SpaceTime

A tiny JavaScript timezone library that allows you to handle time, dates and timezones with almost no effort. You can create, add, subtract and compare dates, and change their timezone and format. What is more, the library supports methods that give you information about Daylight Savings, hemispheres, seasons, leap-years and more.