So what are the other most popular JS projects on GitHub?

Jul 8, 2015 14:33 GMT  ·  By

A recent GitHub project started a monumental task, and that's to provide an all-time ranking of the most popular JavaScript projects on GitHub.

The project, known as STATS.JS.ORG, fetches statistical details (stars and forks) for the most popular JavaScript projects on GitHub, "and stuffs them in a giant table with 10k rows."

This data is regularly retrieved three times per day, and the information is then neatly displayed in the project's public page for anyone to view.

By default, at page load, the all-time top 100 is shown, but navigational controls exist to skip to different pages, along with filters for checking the most popular projects for the past day, week, and month.

This latter feature can be used by us, news editors, to detect popular, upcoming projects, or by developers to identify new technologies and projects other developers may be working on.

AngularJS is the most popular JavaScript project on GitHub

Currently, Google's AngularJS is leading the ranking, which is of no surprise to us since many developers view it as the best MVC framework for JavaScript currently on the market.

Angular is followed by D3.js, Node.js, jQuery, and the HTML5 Boilerplate, all very popular projects, widely known and used for many of today's Web tools, apps, and websites.

Adobe's Brackets IDE (#10), Meteor (#12), Facebook's React framework (#13), Express (#16), GitHub's Atom IDE (#21), the Ghost blogging platform (#22), and Ionic (#23) also made the Top 25.

The weirdest entry is AirBnB's JavaScript styling guide (#15), a mere set of instructions for AirBnB's development team, on how to code JS applications inside the company's own tools.

Important projects ranked outside the Top 100 include Babel (#137), an ES6 to ES5 transpiler widely used in many JS applications today, Stylus (#158), Microsoft's TypeScript (#178), Webpack (#203), and NodeBB (#225).

Here's the top 25, as immortalized today:

The all-time, most popular JS projects on GitHub
The all-time, most popular JS projects on GitHub