Top 9 JavaScript help-wanted Projects

ChakraCore

15 9,042 7.3 JavaScript

ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.

Project mention: This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-18

I thought it would be a fun weird project to make Servo work with MS' abandoned JavaScript engine:
https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore
Of course it is written in C++ and you'd probably want a pure Rust browser. But it is sad seeing that fairly complete open source JIT JavaScript engine sit and rot.

up-for-grabs.net

68 5,217 9.6 JavaScript

This is a list of projects which have curated tasks specifically for new contributors. These issues are a great way to get started with a project, or to help share the load of working on open source projects. Jump in!

Project mention: Merge Mastery: Elevating Your Pull Request Game in Open Source Projects | dev.to | 2024-02-15

Up-for-Grabs projects: Find issues specifically marked for beginner contributions.

SurveyJS

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Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
BeforeIDieAchievements

7 110 9.5 JavaScript

🌟An open source project that helps developers make their first pull request and contribute to open source projects. 🚀🎯 Developers can contribute by sharing what they want to do before they die. 💡🔗

Project mention: Placeholder Contributor | dev.to | 2023-11-10

overlapping cards and header refactor #220

Dalaix

7 64 4.1 JavaScript

Easy installer for Dalai: LLaMA on your local machine

Project mention: Moved to Nuxt.js | /r/Nuxt | 2023-06-03

Quotes-Generator

2 46 5.2 JavaScript

website for generating random quotes
biketag-website

7 32 0.0 JavaScript

A website for biketag.org
ReturnYoutubeSort

3 19 7.4 JavaScript

Returns YouTube Sort By: Oldest
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Slash

1 6 4.7 JavaScript

Open source discord bot which gives Text2Image, Minecraft Server Status. Live ICC Cricket Score, CS:GO Stats, Movie/Series information and more. You can also contribute to this bot by adding a feature to make your first contribution to the open source world. (by EliusHHimel)
tools

1 3 3.4 JavaScript

Tools and frameworks related to development, List out the tools you know and use the ones from the list you don't know to make software better (by akash-santhosh)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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