A list of GitHub projects that were starred by multiple top JavaScript developers in the past 6 months. Read more about
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react-adaptive-hooks

Description: Deliver experiences best suited to a user's device and network constraints

Repo URL: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/react-adaptive-hooks

Repo Owner: GoogleChromeLabs

GitHub Stars: 3,920

rome

Description: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

Repo URL: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome

Repo Owner: facebookexperimental

GitHub Stars: 3,246

1on1-questions

Description: Mega list of 1 on 1 meeting questions compiled from a variety to sources

Repo URL: https://github.com/VGraupera/1on1-questions

Repo Owner: VGraupera

GitHub Stars: 6,518

vanillawebprojects

Description: Mini projects built with HTML5, CSS & JavaScript. No frameworks or libraries

Repo URL: https://github.com/bradtraversy/vanillawebprojects

Repo Owner: bradtraversy

GitHub Stars: 3,820

playwright

Description: Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API

Repo URL: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright

Repo Owner: microsoft

GitHub Stars: 9,935

react-helmet

Description: A document head manager for React

Repo URL: https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet

Repo Owner: nfl

GitHub Stars: 12,604

linaria

Description: Zero-runtime CSS in JS library

Repo URL: https://github.com/callstack/linaria

Repo Owner: callstack

GitHub Stars: 4,940

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How the list was built

The projects below were starred by multiple experienced, influential developers, which I compiled from Googling
"JavaScript developers to follow" and looking at who I currently follow on Twitter. Their GitHub usernames are addyosmani, paulirish, thefoxis, umaar, elijahmanor, jeresig, dshaw, kentcdodds, johnpapa, darkwing, sachag, wesbos, getify, markdalgleish, chriscoyier, mdo, ry, yyx990803, Rich-Harris, sdras, emmabostian, markerikson, btholt, benlesh.

For each developer, I used GitHub's starring api to fetch their recently starred repos, limited the scope to the past 6 months, filtered out non JavaScript/TypeScript repos, then counted total stars form the user list for each repo and found the projects with multiple stars.

Here's a gist with some messy code that does it.
https://gist.github.com/ryanjyost/3e04237e11156c0784a7f101b4efc144#file-getstars-js