Tis' the season of open-source ☃️

Holiday coding can be a blessed experience, and there's nothing better than building an awesome project in your time off.

I've gone through countless repos and found the 24 best libraries for your Christmas coding.

Web-Dev🌐:

1. CopilotTextarea👑 - AI-powered Writing in React Apps

A drop-in replacement for any react <textarea> with the features of Github CopilotX.

Autocompletes, insertions, edits.

Can be fed any context in real time or by the developer ahead of time.

Star CopilotTextarea⭐️

2.React Joyride - Create product walkthroughs

3.NextAuthJS - Easily set up authentications

4.Trigger.dev - Reliably run long jobs without timeouts

UI/UX 🦋:

5. Flowbite - Top Library of CSS Components

One of the best and most respected libraries of UI components.

Based on utility-first CSS framework.

Easy to work with, full of important supports and templates.

Star Flowbite ⭐️
 

6.MaterialUI - Foundational React components implemented with Google's Material Design

7. SwiperUI - Respected library for implementing mobile swipe UI

8.ReactSpring - implement animations in React with realistic physics

GenAI🤖:

9. CopilotPortal: Embed an actionable LLM chatbot inside your app.

A context-aware LLM chatbot inside your application that answers questions and takes actions.

Get a working chatBot with a few lines of code, then customize and embed as deeply as you need to.

Star CopilotPortal ⭐️

10.llamafile - Collapse complexities of working with LLMs to a single file

Mozilla-Ocho / llamafile

Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.

11. Pezzo.ai - Developer favorite LLM ops & observability

12.Tavily - Dev friendly autonomous GPT agent that Searches data & writes reports

Security/Privacy 🔐:

13. Wazuh - Unified Open-Source Security Platform

Unified open-source security platform for endpoints and cloud workloads.

Threat detection, prevention and response.

Protects on-premise, containerized and cloud environments.

Star Wazuh ⭐️

14.Zeek - Analyze network traffic in-depth

15. SuperTokens - Open source authentication provider

16.Sniffnet - Locally monitor your internet traffic

Mobile 📱:

17. Tamagui - Respected react native UI & optimization library

Tamagui is designed to rapidly style React applications.

It incorporates an optional UI kit and an optimizing compiler for performance enhancement.

Allows for seamless code sharing between web and native platforms, optimizing styled components for each environment.

Star Tamagui ⭐️

18.EarlGrey - iOS UI testing by Google

19. ReactNativeMaps - Highly customizable map component for apps

react-native-maps / react-native-maps

React Native Mapview component for iOS + Android

20.ReactNativePaper - Design library for iOS and Android

Other 🎅:

21. LangChain - Building Custom Action Chains with LLMs

A well-known library, but still included as it's one of my favorites and fun to build with.

Modular components that help you pull together LLMs into actions with integrations to many apps & APIs.

A powerful framework for building LLM agents.

Star LangChain ⭐️

22.ReactAgent - Experimental project. Turn prompts into working react components

23.Awesome for Beginers - Github listicle of beginner friendly projects

24.Appwrite - Powerful backend platform for web & mobile apps

And...that's it folks!

Hope you enjoy these libraries and that they help/inspire you to build something cool during the Holidays.

Don't forget to STAR🌟 the repos & support this article with reactions if you enjoyed it.

Merry Christmas! 🎅🏽☃️

[PS: this article has accompanying songs I generated with Suno.ai. They are hilarious, awesome, and also creepy. Tell me which one you like best:

1. Open-source Santa

2. Santa's Coder Christmas Magic]