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Reactime is a Chrome extension created to help developers optimize and debug their React applications. Reactime remedies the increasingly difficult pain point of managing state by making the development environment more accessible and comfortable.

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OverVue is a prototyping tool that allows developers to dynamically create and visualize a Vue application, implementing a real-time intuitive tree display of component hierarchy and a live-generated code preview. This provides experienced Vue developers with a tool that facilitates seamless prototyping and architecting their applications, and allows new developers to onboard a Vue application quickly and efficiently.

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ReacType is a rapid prototyping tool that allows users to visualize their application architecture dynamically, with a drag-and-drop canvas display and an interactive, real-time component code preview that can be exported as a React app. The beauty of ReacType is that you can use it in parallel with create-react-app or other boilerplate code generators. Instead of exporting an entire application from ReacType, you can simply export your components into an existing project.

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Using Spearmint, developers can easily generate React/Redux/Hooks/Context/Endpoint tests by using our user-friendly GUI. It dynamically converts user inputs into executable Jest test code by using DOM query selectors provided by the Testing Library. From its inception, Spearmint has sought to provide a simpler way to write tests for React Applications. Our user-friendly GUI allows developers to dynamically generate test files that can be directly exported into a project directory without writing a single line of code!

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If you’ve deployed a software application, monitoring is necessary for gaining insight into its usage and to prevent/diagnose failures. The growing trend towards microservice architecture and gRPC means there is a need for monitoring tools that support these technologies. Popular solutions either require haphazardly combining multiple open-source tools or paying for expensive monitoring software. Chronos bridges this gap, as an open-source tool for Node.js that can be used to instrument, collect, and visualize monitoring data.

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Docketeer provides a simple interface to manage Docker resources & visualize both host and container metric data. As a containerized application, it can be deployed alongside your application cluster with hardly any effort. Docketeer’s goal is to be a centralized management system where Docker command functionality, library viewing, and container health monitoring are all found in one place, overall simplifying and enhancing the process of the users container management environment.

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Swell is a cross-platform desktop app that is meant to be used alongside a developer’s existing environment to test your API. The market leaders in this space (Postman and Insomnia) have outgrown their origins as lightweight testing suites, and are also missing several important modern technologies. Swell picks up on their shortcomings and gives engineers a one-stop shop to quickly and easily test their REST / GraphQL / gRPC endpoints, with additional support for Streams (including SSEs), Web Sockets and GraphQL Subscriptions.

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Svelte is a well-loved and relatively new frontend framework/compiler that has been growing in popularity for the last few years within the developer community. However, unlike other industry frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular, Svelte does not yet have a comparable robust library ecosystem. Enter Svelvet: a lightweight Svelte component library for building interactive node-based flow diagrams. Svelvet is designed to be easy to use, intuitive and highly customizable. Other libraries that offer diagramming and visualization come with caveats: they are not free, flowchart-based, customizable, and/or intuitive. Svelvet fills this need!

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vno is a Command Line Interface that simplifies the use of Vue with a Deno runtime environment. As Paul Krill, editor at large of InfoWorld, says “with vno, a developer can employ the “elegance” of Vue while leveraging the “simplicity and security” of Deno”.

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GraphQL is highly flexible, which makes it an amazing tool, but results in query responses being difficult to cache. That's where Quell comes in - with its minimally opinionated highly generalized front- and backend GraphQL caching libraries that can be used separately or together, make GraphQL’s flexibility more efficient.

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Obsidian utilizes normalized caching strategies to store response data in both a client and server-side cache. Obsidian is Deno’s first native GraphQL caching client and server module. It utilizes normalized caching strategies to store response data in both a client and server-side cache. Obsidian supports mutations and implements a write through caching policy to maintain that the cache and database are in sync.

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Chromogen is a UI-Focused Test Generation Library for Recoil and Zustand-based Applications. It allows any developer to generate meaningful unit tests for their frontend in minutes, just by interacting in the way a user normally would. Writing test suites is a major pain point for developers trying to validate their application’s reliability and functionality. Chromogen was inspired to tackle this issue by automating this process, aimed at saving both time and energy to reduce business costs and resources.

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We ended up making a product that the Deno community got excited about. We had external pull requests just days after we’d built it – people were using it and getting value out of it, and suggesting ways to improve it. It was a buzz that I’d never experienced before. I think my interviewers were very interested to hear about vno. It gave me a subject that I understood which they didn’t, and that felt like a huge selling point in the interview. That gave me a credibility that I previously didn’t have, outside of theater anyway!

Building something from the ground up, encountering incredibly tough technical challenges, and getting the opportunity to work with such amazing and talented people has been so powerful and contributed so much to my growth as a software engineer. The thing that surprised me the most was actually being able to break through the technical blocks with my team and learning and building with new technologies and libraries after only researching them for a few hours.

I loved OSP. I bonded closely with my group and I'm so proud of the product we made and everything we learned in the process. I really can't believe I'm able to create something on that scale - and I can't believe that I was one of the people who had strong opinions about how we did it! It was awesome.

Learning how to learn, learning how to teach, and learning what it means to actually work with people in the process of building something – lots of folks don’t think about that as a software engineer. Yes, you have to solve problems, but most of them involve working with people and cooperating – to identify that problem and work out the solution.