Calendars 📆 , Planners, and Frameworks This week’s top 5 open-source projects (December 12th, 2023)

Hello friend 👋! The snow season is still over us ☃️ , but that will not stop me from bringing you some interesting open-source projects that I have found this past week!

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FullCalendar

You have a project you are working on, and now you need a fully working drag-and-drop calendar. A calendar like that can be a whole project in itself, so what do you do? FullCalendar is just what you are looking for. A full-size drag-and-drop calendar for events. The library is super customizable, so you can configure it however you would like.

Grommet

Let me show you a React framework you have probably not seen before. Grommet is a framework that helps you build responsive, accessible, and mobile-first web apps. Grommet is filled with great components, some you might have seen before like buttons and forms, but also ones you might not see as often, such as diagrams, world maps, and charts.

Cronicle

Cronicle is a fancy replacement for Cron that you can use to schedule tasks across multiple servers. It has a web UI that shows real-time stats and live logs for your jobs.

Some key things it offers are automated failover to backup servers, auto-discovery of nearby servers, plugins that can be written in any language, historical performance graphs, REST API for controlling jobs remotely, and handles both scheduled and on-demand jobs.

CodeceptJS

CodeceptJS is a successor to Codeception, the popular PHP testing framework. It is designed for acceptance testing web apps in an easy, readable format from a user perspective.

Some key things it offers are: based on Mocha and runs natively in Node & ES6; unified API for Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, etc; smart element location using names, text, CSS, XPath; interactive debugging shell to pause tests; generators for page objects and tests; works with TypeScript; has GPT features to assist failing tests.

Illa

Illa Cloud is a low-code platform that enables anyone to build customized business tools and integrate AI capabilities without coding.

Some key things it offers: drag-and-drop interface for fast tool creation; pre-built AI Agents for common tasks; connectors to data sources like databases; templates for tools like CMS, applicant tracking, etc; marketplace for sharing apps and agents; supports non-technical users through simplicity.