Awesome Hackbright

A list of libraries, tools, and other resources that Hackbrighters have used in their projects.

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Contents

• Python
  • Web
  • Database
  • Clients & API Wrappers
  • Utilities
  • Machine Learning
• JavaScript
  • Utilities
  • Frontend Frameworks
  • Animations & Interactivity
• Tools & Software
  • Text Editors
  • Command Line
  • Terminals
• Resources
  • Educational
  • Awesome Lists

🐍 Python

Web

• Flask — A web microframework
  • Jinja — Flask's templating engine
  • Flask-DebugToolbar — A port of Django's debug toolbar for Flask

Database

• SQLAlchemy — Vendor-agnostic database toolkit
• GeoAlchemy— Adds extensions to SQLAlchemy to work with spatial databases
• PostGIS — A spatial database extender for PostgreSQL

Clients & API Wrappers

• Google Maps Python Client — Python client library for Google Maps API Web Services
• Twilio — Twilio Python Helper Library
• Eventbrite API — REST-based API

Utilities

• requests — HTTP requests
• Faker — Generate fake data
• JSON Parser — Parse JSON data in any of a number of languages

Machine Learning

• scikit-learn — A free software machine learning library for the Python programming language

Graphs

• osmnx — retrieve, model, analyze, and visualize street networks from OpenStreetMap.

✨ JavaScript

Utilities

• jQuery — JS Library for DOM manipulation & AJAX
• lodash — Handy utilities to augment JS
• moment — Datetime formatting/parsing
• schedule — Python library for scheduling functions/jobs periodically

Frontend Frameworks

• React — Framework for interactive UIs
  • PrimeReact — UI components. Includes charts and other data visualiztion components!
  • Airbnb's Date Components — Airbnb's date picker

Animations & Interactivity

• ScrollMagic — Scroll animations/interactions
• SVG.js — SVG manipulation

Data Visualization

• d3 — JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data -Chart.js — Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers

🍴 Tools & Software

Text Editors

• Sublime Text
  • Babel — Syntax definitions for JSX and modern JS
• Brackets — Text editor aimed toward web design
• Neovim — Vim, but it uses Python as its scripting language
• Visual Studio Code — code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications
• Atom — A free and open-source text and source code editor

Command Line

• jrnl — Write journal entries from your command line
• httpie — Like curl or wget, but better and more colorful
• peco — Interactive filtering/searching
• the silver searcher — Like grep or ack but faster/more performant
• z — Shortcuts for fast and easy cd-ing

Terminals

• hyper.js — A JS-based terminal emulator
• kitty — Fast, GPU-based terminal emulator

Deployment

• AWS Lightsail — A web deployment service

🍎 Resources

Educational

• Idiomatic Python 3
• Javascript to Jquery Dictionary
• Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python

Awesome Lists

• Awesome Python