Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderFun fact: Moment.js was at some point on this website at 3.7kb[1]. Of course that changed over its lifetime. [1]: https://github.com/microjs/microjs.com/pull/242/files
If anyone's interested in anedoctes from a library dev point of view, I've my framework listed there (it's called Mithril), and microjs is not a big source of traffic despite microjs being around for a while. Microjs displays popularity from the release repo, which in my case is low compared to the development repo ( https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js ), so even the little information that is displayed in the microjs site is not super useful for someone trying to figure out what…
It has now become a norm that everyone just drops in jQuery and bootstrap css for most of their projects while they might just be needing a DOM handler and a few utility functions. I have nothing against jQuery or Bootstrap. They are awesome to get things rolling but in most cases there is no necessity to load huge JS libraries with lots of utility functions which one might not be using. Not to leave aside the fact that a…
Most of the libraries are sampled are 5-10 years old, for the most part. Not sure if you just consider them "feature complete" or if thats a bad thing (mix of both?) but it does mean most are not written in ES Module syntax, which can bloat bundles potentially
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 709
- Total comments
- 139
100+ points or 50+ comments
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