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dexteryy/spellbook-of-modern-webdev
A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development
A giant hand-organized taxonomy of links covering the modern JS web platform — HTML/CSS/JS APIs, Node, tooling, cloud services — originally written as an onboarding doc for a team and expanded into a public reference. It's for developers who want a single map of 'what exists' in the JS ecosystem rather than a tutorial or a library.
The hierarchy is genuinely deep and deliberate — each line is one category, with '/' meaning alternatives and ',' meaning complementary tools, so it reads like a skill tree instead of a flat awesome-list dump. The curation philosophy is stated up front and followed: one or a few links per problem domain, weighted by npm download stats over GitHub stars, which avoids the usual awesome-list sprawl. Breadth is real — rendering performance, service workers, CSS-in-JS, WebRTC, cloud services both global and China-specific — few single docs cover that range coherently.
Last pushed December 2023 with no sign of ongoing maintenance, and in a space that moves as fast as JS tooling, a chunk of these 2000+ links are already stale or pointing at tools nobody uses anymore (Webpack-vs-Rollup framing, early Web Components primers, pre-Vite build tooling). There's nothing executable here — no code, no scripts beyond a single tools/bookmarks.js — so the only value is as a bookmark list, and link rot is unmonitored at this scale. It's also more React/Node-centric than the 'complete view' framing suggests, which the author openly defends in a linked FAQ rather than correcting.