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Recently Buried
Famous Casualties
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atom/atom
GitHub built VS Code and forgot this existed
Dec 2022
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angular/angular.js
Angular 2 murdered its own parent in cold blood
Jan 2022
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adobe/brackets
Adobe discovered VS Code already existed
Sep 2021
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apache/cordova
React Native showed up and everyone switched mid-project
Aug 2020
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gulpjs/gulp
Webpack arrived. Then Vite. Poor Gulp.
Dec 2019
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meteor/meteor
Promised full-stack bliss. Delivered full-stack confusion.
Jun 2018
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ariya/phantomjs
Chrome went headless. This went nowhere.
Mar 2018
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bower/bower
npm install happened and nobody looked back
Jan 2017
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facebookarchive/flux
Redux arrived uninvited and never left
Oct 2016
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gruntjs/grunt
Gulped by Gulp, then Webpacked into the grave
Feb 2016
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mootools/mootools-core
jQuery killed it softly. Then jQuery died too.
Jan 2016
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ftlabs/fastclick
The 300ms delay got fixed. So did this.
Nov 2015
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jashkenas/coffeescript
ES6 stole all its ideas and left
Sep 2015
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knockout/knockout
Vue arrived and everyone forgot their vows
Oct 2015
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postcss/autoprefixer
Browsers finally agreed on things. Took them long enough.
Jan 2023
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nodejs/node-v0.x-archive
io.js forked it, then everyone made up and pretended nothing happened
May 2015
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twbs/ratchet
Nobody actually built apps with Bootstrap anyway
Mar 2016
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mattdesl/budo
Webpack devServer ate the entire category
Feb 2018
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strongloop/loopback
Express stayed simple. This did not.
Jun 2019
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YahooArchive/mojito
Yahoo slowly forgot it existed, then forgot everything else
Dec 2014
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dojo/dojo
jQuery won the 2008 framework wars. Dojo was not informed.
Dec 2021
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Polymer/polymer
Web Components were supposed to be the future. They were not.
Apr 2021
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tencent/wepy
WeChat's own framework killed its own ecosystem
Nov 2019
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marionettejs/backbone.marionette
Backbone died. So did everything built on Backbone.
Mar 2020
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request/request
fetch() shipped natively and deprecated an entire generation
Feb 2020
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nicolo-ribaudo/jest-light-runner
Vitest arrived and made everyone feel bad about Jest
Jan 2023
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atom/atom
GitHub built VS Code and forgot this existed
Dec 2022
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angular/angular.js
Angular 2 murdered its own parent in cold blood
Jan 2022
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adobe/brackets
Adobe discovered VS Code already existed
Sep 2021
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apache/cordova
React Native showed up and everyone switched mid-project
Aug 2020
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gulpjs/gulp
Webpack arrived. Then Vite. Poor Gulp.
Dec 2019
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meteor/meteor
Promised full-stack bliss. Delivered full-stack confusion.
Jun 2018
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ariya/phantomjs
Chrome went headless. This went nowhere.
Mar 2018
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bower/bower
npm install happened and nobody looked back
Jan 2017
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facebookarchive/flux
Redux arrived uninvited and never left
Oct 2016
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gruntjs/grunt
Gulped by Gulp, then Webpacked into the grave
Feb 2016
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mootools/mootools-core
jQuery killed it softly. Then jQuery died too.
Jan 2016
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ftlabs/fastclick
The 300ms delay got fixed. So did this.
Nov 2015
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jashkenas/coffeescript
ES6 stole all its ideas and left
Sep 2015
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knockout/knockout
Vue arrived and everyone forgot their vows
Oct 2015
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postcss/autoprefixer
Browsers finally agreed on things. Took them long enough.
Jan 2023
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nodejs/node-v0.x-archive
io.js forked it, then everyone made up and pretended nothing happened
May 2015
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twbs/ratchet
Nobody actually built apps with Bootstrap anyway
Mar 2016
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mattdesl/budo
Webpack devServer ate the entire category
Feb 2018
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strongloop/loopback
Express stayed simple. This did not.
Jun 2019
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YahooArchive/mojito
Yahoo slowly forgot it existed, then forgot everything else
Dec 2014
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dojo/dojo
jQuery won the 2008 framework wars. Dojo was not informed.
Dec 2021
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Polymer/polymer
Web Components were supposed to be the future. They were not.
Apr 2021
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tencent/wepy
WeChat's own framework killed its own ecosystem
Nov 2019
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marionettejs/backbone.marionette
Backbone died. So did everything built on Backbone.
Mar 2020
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request/request
fetch() shipped natively and deprecated an entire generation
Feb 2020
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nicolo-ribaudo/jest-light-runner
Vitest arrived and made everyone feel bad about Jest
Jan 2023