JavaScript
How vibe coders and indie builders use JavaScript: 635 projects built with it and 4 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
635
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
4.4%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-3%
Add-ons built for it
4
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- HTML 213
- CSS 194
- Python 86
- GitHub Pages 68
- Cloudflare 57
- Claude (chat or unspecified) 55
- Node.js 51
- Vercel 50
What's built with it
Latest projects built with JavaScript
- Headwind — Imports cycling ride files and Strava exports into a self-hosted archive with ride history, performance trends, segments and health data.“Title: I wanted somewhere to keep my cycling history. It got slightly out of hand.”
- GenoCanvas — Draws genograms, family trees with clinical relationship notation, locally in the browser and exports them to PDF, PNG, SVG or print.“I'm a psychotherapist and I built a genogram / family tree maker - which is prviacy first and stays locally on the users computer!”
- CyberGuard AI — Flags phishing emails and suspicious URLs in real time by combining email text, sender and domain signals, embedded links and security headers.“CyberGuard AI: Context-aware phishing detection using email, URL, sender and security signals”
- ToolDesk — Provides 41 browser-based file and utility tools, such as PDF editing, image compression and conversion, invoice generation, and QR codes, that process files locally without uploading them.“I built 41 browser tools that never upload your files (PDF editor, image compressor, invoice maker). Two months in: 5 clicks from Google. What am I doing wrong?”
- How2NewYork Block Report — Generates a one-page report for any NYC address from city open data on complaints, crime, restaurant inspections, street trees and nearby subway status.“Check your NYC block: an address report card built only from city open data”
- CyberEscudo — Hosts browser-based cybersecurity tools, hands-on labs, a simulated SOC incident investigation and free certificate exams.“I built a free cybersecurity site: 66 browser-based tools, a playable SOC shift and free certificates. What's missing?”
- FormatFlash — Converts image files between HEIC, JPG, PNG and WebP entirely in the browser.“I built a free HEIC to JPG converter that runs 100% in your browser — no uploads, no signups, no server”
- Discord Customizer — Restyles the Discord web app in Chrome or Edge with themes, wallpapers, fonts, layout tweaks and custom CSS.“Discord-customizer-v1.2 Available In GitHub /notgamermx”
- Fuel — Combines food logging, workout logging and progress tracking in one web app, with AI photo-based meal estimates.“I built a nutrition and training tracker because I was tired of using three apps. Looking for testers”
- AURA Global Tools — Provides a collection of 300+ free online calculators and utilities covering Islamic, finance, and health topics, with no sign-up required.“Do whatever you want to do, I won't tell you not to do this or that.”
- finotti-pi-optimized — Counts primes up to a given number using the Meissel-Lehmer method, running in the browser.“Built pi(10^11) prime counter in 2m16s running purely in mobile browser - pure JS, no backend, built entirely on my phone”
- finotti-pi-optimized — Counts prime numbers up to a given limit using a segmented sieve in JavaScript that runs in the phone browser.“I built a prime counter that calculates pi(10^11) in 2 min on my phone browser”
- Kronos — Lets visitors experience a stranger's short memory line by line in the dark, then submit their own memory to be read by the next person.“I made a site where you live a stranger's memory one line at a time, then leave your own”
- Rhyven Marketplace — Provides installable headless apps that AI agents discover and call through a unified MCP interface, with state kept between sessions.“Rhyven Marketplace”
- Snus Ranking — Ranks snus and nicotine pouches using a separate expert test score and community score, with community ratings and a side-by-side compare view.“I built an independent snus & nicotine pouch ranking in plain PHP – no framework, no build step”
Latest add-ons built for JavaScript
- CODYGIENE — Runs local static analysis on JavaScript and TypeScript projects to flag security, performance, code health, AI-quality and architecture issues.“I built a local-first code quality CLI and ran it on a real open-source SaaS”
- JojoScript — Compiles JavaScript-compatible pipelines into an execution plan that can run lazily, concurrently, with retries, checkpoints, and resumption.“I’m experimenting with executable, resumable functional pipelines in JavaScript”
- Dweav Trace — Records JavaScript app state snapshots in a Chrome side panel timeline with structural diffs, plus a set of developer utilities.“I published Dweav Trace, a privacy-first Chrome extension for tracing JavaScript state”
- Game Trace — Collects in-game player events and shows funnels, retention, and session analytics in a dashboard.“I made a simple analytics tool for indie games because every other one was too expensive or too complicated”
Pitched as alternatives to JavaScript
- SafeScript — Compiles a restricted, Turing-incomplete JavaScript subset into a static DAG and computes its host, secret, and data-flow signature before execution.“SafeScript - a Turing-incomplete subset of JavaScript you can prove safe before running”