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Ask HN: What libraries are a joy to work with?

5 points by rs86 ↗ HN
I am refactoring an obscure library to make it a developer friendly SDK. What libraries do you love to work with? I want to look at what developers like and get lessons from those examples.

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kat
Bootstrap! http://bootstrapdocs.com/ Their documentation is great. They have useful code examples that are simple enough to copy+paste into your own code, but are complex enough to show off the entire feature.
andrei_says_
Vue.js and the Vue ecosystem

axios

Sequel (the ruby orm)

[dead] andrei_says_
Vue.js and its ecosystem axios Sequel (the ruby orm)
barhaim
React :D
swah
On one hand I like that most stuff works well, but when I dive into the libraries, its so many layers, so many small files, that it makes everything feel fragile.
madamelic
I really like Stripe's Node API, it is a pretty class act all around. Their documentation is top-notch.

(Also they have lurkers in HN so if you complain, you get someone from Stripe offering help. :))

bradcomp
I'm using Clap[0] for a command line project I'm doing in Rust. The API for it is fantastic, and the examples are very well commented. Overall it's the best library I've run across in a while.

[0]: https://github.com/kbknapp/clap-rs