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

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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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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

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.

Hey, thanks for the example

Command Line Parser Library for .Net/.Net Core. This made setting up quick CLI apps pretty brainless for me.

https://github.com/gsscoder/commandline

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. :))

Django Rest Framework http://www.django-rest-framework.org/. Makes writing APIs in Python quick and painless.

Vue.js and the Vue ecosystem

axios

Sequel (the ruby orm)

Systems.Collections.Immutable

In Scala, you mean?

I haven't learned Scala yet. I'm referring to a .NET library (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections....).

React :D

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.

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