JavaScript isn’t just about frameworks anymore. While React, Vue and Svelte dominate headlines, the ecosystem quietly teems with small, sharp tools solving very specific problems — often better than the monoliths. These libraries may not trend on X or show up in your corporate tech radar, but they can dramatically improve your productivity, code quality and sanity.
This isn’t your usual list of half-forgotten npm packages. These are thoughtfully crafted libraries that do one thing extremely well, and you’ll wish you had found them…