R.I.P.
testing-workshop2016 — 2020
Cause of death
Day 4 of 100DaysOfCode
“Survived by 47 browser tabs.”
JavaScript★ 1.4k mourners
Digging up
Locating the cemetery…
Here lie the side projects of
kentcdodds
Almost nothing survives contact with this developer.
39
Buried
454
Survivors
17months
Avg lifespan
3,189
Mourners ★
39 gravesfirst fell Jan 2014
R.I.P.
ng-stats2014 — 2019
Cause of death
Life happened
“Never deployed. Always loved.”
JavaScript★ 648 mourners
R.I.P.
modern-react2018 — 2020
Cause of death
Scope creep
“Here lies great potential and a half-written README.”
JavaScript★ 209 mourners
R.I.P.
react-github-profile2016 — 2019
Cause of death
Laid to rest with full honors (archived)
“No tests. No regrets.”
JavaScript★ 198 mourners
R.I.P.
api-check2015 — 2018
Cause of death
Saw someone else ship it first
“Rest in /dev/null.”
JavaScript★ 188 mourners
R.I.P.
issue-template2014 — 2016
Cause of death
"I'll finish it this weekend"
“May its dependencies rest in peace.”
JavaScript★ 132 mourners
R.I.P.
glamorous-website2017 — 2018
Cause of death
Ran out of free tier
“It had so many plans in its issues tab.”
JavaScript★ 99 mourners
R.I.P.
rebase-and-merge2015 — 2020
Cause of death
Works on my machine. Machine died.
“Its last words: "wip"”
JavaScript★ 82 mourners
prettier-eslint-atom
2017 — 2020
Cause of death
Lost the .env file
“Survived by 47 browser tabs.”
JavaScript★ 63 mourners
R.I.P.
kcd-common-tools2015 — 2015
Cause of death
Got a job
“Pushed to main, then to the grave.”
JavaScript★ 36 mourners
R.I.P.
webpack-angular2015 — 2016
Cause of death
node_modules achieved sentience
“Here lies great potential and a half-written README.”
JavaScript★ 28 mourners
R.I.P.
clog-cli2015 — 2016
Cause of death
Put out to pasture with a nice README
“It compiled. That was enough.”
★ 27 mourners
random-user-coverage
2015 — 2015
Cause of death
Domain expired
“Its last words: "wip"”
JavaScript★ 26 mourners
R.I.P.
publish-latest2015 — 2016
Cause of death
Peacefully archived, surrounded by forks
“It worked on my machine.”
JavaScript★ 23 mourners
R.I.P.
loglevel-colored-level-prefix2017 — 2020
Cause of death
Started a rewrite instead
“Shipped to localhost only.”
JavaScript★ 14 mourners
configuration-validator
2016 — 2016
Cause of death
Spent more time configuring than coding
“Rest in /dev/null.”
JavaScript★ 10 mourners
R.I.P.
require-to-webpack-todomvc2015 — 2015
Cause of death
Too many todos. Zero dones.
“Shipped to localhost only.”
JavaScript★ 9 mourners
R.I.P.
kifs-app2020 — 2020
Cause of death
Forgot how it worked
“Here lies great potential and a half-written README.”
JavaScript★ 5 mourners
R.I.P.
InfiniteWPM2013 — 2015
Cause of death
The README was the best part
“Shipped to localhost only.”
JavaScript★ 5 mourners
spawn-command-with-kill
2016 — 2020
Cause of death
Read-only. Like a tomb.
“Beloved side project. Sometimes opened.”
JavaScript★ 4 mourners
R.I.P.
netlify-dynamic-require2020 — 2020
Cause of death
Weekend project. It was a long weekend.
“Gone, but never git rm'd.”
JavaScript★ 3 mourners
R.I.P.
spendmycents2020 — 2020
Cause of death
Died in infancy. Born and abandoned same day.
“Survived by 47 browser tabs.”
JavaScript★ 3 mourners
R.I.P.
js-point2013 — 2015
Cause of death
Couldn't center the div
“Gone, but never git rm'd.”
HTML★ 3 mourners
R.I.P.
genies-lamp2014 — 2014
Cause of death
Framework went out of style mid-build
“Taken from us by a better idea.”
JavaScript★ 3 mourners