I'm baffled. A random list that links to a few most-starred node app got 50+ upvotes in 2 hours on HN and is currently No.1. First commit 3 days ago. I fail to see how it's awesome.
Anyone enlighten me?
That's basically how the whole javascript community works. There are tons of lists with random links (usually most-starred, yeah), which doesn't make a lot of sense, but they have tons of stars and attention.
Do they help people? Yeah, some of them definitely. Are they awesome and must have to get familiar with? Barely.
From my short experience working with other communities is very different, they are much more pragmatic and sceptical (worked with Go and Elixir a little bit).
There are many lists like that for everything I can think of, not just for Javascript.