List of Javascript libraries

My picks of promising/useful Javascript libraries from random blogs.

Basically this is my personal version of jswiki.

Browser

Notifications/lighboxes

• http://needim.github.com/noty/
• Tooltips http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/tipsy/
• Favicon hacks https://github.com/tommoor/tinycon
• Favicon progress bar http://lipka.github.com/piecon/

Date pickers

• https://github.com/ChiperSoft/Kalendae
• http://kylestetz.github.io/CLNDR/
• http://amsul.ca/pickadate.js/

Slides

• http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/
• http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js/
• https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/

Input fields

• @mentions http://daniel-zahariev.github.com/jquery-textntags/
• Tags https://github.com/jstayton/jquery-manifest
• Large selections http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
• Large selections http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/
• Filtering http://luis-almeida.github.com/filtrify/

Lists / tables

• http://listjs.com/
• http://github.hubspot.com/sortable/

Loading animations

• http://fgnass.github.com/spin.js/
• http://tobiasahlin.com/spinkit/

Graphs

• https://github.com/ecomfe/echarts https://ecomfe.github.io/echarts/index-en.html
• http://oesmith.github.com/morris.js/
• http://code.google.com/p/flot/
• http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/
• Networks http://sigmajs.org/
• Linechart http://dejavis.org/linechart
• http://g.raphaeljs.com/
• http://www.chartjs.org/
• https://github.com/gionkunz/chartist-js
• diagramming http://www.jointjs.com/ https://github.com/DavidDurman/joint
• http://dygraphs.com/ for huge data sets

d3

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

• http://nvd3.org/
• http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/
• http://visible.io/
• http://c3js.org/
• https://square.github.io/cubism/
• http://misoproject.com/d3-chart/
• http://dimplejs.org/
• https://github.com/NathanEpstein/D3xter
• timeseries http://metricsgraphicsjs.org/ https://github.com/mozilla/metrics-graphics

i18n

• http://www.zomeoff.com/jsin/
• http://slexaxton.github.com/Jed/

Backbone

• https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette
• https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager
• Pagination https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone.paginator
• Params to routes https://github.com/rtsinani/colonne
• https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-aura
• https://github.com/perka/backbone-ui

Touch

• https://github.com/borismus/pointer.js
• http://eightmedia.github.com/hammer.js/
• http://mwbrooks.github.com/thumbs.js/
• https://github.com/cheeaun/tappable
• https://github.com/alexgibson/tap.js
• https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick

IndexDB

• https://github.com/jensarps/IDBWrapper
• node-redis api http://gazeljs.org/
• CouchDB http://arandomurl.com/2012/03/27/pouchdb-is-couchdb-in-the-browser.html
• http://westcoastlogic.com/lawnchair/
• https://github.com/axemclion/IndexedDBShim
• http://webreflection.blogspot.fi/2012/06/asynchronous-storage-for-all-browsers.html
• https://github.com/Fluidbyte/Riggr/blob/master/src/indexed.js

syntax highlighting

• http://craig.is/making/rainbows

Visibility

• Element/tab visibility https://github.com/ai/visibility.js

WYSIWYG

• https://github.com/xing/wysihtml5
• http://quilljs.com/
  • ot support?
• https://github.com/neilj/squire http://neilj.github.io/Squire/
• https://github.com/Voog/wysihtml/ http://wysihtml.com/

Markdown editors

• http://oscargodson.github.com/EpicEditor/
• https://github.com/lepture/editor

Tooltips

• http://tooltipsy.com/
• http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/tipsy/

ES5 shims

• http://augmentjs.com/
• https://github.com/kriskowal/es5-shim

databinding / models

• https://github.com/classdojo/bindable.js
• https://github.com/gwendall/way.js

Sliders

• http://lokku.github.io/jquery-nstslider/
• https://github.com/leongersen/noUiSlider

Form validation

• https://github.com/ryanseddon/H5F
• http://afarkas.github.io/webshim/demos/#Forms

Others

• Cookies https://github.com/ainformatico/jecookie
• Excel http://warpech.github.com/jquery-handsontable
• DOM element generation http://joestelmach.github.com/laconic/
• Table of contents http://gregfranko.com/jquery.tocify.js/
• Keyboard https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster
• offline detection http://nouincolor.com/heyoffline.js/
• Search http://lunrjs.com/
• Select dropdown
  • http://brandwatchltd.github.io/selleckt/demo/
• json pretty html format http://marianoguerra.github.io/json.human.js/
• css injecting https://github.com/israelidanny/veinjs
• progress bars http://nanobar.micronube.com/
• Generate froms from json https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor

React

Forms

• http://prometheusresearch.github.io/react-forms

Widgets sets

• Bootstrap http://react-bootstrap.github.io/
• http://jquense.github.io/react-widgets/docs/# (Has date picker!)
• http://khan.github.io/react-components/

Select widget

• Select widget http://jedwatson.github.io/react-select/

Tables

• https://github.com/dynamictyped/Griddle/ https://dynamictyped.github.io/Griddle/
• https://github.com/glittershark/reactable http://glittershark.github.io/reactable/

Datetime pickers

• http://jslog.com/react-date-picker/
• https://github.com/react-component/calendar

data

• https://github.com/dustingetz/react-cursor/
• https://github.com/mquan/cortex/
• https://github.com/Yomguithereal/baobab

d3

• https://github.com/esbullington/react-d3

Flux

• https://github.com/facebook/flux
• https://github.com/spoike/refluxjs
• https://github.com/BinaryMuse/fluxxor http://fluxxor.com/
• https://github.com/deloreanjs/delorean http://deloreanjs.com/
• https://github.com/kenwheeler/mcfly http://kenwheeler.github.io/mcfly/
• https://github.com/foss-haas/fynx http://foss-haas.github.io/fynx/
• https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/barracks
• https://github.com/jmreidy/fluxy
• https://github.com/dfrnswrth/miniflux
• http://martyjs.org/ https://github.com/jhollingworth/marty
• https://github.com/kjda/ReactFlux
• https://github.com/yahoo/fluxible
• http://www.tuxedojs.org/ (full framework)
• https://github.com/goatslacker/alt
  • https://github.com/goatslacker/iso
• https://github.com/appsforartists/ambidex isomorphic using Reflux?
• https://github.com/acdlite/flummox
• https://github.com/elierotenberg/react-nexu
• https://github.com/addthis/fluxthis https://fluxthis.io/#/
• https://github.com/LeanKit-Labs/lux.js
• https://github.com/vigetlabs/microcosm
• https://github.com/rpominov/fluce
• https://github.com/threepointone/disto
• https://github.com/goatslacker/microflux
• https://github.com/glenjamin/fluctuations
• https://github.com/optimizely/nuclear-js
• https://github.com/gaearon/redux

HTML5 on desktop

• https://github.com/breach/thrust/
• https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
• https://github.com/atom/atom-shell

Generic

• Functional tools
  • https://github.com/tjmehta/101 (modular!)
  • https://github.com/nullobject/fkit
  • http://ramda.github.io/ramdocs/docs/
  • http://danieltao.com/lazy.js/
• Ajax / node.js http https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios
• Colors
  • https://github.com/eligrey/color.js
  • https://github.com/One-com/one-color
  • https://github.com/gka/chroma.js
  • Generate nice colors http://www.checkman.io/please/
• Date/time
  • http://momentjs.com/
  • http://arshaw.com/xdate/
• URI parsing
  • http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/parseuri
  • https://github.com/medialize/URI.js
• Testing
  • https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha
  • Assert http://chaijs.com/
  • http://chaijs.com/plugins
  • Mocks http://sinonjs.org/
• Markdown https://github.com/chjj/marked
• Binary https://github.com/Benvie/reified
• Async flow
  • https://github.com/caolan/async
  • http://cho45.stfuawsc.com/jsdeferred/
  • http://documentup.com/kriskowal/q/
  • https://github.com/creationix/safereturn
• Doc generator https://github.com/cbou/markdox
• Schemas/validation
  • https://github.com/molnarg/js-schema
  • https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb-validation
• Pattern matching https://github.com/natefaubion/matches.js
• uuid https://github.com/broofa/node-uuid
• Promises
  • https://github.com/tildeio/rsvp.js
  • https://github.com/cujojs/when
  • https://github.com/kriskowal/q
  • https://github.com/medikoo/deferred (claim to be fast)
  • https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird (also fast)
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494622
  • https://github.com/Obvious/kew (another one claiming to be fast)
  • https://github.com/wookiehangover/underscore.Deferred
  • https://github.com/then/promise
• Caching
  • https://github.com/medikoo/memoize
• html in javascript "templates"
  • https://github.com/dominictarr/hyperscript
• Human readable file sizes http://filesizejs.com/
• string diff https://github.com/kpdecker/jsdiff
• number formatting http://numeraljs.com/
• Mongo query filters in js https://github.com/kofrasa/mingo
• On the wire patches for Immutablejs https://github.com/elierotenberg/remutable

Node.JS

• require() aware reload https://github.com/fgnass/node-dev
  • https://github.com/dai-shi/easy-livereload
• Avoiding ../../../ https://gist.github.com/branneman/8048520
• Shell scripting help https://github.com/polotek/procstreams
• Shell automation https://github.com/jprichardson/node-suppose
• Portable Unix shell commands https://github.com/arturadib/shelljs
• i18n http://jamuhl.github.com/i18next-node/
• rm -fr https://github.com/isaacs/rimraf
• mkdir -p https://github.com/substack/node-mkdirp
• tempfiles https://github.com/bruce/node-temp
• Command options
  • https://github.com/visionmedia/commander.js
  • https://github.com/substack/node-optimist
• Ascii progress bars https://github.com/substack/node-multimeter
• Posix https://github.com/melor/node-posix
• Shell colors https://github.com/Marak/colors.js
• MIME type mapping https://github.com/bentomas/node-mime
• Git
  • http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creationix/js-git
  • ruby-git port https://github.com/christkv/node-git
  • git-fs https://github.com/creationix/node-git
  • libgit2 bindings https://github.com/tbranyen/nodegit
  • other libgit2 bindings https://github.com/libgit2/node-gitteh
• File uploads
  • https://github.com/felixge/node-formidable
  • https://github.com/mscdex/busboy
  • https://github.com/mscdex/dicer
• pseudo terminals https://github.com/chjj/pty.js/
• Static site generators
  • https://github.com/jnordberg/wintersmith
  • https://github.com/bevry/docpad
• Daemon
  • https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever
  • Used by forever https://github.com/indexzero/daemon.node
• Cluster
  • Volatile store https://github.com/fent/clusterhub
• Unix udp https://github.com/bnoordhuis/node-unix-dgram
• Logging
  • https://github.com/indexzero/winston-syslog/blob/master/lib/winston-syslog.js
  • "syslog.h" bindings for node.js https://github.com/tblobaum/rconsole
• Async https://github.com/creationix/safereturn
• Google Cloud Messaging for Android
  • https://github.com/h2soft/node-gcm
  • https://github.com/ToothlessGear/node-gcm
• Workers https://github.com/visionmedia/axon
• leveldb
  • https://npmjs.org/package/levelup
  • https://npmjs.org/package/leveldb
• Filesystem Watch
  • https://github.com/bevry/watchr
  • https://github.com/shama/gaze
  • https://github.com/carlos8f/saw
  • https://github.com/wearefractal/glob-watcher
  • https://www.npmjs.org/package/chokidar used by watchify
• Scraping with jquery style api https://npmjs.org/package/cheerio
• OAuth https://github.com/Mashape/mashape-oauth
• Require mocking https://github.com/thlorenz/proxyquire
• socket.io http://drewblaisdell.github.io/monitor.io/

CSS

• http://minfwk.com/
• http://fluidity.sexy/
• http://purecss.io/
• http://www.getskeleton.com/
• http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/
• http://foundation.zurb.com/
• http://semantic.gs/
• http://www.columnal.com/
• http://cssgrid.net/
• http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
• http://www.gumbyframework.com/
• Animations
  • http://h5bp.github.io/Effeckt.css/dist/
  • http://daneden.me/animate/
• Media Queries https://github.com/jareware/viewports
• http://tympanus.net/Development/ProgressButtonStyles/
• http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeLoadingEffects/
• http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeButtons/
• http://tobiasahlin.com/spinkit/
• http://blokkfont.com/
• Center stuff http://css-tricks.com/centering-css-complete-guide/

Front-end automation/testing

• http://dalekjs.com/
• https://github.com/chenglou/node-huxley/
• http://nightwatchjs.org/
• http://www.nightmarejs.org/
• http://casperjs.org/
• https://github.com/admc/wd

Others

• https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs
• https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react

Tools

not libraries

regexp

• http://www.regexr.com/
• https://regularish.gavinhungry.io/
• http://www.regexper.com/
• https://www.debuggex.com/
• http://regex101.com/

JSON editing

• https://www.jsoneditoronline.org/