JavaScript:Libraries

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A collection of libraries used in the front-end field, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and Npm.

Node.js runtime

• NodeJs:Native: Node.js native(c/c++) developer.
• libuv
• cares
• gtest
• http_parser
• undici
• npm
• openssl
• v8
• zlib

Runtime

• Node.js
• Bun - Fast JavaScript runtime/transpiler/NPM client based on JavaScriptCore
• deno
• edgejs - Secure WebAssembly-based JS runtime

Socket/Websocket

• Socket.io
• eventkit

Documentation

• JSDoc

Renderer

• Print.js - Saves as a PDF or an image.
• hwp.js
• print-js - Prints to a printer device.
• jscanify - Scan documents and convert them to PDF with Javascript
• react-pdf - React renderer for creating PDF files on the browser and server.
• react-to-pdf
• html2canvas - Copies HTML rendering results to a Canvas.
• jsPDF

Push notification

• node-c2dm
• node-apn
• node-gcm
• node-gcm (ToothlessGear)
• Push.js - Javascript library for setting up notifications on desktops and smartphones. - https://github.com/Nickersoft/push.js

Web frameworks

• express
  • express-session
• Hapi
• Sails
• NestJS (Nest) <- (compared to frameworks such as java+spring and python+django)
• AdonisJS - Web framework for Node.js
• Astro
• Nue - Standard-First web framework
• FullSoak - no-Build TypeScript full-stack framework

Backend

• Wabe - Open source for building a customizable backend in minutes
• Express

Http client

• Node.js:HTTP – the Standard Library
• Request - Simplified HTTP request client - https://github.com/request/request
• Axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js - https://github.com/axios/axios
• SuperAgent - Ajax with less suck - (and node.js HTTP client to match) - https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent
• Got - Simplified HTTP requests - https://github.com/sindresorhus/got
• node-fetch
• cross-fetch

SMTP

• Nodemailer - Powered by EmailEngine

Desktop application

• NW.js (node-webkit)
• Electron
• NodeGui
• Tauri - Desktop web app framework that produces small, fast executables

Security & Encryption & Crypto

• Passport
• tus - open protocol for resumable file uploads
• hashids.js - When a web service exposes unique URLs, showing IDs as plain numbers lets people predict IDs or infer things like the number of records, so this is used to generate random strings to send as IDs. The approach YouTube uses. - https://github.com/niieani/hashids.js
• crypto-js - Encryption library; useful when applying encryption to strengthen parameter security between client and server. - https://github.com/brix/crypto-js

Internet privacy

• fingerprint.js - Can be used to track what users do on the web or to identify drop-off points at specific points in a service.
  • https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2 moved -> https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs
• seed-fingerprint.js - A library that generates browser identification codes that can identify users.
• sourcebuster-js - When you click links in social media and email, you see strings like utm_* in the URL; this is short for Urchin Tracking Module, tracking information used by Urchin, which Google acquired. Uses UTM to tell you the source. - https://github.com/alexfedoseev/sourcebuster-js
• AmIUnique - Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet (by DIVERSIFY-project)
• TrusDevice - https://github.com/trustdecision/trustdevice-js
• Seon

Signature (handling signatures on the web)

• Signature Pad - Canvas-based signature capture Javascript library that handles signatures on the web. - https://github.com/szimek/signature_pad

Authentication

• Auth.js - Authentication library for the web
• AuthKit - The world's best login box powered by WorkOS and Radix.
• Better Auth - Comprehensive auth framework for TypeScript

Client-Side Rendering (CSR)

• Cycle.js: Meetup : TOAST Cloud - Introduction to JavaScript Frameworks 1 - Cycle.js ¹
• AngularJS: Meetup : TOAST Cloud - Introduction to JavaScript Frameworks 2 - Angular2 ²
• Vue.js: Meetup : TOAST Cloud - Introduction to JavaScript Frameworks 3 - Vue.js ³
• React: Meetup : TOAST Cloud - Introduction to JavaScript Frameworks 4 - React ⁴
• Svelte

Single Page Application

• React
  • create-react-app
    • craco (Create React App Configuration Override)
• Vue.js
• AngularJS

State Management

• redux
• recoil
• mobx
• zustand
• jotai
• vuex

Design System

• Storybook - UI component explorer for frontend developers
• kickstartDS - Open-source starter kit for design systems

Dashboard / Administration

• gridstack.js - TypeScript library for building dashboards

Server-Side Rendering (SSR)

• NuxtJS (Vuejs)
• Next.js (React)
• SvelteKit (Svelte)
• Remix - Full-stack web framework

Web Components

• Polymer

Polyfill

• URLSearchParams polyfills:
  • url-search-params (deprecated)
  • @ungap/url-search-params
  • qs - A querystring parser with nesting support

UI Frameworks

• Recommended React UI Frameworks for 2022 !!!
• Material UI (MUI, mui)
• HyperUI - Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components
• Headless UI - Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.
• NextUI
• Ant Design - The world's second most popular React UI framework
• LiftKit - UI framework for perfectionists

UI Placeholder

• UI Fillers - Placeholders for design
• ImgSrc.Space - Easy-to-use image/video placeholders
• SQIP - SVG-based image placeholders
• BlurHash - Blurred image placeholder generator
• Lorem Faces - AI-generated faces for avatars

Graphics

See Web Canvas for a longer list.

• PaperJS - HTML canvas vector graphics library
• Konva.js - HTML5 2d canvas js library for desktop and mobile applications
• JS Paint - JavaScript port of MS Paint.
• Skia Canvas (node) - A canvas environment for Node.js

Javascript Game Engines

• 8 Best Javascript Game Engines
• PixiJS
• Phaser
• Babylon.js
• PlayCanvas WebGL Game Engine
• Melon.js
• GDevelop
• Kiwi.js
• Three.js

Table/Grid

• 10 Data Table Libraries for JavaScript
• Cheetah Grid - Open-source ultra-fast data table
• Tabulator
• ag-Grid - https://www.ag-grid.com/
• AnyGrids - https://anygrids.com/
• Backgrid.js - https://backgridjs.com/
• DataTables - https://datatables.net/
• Handsontable - https://handsontable.com/
• jExcel Spreadsheet - https://bossanova.uk/jexcel/v4/
• KendoReact - https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui/
• React DataGrid - https://adazzle.github.io/react-data-grid/
• UI Grid - http://ui-grid.info/
• W2ui - http://w2ui.com/web/home
• TOAST UI Grid - Github - tui.grid
• DataGridXL2.js - Excel-like data table library
• Cheetah-Grid - Open-source ultra-fast data table
• FortuneSheet - Drop-in JS spreadsheet library similar to Excel/Google Sheets

Signing

• Documenso - Open-source alternative to DocuSign

Kanban

• jkanban - Vanilla Javascript plugin for manage kanban boards

TOAST UI

• TOAST UI :: Make Your Web Delicious!
• Chart
• Editor
• Grid
• Calender
• Image-editor

WYSIWYG & Editor

• Quill - WYSIWYG editor Javascript library for writing features on the web. - https://github.com/quilljs/quill
• Summernote - WYSIWYG editor Javascript library for writing features on the web. - https://github.com/summernote/summernote
• WebMemo - Browser-native notepad that runs with no installation and no server (supports Vim mode)

Spreadsheet

• HyperFormula - Open-source Excel-like calculation engine
• Luckysheet - Open-source JS spreadsheet library

CSS

• LESS
• SASS
• Bootstrap
• Material Design Lite
• cosha - Add colored shadows to images
• CSSgram - Instagram filter library built with Sass/CSS
• Buttons
• Tailwind CSS (Tailwindcss)
• XP.css - CSS that recreates the Windows XP style
• SmolCSS - Minimal snippets for modern CSS layouts and components
• Pico.css - Minimal CSS framework
• MVP.css - A minimalist stylesheet
• CSS Bed - No-Class CSS Frameworks
• Animatize - Create animations by dragging objects
• Griffel - Ahead-of-time compilable CSS-in-JS
• Autoprefixer - Adds CSS prefixes for each browser vendor.
• Sorted CSS Colors - A color chart that sorts CSS colors by hue, then by lightness/saturation, and shows their English names/RGB/HSL
• PostCSS - PostCSS is a software development tool that uses JavaScript-based plugins to automate routine CSS operations.
• PurgeCSS - Tool that finds and removes unused CSS
• daisyui

Code compression (Minify)

• Minify
• html-minifier

Code obfuscation (Uglify; Obfuscation)

• Uglify.js

Scroll Box

• Scroll-snap - Snaps the page into the desired position when scrolling stops
• Scrollbar.app - Interactive CSS scrollbar designer
• Infinite Scroll - Javascript library for infinite page scrolling. - https://github.com/metafizzy/infinite-scroll

Font and Icon

• [Recommended] Fontsource - Self-host Open Source fonts in neatly bundled NPM packages.
  • font-files
• Fontawesome
• Material Design Icons

Carousel libraries

• Flicking - Open-source carousel from Naver's FE team

Query language

• GraphQL

Programming language

• JSPyBridge - Bridge for interoperability between Node.js and Python
• pyscript - https://pyscript.net/
• Pyodide - Pyodide is a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly.

Template engine

• JSX
• Jade
• Pug (formerly Jade)
• mustache.js
• ejs

Logging

• morgan - Node.js Logger.
• LogLayer - Unified logger that runs on top of multiple Javascript logging libraries
• LogTape - A new approach to logging for JavaScript libraries

Logging Browser

• frontail - streaming logs to the browser

Boilerplate code (Scaffold)

• Ember.js
• Yeoman
• vue-cli

Front-End UI

• Responsively - Open-source testing tool for responsive web pages
• Material UI (MUI, mui)
• HyperUI - Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components
• Headless UI - Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.
• NextUI
• Ant Design - The world's second most popular React UI framework
• DaisyUI
• Radix
• Valdi - Cross-platform UI framework with native performance
• Shadcn

Builder

• Loopple - Build dashboards with drag and drop
• Onlook - Custom app-building tool using an open-source Webflow

AI Agent Builder

• Inkeep Agents - Platform for building AI agents with a No-Code builder and a TypeScript SDK

Popup & Alert & Dialog & Toast

• react-hot-toast
• Sweet Alert - Pretty browser-based popup box JavaScript library. - https://sweetalert2.github.io/
• Modaal - Browser-based popup JavaScript library. - https://github.com/humaan/Modaal
• toastr - Javascript library that can show push notifications. - https://github.com/CodeSeven/toastr

Test

• Karma
• Protractor
• Mocha+Chai
• Jasmine
• Jest
• SuperTest
• Tinybench - Lightweight JavaScript benchmarking library

End-to-End Test (e2e)

• Nightwatch
• Cypress

Bundler

• webpack
• bower
• Vite - Fast bundling using ESM.
• ncc - Compiles a Node.js project into a single file
• Turbopack
• rollup.js
• parcel
• Turborepo - Build system made by Vercel
• Astra - Lightweight, fast JavaScript-To-EXE compiler

Task runner

• gulp
• Grunt

Deploy

• branch-release
• Astro - Open-source tool that strips as much JS as possible out of existing web frameworks to make websites faster

Web crawler

(crawling/scraping/spider/spiderbot/crawler/scraper all mean the same thing)

• Metascraper - Metadata extraction tool

Database

• MongoDB: Mongoose
• Elasticsearch: elasticsearch.js
• MySQL: node-mysql
• Redis: node_redis
• Knex.js - Multi-DB SQL query builder for Node.js

Search

• MiniSearch - In-memory full-text search engine for JavaScript

Batch

• node-cron
• Node Schedule
• Agenda

Parsing

YAML

JSON

• JSON5 - JSON for humans

Process manager

• StrongLoop Process Manager (recommended)
• PM2
• forever

Any of these three tools can be very helpful, but StrongLoop Process Manager is the only one that provides a comprehensive runtime and deployment solution covering the entire Node.js application lifecycle, with tooling for every step before and after production, through a unified interface.

Below, we take a brief look at each of these three tools. For a detailed comparison of these tools, see http://strong-pm.io/compare/.

Watch service

• nodemon
• supervisor
• pm2
• Chokidar - Efficient cross-platform file watch library

Detects file changes and updates automatically.

Node-based editor (visual programming)

• Rete.js: JavaScript framework for visual programming and creating node editor
• Total.js
• Litegraph.js
• Flume
• Drawflow

Charts & Visualizations

• 7 great utility libraries for data visualization with JavaScript
• d3.js - A leading open-source data visualization library. Graph-specialized open-source extensions keep being built on it, making it the open source at the center of a visualization open-source ecosystem. - https://d3js.org/
• three.js
• Chart.js
  • vue-chartjs
  • vue-chart-3 - Supports chart.js 3.x.
• Paper.js
• Fabric.js
• ECharts - Data visualization (chart) JavaScript library made by "Baidu". Good interactivity, and supports many kinds of graphs usable for big data analysis. - https://github.com/apache/echarts
• Two.js
• ApexCharts - Modern & Interactive Open-source Charts. Supports JS, Angular, Vue, and React.
• vue-graph
• Plotly - JavaScript Open Source Graphing Library
• Google charts
  • vue-google-charts
• deck.gl - WebGL-based data visualization JavaScript library specialized for maps, made by Uber. - https://github.com/visgl/deck.gl
• Zircle UI - User interface library with circle-shaped zooming. Very useful for dashboard screens, and supports navigation up to 9 levels deep. Also supports mobile. - https://zircleui.github.io/docs/
• roughViz - JavaScript library for making hand-drawn-style graphs and charts. Based on D3.js and rough.js, it supports 7 kinds of graphs and charts: bar charts (vertical/horizontal), donut, line, pie, scatter plot, vertical stacked bar, and more. - https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz
• Zeu - High-performance JavaScript library that displays various data as real-time visualization animations with minimal effort. Supports bars, digital clock, Heartbeat, Message Queue, Network Graph, Round Fan, Speed ​​Circle, Text Meter, Volume Meter, and more. - https://github.com/shzlw/zeu
• odometer - JavaScript library that displays numbers with various shapes and effects. Usable for dashboards. Offers 7 themes to choose from (Default, Minimal, Car, Plaza, Slot Machine, Train Station, Digital). - https://github.hubspot.com/odometer/docs/welcome/
• EvilCharts - Chart library based on Shacdn & Recharts

Gantt chart

• Frappe - Open-source interactive Gantt charts

Timeline

• Planby - Timeline component for React

AD (advertising) related

• AdSense
• FuckAdBlock

Analytics

• Google Analytics

favicon

• Supercookie - Fingerprinting with favicons
• favicons - Favicons generator for Node.js

Storage

LocalStorage, SessionStorage, etc

Cookie

• js-cookie
• next-client-cookies (Nextjs)
• react-cookie (React)
• universal-cookie - Universal cookies for JavaScript
• universal-cookie-express - Hook cookies get/set on Express for server-rendering

Static web server

• http-server
• live-server

List of Static Site Generator

• Static Site Generator
• Documentation generator
• Octopress
• Hugo (Golang)
• Pelican
• GatsbyJS (JS+React)
• Jekyll (Ruby)
• Hexo (JavaScript)
• JAMstack
• VuePress
• meli - Open-source hosting platform for static sites
• Netlify
• GitHub Pages
• ROAPI - Generate APIs for static datasets without writing a single line of code
• zola - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in.
• Evidence - Web framework for data analysts (open source that turns documents written in SQL and Markdown into reports in the form of a static site)
• Eleventy - Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.
• Nuxt (JavaScript+Vue)
• Zola (Rust)
• Elder (JavaScript+Svelte)
• Lusift - JS library for building product tours
• Astro - Ship as little JavaScript as possible
• fusion.ssg - Minimal framework for static websites
• 11ty
• SkunkHTML - Automatically generate websites on GitHub Pages from Markdown
• Pelican
• Sphinx (documentation generator)
• Redoc
• mkdocs
• Nikola
• Docusaurus
• Zensical
• Gitmal - Static page generator for Git repositories

Media Player

• Clappr - An extensible media player for the web.
• OvenPlayer
• hls.js - HLS.js is a JavaScript library that plays HLS in browsers with support for MSE.
• Video.js
  • videojs-contrib-hls
• plyr
• MediaElement.js
• HTML5 RTSP paly a HTML5 streaming server
• THE HTML5 VIDEO PLAYER FOR ANGULARJS
• react-hls (React component for HLS player)

WebRTC

• PeerJS - simplifies WebRTC peer-to-peer data, video, and audio calls.

Video generation

• Remotion - Open-source framework for making videos with React
• Liqvid - Build interactive videos with React
• HyperFrames - Open-source framework built for AI agents that makes videos with HTML
• Animatize - Create animations by dragging objects

Audio

• wavesurfer.js - Open-source interactive audio waveform visualization library
• (Building JavaScript audio effectors) Making your own sound with audio effectors (JavaScript; Effects unit) ⁵
• AudioMass - Browser-based open-source audio editor with no backend
• Omniclip - Open-source web video editor

Sound/Music

• WebMidi.js

Web automation

• playwright: Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API

Virtual environments

• nodeenv
• nodenv
• nave
• nvm
• n
• Volta
• fnm (Fast Node Manager; Written in rust)

Environment variables

• cross-env
• crossenv - Contains malware. Caution!

Metrics Aggregations (Stats Aggregation)

• hot-shots - StatsD/DogStatsD/Telegraf client for Node

CMS

• Ghost

Session

• OpenReplay - OpenReplay is an open-source session replay stack that lets you see what users do in your web app, helping you solve problems faster.

Image/Background

• probe-image-size - Get image size without downloading the whole file
• JS IMAGE CARVER (js-image-carver) - Uses the Seam Carving algorithm to find only the unimportant repeating parts (seams) of an image and shrink or extend them.
• pinry - Pinterest-like image preview board.
• CompressImage.io - Tool that compresses JPG / PNG images in the browser (works offline, so it is safe and unlimited)
  • Uses Compressor.js.
• Rough.js - Library for making hand-drawn-looking images
• SVGInject - Helps inject SVG files into the DOM.
• Smartcrop.js - Open source that finds the important part of an image and crops it so it stays visible
• Cornerstone.js - Medical imaging library (many features such as zoom/filtering)
• ImgSrc.Space - Easy-to-use image/video placeholders (over 3 million images/videos, free and fast)
• Imagemaps - Web editor for easily creating HTML image maps
• marker.js - JavaScript image annotation, rotation, cropping libraries
• CleanUp.pictures - Open source for erasing objects from photos, using LaMa
• Viewer.js - Image preview.
• background-removal-js - Open-source in-browser background removal
• JIMP - Dependency-free image processing library for Node.js
• Cropper.js - Javascript library for uploading and cropping user images (profile pictures, etc.). - https://github.com/fengyuanchen/cropperjs
• Croppie - Notable for allowing zoom in/out while cropping images. - https://github.com/Foliotek/Croppie
• lightGallery - Usable as an image list gallery. Animations are well done too.

Avatar

• Boring Avatars - Automatic avatar generation https://boringavatars.com/
• RoboHash - Make profile images from strings https://news.hada.io/topic?id=3787
• BigHeads - Open-source random avatar generator https://news.hada.io/topic?id=2468
• Multiavatar - Multicultural avatar generator https://news.hada.io/topic?id=3276
• Unavatar - Unified loading of user avatar images https://news.hada.io/topic?id=2419
• UI Faces - Collection of avatar images for design mockups https://news.hada.io/topic?id=331

HTTP Status Code

• HTTP Cats - API that shows HTTP status codes as cats

Animation

• @vueuse/motion - Vue Composables putting your components in motion
• keen-slider.js - Stylish slider library - https://keen-slider.io/
• Vanta.js - Animated website backgrounds in a few lines of code.
• Animatize - Create animations by dragging objects
• Velocity.js
• barba.js - Library that adds flexible, smooth transitions between website pages
• AutoAnimate - Add motion to your web app with a single line of code
• Animista - https://animista.net/ - On-Demand CSS Animations Library - Pick an animation on the site and it generates the code. (recommended)
• Animation Library - Good but plain... ordinary... not much character.
• Magic CSS - This one is also good but plain...
• Animate.css - https://animate.style/ - Recommended because there are many kinds. Things like fadeInLeft are nice.
• CSS Gradient Animator
• AnimeJs - Fast, versatile JavaScript library that can animate anything on the web

path animation

• anime.js
• Snap.svg
• vivus.js
• walkway
• lazy line painter

ETC (needs checking)

• AnimXYZ - https://animxyz.com/
• lightGallery - Has animations, but its main purpose is an image gallery.
• Loading.io
• Skeleton Elements
• Micron
• AOS
• Vivify - https://github.com/Martz90/vivify
• Motus - https://github.com/alexcambose/motus
  • https://v1.alexcambose.ro/motus/#/
• Izmir - An image hover mini CSS library - https://github.com/ciar4n/Izmir
  • https://ciar4n-izmir.netlify.app/#/
• Mimic.css - https://github.com/erictreacy/mimic.css
  • https://erictreacy.github.io/mimic.css/
• https://github.com/miniMAC/magic
  • https://www.minimamente.com/project/magic/
• All Animation - https://github.com/all-animation/all-animation
• Typed.css - https://github.com/brandonmcconnell/typed.css
  • https://typedcss.com/
• Framer Motion - https://github.com/framer/motion
  • https://www.framer.com/motion/
• react-spring - A spring physics based React animation library - https://github.com/pmndrs/react-spring
  • https://www.react-spring.dev/
• tsParticles - https://github.com/matteobruni/tsparticles
  • https://particles.js.org/
• GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP) - https://greensock.com/docs/v3/Installation
• Remotion - https://www.remotion.dev/
• React Move - https://react-move-docs.netlify.app/
• React Awesome Reveal - https://react-awesome-reveal.morello.dev/

Tooltip/Popup

• Floating UI - Tooltip/popup/dropdown positioning library

WebAssembly

• WebContainers
• Javy - JS to WebAssembly toolchain

Window Manager

• [Recommended] WinBox.js - Window manager for the web
• [Recommended] rc-dock - Dock Layout for React Component
• [Recommended] dock-spawn-ts
• [Recommended] Golden Layout
• wcDocker
• jsPanel
• http://www.htmldockfloat.com
• PhosphorJS
• vue-lumino
  • Lumino

File Manager

Features comparable to a browser

• Media Manager - https://github.com/iutbay/mm
• Vuetify File Browser - https://github.com/semeniuk/vuetify-file-browser
• File Browser
• filepond - flexible and fun JavaScript file upload library.
• KodExplorer
• Uppy - Javascript library for file uploads on the web

Filesystem

Features focused on "data"

• readdirp - Node.js reader for efficiently reading large directories
• binary-parser - JavaScript parser builder for high-performance parsing of binary data

IO

• txt-reader - FileReader that can read large (GB+) files

QR code

• Html5-QRCode
• QRpicture

Random

• Rando.js - Random values with stylish design and effects - https://github.com/nastyox/Rando.js

Debugging/Logging

• WebHint - Tool for improving websites
• Web Vitals - Unified guidance on quality signals considered essential to delivering a great user experience
• ScreenLog.js - Library that displays the developer console output on the screen

Syntaxhighlight

• Shiki - A beautiful Syntax Highlighter
• Chalk.ist - Make pretty source code images
• Prism.js - A lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter built with modern web standards in mind.

Other Markup

Latex

• CortexJS MathLive - Web component for entering math formulas

Markdown

...

Terminal

• xterm.js
• ansi_up
• carbon - Renders source code as pretty images.

GIS/Map

• Mapkick.js - Create beautiful, interactive maps with one line of JS
• Mapbox-GL-js is no longer under the 3-clause BSD license
• MapLibre GL - Open-source fork of MapboxGL JS

Deep learning

• Handsfree.js - Easy face/hand/pose recognition on the web
• tesseract.js
• tensorflow.js

Compress/Zip/Unzip

• JSZip - JS library for creating/reading/editing Zip files

Datetime

• Moment.js - Time format (Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times in JavaScript) - Deprecated
  • Moment Timezone
• dayjs
• date-fns
• luxon

Date picker

• Duet Date Picker
• flatpickr - JavaScript library that makes date display look nice. - https://flatpickr.js.org/

Drag and drop

• dragula - Drag and drop so simple it hurts - Recommended for drag & drop. Well implemented.
• dnd-kit - The modern toolkit for building drag and drop interfaces

VCS/Git

• husky - git hook
• lint-staged - git hook for eslint

Lint/Type Checker

• Ezno - A new JavaScript Type Checker
• eslint

private registry

• Verdaccio

Lightweight

• UnsuckJS
• preact
• Bau
• lit
• spræ
• VanJS
• TwinSpark
• dom-proxy
• roxy
• Tram-Lite
• ite
• reken
• htmx
• strawberry
• Alpine.js
• Mithril
• Crank.js
• diffHTML
• hyperapp
• dlite
• data-template
• ponys
• bdc-js
• RE:DOM
• petite-vue
• CalDOM
• lighterhtml
• Litedom

Performance - Block DOM

• million - Makes React 70% faster
• lit-html
• ivi

Reactive

• VanJS - 1KB Reactive UI framework without React/JSX
• RxJS

Utilities

• Lodash - Utility for easily handling essential data structures such as Array, Collection, and Object.
• rambda - A lodash-like utility library that pre-implements functions commonly used in functional programming.
• htmlq - Like jq, but for HTML.
• vkBeautify.js
• npm-run-all - Run multiple scripts sequentially/in parallel
• del-cli - Delete files/directories
• delete-empty - Delete empty directories

Format and Schema validation

• Zod - TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference
• Cleave - Lets you easily define the format of numbers typed into form input elements. Supported formats: credit card, phone number, date/time, numeral (amount), and delimiter/prefix/block patterns. Supports React and AngularJS. - https://nosir.github.io/cleave.js/

Form & Input & Select

• typeahead.js - Autocomplete Javascript library made by Twitter. - https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js
• autoComplete.js - Autocomplete Javascript library. - https://github.com/TarekRaafat/autoComplete.js
• Select2 - Javascript library that makes select boxes flexible. - https://github.com/select2/select2
• chosen - Javascript library that makes select boxes flexible. - https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen

Clipboard

• clipboard.js - Javascript library that supports copying to the clipboard on the web. - https://github.com/zenorocha/clipboard.js/

Product tours, highlights, contextual help

• Driver.js - Library for showing product tours, highlights, and contextual help (moves a spotlight (highlight) onto specific on-screen elements step by step - the effect of showing the click order as highlights on a deployed site -)
• highlight.js - Emphasizes specific text on the screen. Works on top of HTML5 canvas.

2025 JavaScript Rising Stars

• 2025 JavaScript Rising Stars | GeekNews
  • [Original] 2025 JavaScript Rising Stars

Ranking of the JavaScript projects that gained the most GitHub stars during 2025

All projects category:

1. n8n
2. shadcn/ui
3. React Bits
4. Excalidraw
5. Supabase
6. Onlook
7. Better Auth
8. Dyad
9. AFFiNE
10. Stagehand

Other categories (check the rest on the site yourself):

• Front-end Frameworks
• React Ecosystem
• Vue Ecosystem
• Back-end/Full-stack
• Tooling
• AI
• Mobile
• State Management
• Styling / CSS in JS
• Component Libraries
• Testing
• Desktop
• Static Sites
• GraphQL

ETC

• Relay: A JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications.
• Flux: Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces.
• Immutable.js: Immutable data cannot be changed once created, leading to much simpler application development, no defensive copying, and enabling advanced memoization and change detection techniques with simple logic.
• Babel
• Browserify
• Stylus
• ded/bowser: Library that detects the web browser's version and type.
• Github - hotkey: Trigger an action on an element with a keyboard shortcut.
• Svelte
• Snowpack - Supports streaming imports: installs modules automatically when needed, without installing them in advance
• simple-keyboard- Dependency-free virtual keyboard library (supports Angular, React, Vue, Vanilla JS)
• Flagsmith - Feature Flag service
• falso - Open-source fake data generator
  • Email, domain, name, address, company name, credit card info, Ethereum/Bitcoin address ...
  • git branch/commit (message, SHA,), folder/file/extension, MAC address ...
  • Movies, music, cars, superheroes ...
• Sysend.js - Library for sending messages between browser tabs
• pushd
• Sequelize
• ejs
• restify
• body-parser
• cookie-parser
• serve-favicon
• jamoya-one - Jamoya moyeora ("Jamo, gather together") - Tool that fixes decomposed Hangul jamo in filenames
• Tachyon - Script that speeds up page loading
• Autocomplete - Fast, feature-rich open-source autocomplete library
• ForesightJS - JS library for performance-optimizing prefetching based on mouse/keyboard prediction
• Pretext – Pure JS layout library that measures text height without the DOM

See also

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Npm

Favorite site

• [Recommended] Openbase web site - Review, explore, and compare millions of open-source packages.
• Awesome Tiny JS - A collection of tiny JS libraries | GeekNews

References