Awesome JavaScript

A curated list of amazingly awesome browser-side JavaScript libraries, resources and shiny things.

• Awesome JavaScript
  • Package Managers
  • Loaders
  • Testing Frameworks
  • MVC Frameworks
  • Templating Engines
  • Data Visualization
  • Code Editors
  • Utilities
    • Date
    • String
    • Storage
    • Color
    • I18n And L10n
    • Selector
    • Class
    • Event
    • Control Flow
    • Functional Programming
  • UI
    • Loading Status
    • Validation
    • Keyboard
    • Tours And Guides
    • Notifications
    • Sliders

Package Managers

Host the javascript libraries and provide tools for fetching and packaging them.

• Bower - A package manager for the web.
• component - Client package management for building better web applications.
• spm - Brand new static package manger.
• browserify - Browser-side require() the node.js way.
• jam - A package manager using a browser-focused and RequireJS compatible repository.
• yepnope.js - An Asynchronous Conditional Resource Loader.
• jspm - Frictionless browser package management.
• Ender - The no-library library.
• volo - Create front end projects from templates, add dependencies, and automate the resulting projects.

Loaders

Module or loading system for JavaScript.

• RequireJS - A file and module loader for JavaScript.
• SeaJS - A Module Loader for the Web.
• HeadJS - The only script in your HEAD.
• curl - A small, fast, extensible module loader that handles AMD, CommonJS Modules/1.1, CSS, HTML/text, and legacy scripts.
• lazyload - Tiny, dependency-free async JavaScript and CSS loader.
• script.js - Asyncronous JavaScript loader and dependency manager.

Templating Engines

Templating engines allow you to perform string interpolation.

• mustache.js - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript.
• handlebars.js - An extension to the Mustache templating language.
• hogan.js - A compiler for the Mustache templating language.
• doT - The fastest + concise javascript template engine for nodejs and browsers.
• dustjs - Asynchronous templates for the browser and node.js.
• eco - Embedded CoffeeScript templates.
• JavaScript-Templates - < 1KB lightweight, fast & powerful JavaScript templating engine with zero dependencies.
• t.js - A tiny javascript templating framework in ~400 bytes gzipped.

Data Visualization

Data visualization tools for the web.

• d3 - A JavaScript visualization library for HTML and SVG.
• Chart.js - Simple HTML5 Charts using the tag.
• peity - Progressive bar, line and pie charts.
• raphael - JavaScript Vector Library.
• highcharts - Highcharts JS, the JavaScript charting framework.
• echarts - Enterprise Charts.
• vis - Dynamic, browser-based visualization library.
• two.js - A renderer agnostic two-dimensional drawing api for the web.
• g.raphael - Charts for Raphaël.
• sigma.js - A JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing.
• arbor - A graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery.
• cubism - A D3 plugin for visualizing time series.
• dc.js - Multi-Dimensional charting built to work natively with crossfilter rendered with d3.js
• vega - A visualization grammar.
• envisionjs - Dynamic HTML5 visualization.
• rickshaw - JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive real-time graphs.
• flot - Attractive JavaScript charts for jQuery.
• morris.js - Pretty time-series line graphs.
• nvd3 - Build re-usable charts and chart components for d3.js
• svg.js - A lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG.
• heatmap.js - JavaScript Library for HTML5 canvas based heatmaps.
• jquery.sparkline - A plugin for the jQuery javascript library to generate small sparkline charts directly in the browser.
• xCharts - A D3-based library for building custom charts and graphs.
• trianglify - Low poly style background generator with d3.js
• d3-cloud - Create word clouds in JavaScript.
• d4 - A friendly reusable charts DSL for D3.

Date

Date Libraries.

• moment - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript.
• moment-timezone - Timezone support for moment.js.
• jquery-timeago - A jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago").
• timezone-js - Timezone-enabled JavaScript Date object. Uses Olson zoneinfo files for timezone data.

String

String Libraries.

• underscore.string - String manipulation extensions for Underscore.js javascript library.
• string.js - Extra JavaScript string methods.
• he - A robust HTML entity encoder/decoder written in JavaScript.
• multiline - Multiline strings in JavaScript.
• query-string - Parse and stringify URL query strings.
• URI.js - Javascript URL mutation library.
• jsurl - Lightweight URL manipulation with JavaScript.
• sprintf.js - A sprintf implementation.

Color

• chroma.js - JavaScript library for all kinds of color manipulations.

I18n And L10n

Localization (i18n) and internationalization (l10n) JavaScript libraries.

Functional Programming

Functional programming libraries to extend JavaScript’s capabilities.

• underscore - JavaScript's utility _ belt.
• lodash - A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras.
• Sugar - A Javascript library for working with native objects.
• lazy.js - Like Underscore, but lazier.

Loading Status

Libraries for indicate load status.

• NProgress - Slim progress bars for Ajax'y applications.
• Spin.js - A spinning activity indicator.
• progress.js - Create and manage progress bar for every objects on the page.
• pace - Automatically add a progress bar to your site.
• topbar - Tiny & beautiful site-wide progress indicator.
• nanobar - Very lighweight progress bars. No jQuery.
• PageLoadingEffects - Modern ways of revealing new content using SVG animations.
• css-loaders - A collection of loading spinners animated with CSS.

Besides libraries, there're Collection on Codepen, and generators like Ajaxload, Preloaders and CSSLoad.