modulexcite/frontend-stuff

A continuously expanded list of framework/libraries and tools I used/want to use when building things on the web. Mostly Javascript stuff.

Frontend stuff

A continuously expanded list of framework/libraries and tools I used/want to use when building things on the web. Mostly Javascript stuff.

Table of Contents

• UI Frameworks
• Charts
• Maps
• Tables
• Selects
• Loaders
• UI Elements
• Typography
• Video
• Audio
• Canvas and SVG
• Scrolling
• Animations
• Templating
• HTTP Requests
• Events
• Icons
• Colors
• Databases
• Validation
• Dates
• Internationalization
• Numbers & Currencies
• Module Loaders
• Lazy Loading
• Social
• General

UI Frameworks

• base - Responsive CSS framework with IE7+ support
• BASSCSS - Low-level CSS toolkit
• bootflat - Bootstrap with a flat design theme
• Bootswatch - A collection of themes for Bootstrap
• cardinal - Cardinal is a small mobile first CSS framework
• caramel - A simple, beautiful, responsive, modern CSS framework
• corpus - A collection of CSS things
• kube - Minimalistic Web framework
• Material Design Lite - Material Design Lite Components in HTML/CSS/JS
• materialize - A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design
• Metro UI - A front-end framework for developing website in Windows Metro Style
• milligram - Minimal setup of styles for a fast starting point.
• mui - A Lightweight HTML/CSS/JS Framework implementing Material Design
• papier - Material design like minimal CSS framework
• pure - A set of small, responsive CSS modules
• semantic-ui - UI Kit with lots of themes and elements
• skeleton - A dead simple, responsive boilerplate
• tacit - CSS framework without classes
• uikit - A lightweight and modular front-end framework

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Charts

• chartist - Simple responsive charts
• chartjs - Simple, clean and engaging charts for designers and developers
• c3 - D3-based reusable chart library
• dc - For heavy amounts of data
• dimple - An object-oriented API for business analytics powered by d3
• D3xter - Straight forward plotting built on D3
• ECharts - Charting library and interactive data visualization tool
• epoch - A general purpose, real-time visualization library
• flowchart.js - Draws flow charts from textual representation of the diagram
• jsplumb - Visual connectivity for webapps (flowcharts, sequence diagrams, etc)
• metricsgraphics - Optimized for visualizing time-series data
• morrisjs - SVG charts based on jquery and Raphael
• nvd3 - Re-usable charts and chart components for d3.js
• peity - Progressive mini pie, donut, bar and line charts
• sparkline - Sparkline charts library
• sparky - Sparkline charts library based on rapahel
• taucharts - Charts with a focus on design and flexibility
• timesheet.js - HTML5 & CSS3 time sheets
• uvCharts - Simple, robust, extensible charting library built using d3
• vis.js - A dynamic, browser based visualization library
• VivaGraph - Extensible graph drawing library
• Z3d - 3d plots with three.js

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Maps

• Cesium - Library for creating 3D globes and 2D maps in a web browser without a plugin
• Kartograph - Simple and lightweight framework for building interactive map applications without Google Maps
• leaflet - Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps
• leaflet generator - Yeoman generator that scaffolds out a leaflet map application
• leaflet plugins - Notable Leaflet Plugins
• leaflet topojson support - TopoJSON-aware Leaflet layer
• mapmap.js - A data-driven API for interactive thematic maps
• mapsicon - Collection of maps for nearly every country in the world in PNG and SVG
• osmbuildings - Library for visualizing buildings as pseudo 3D objects on interactive maps
• openlayers3 - Mapping library that supports different projections
• planetary - Interactive globes for the web
• smallworld - A small utility for generating a small world
• topojson - An extension to GeoJSON that encodes topology
• turf - A modular geospatial engine

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Tables

• Clusterize.js - Vanilla plugin to display large data sets
• DataTables - jQuery plugin which adds sorting, paging and filtering abilities to plain HTML tables with minimal effort
• dynatables - Semantic and interactive table plugin using jQuery, HTML5, and JSON
• handson table - Minimalist Excel-like data grid editor
• ListJS - Adds search, sort, filters and flexibility to plain HTML lists, tables, or anything
• sortable - Makes tables sortable

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Selects

• awesomplete - Lightweight autocomplete
• chosen - Library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more friendly
• select2 - JQuery based replacement for select boxes

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Loaders

• Loaders.css - Delightful, performance-focused pure css loading animations
• MProgress.js - Google Material Design Progress Linear bar
• NProgress - Slim progress bars for Ajax'y applications. Inspired by Google, YouTube, and Medium
• nanobar - Lightweight progress bars without jQuery
• PleaseWait.js - A simple library to show your users a beautiful splash page while your application loads

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UI Elements

• button concepts - List of CSS button variations
• countUp.js - Count up or down animation effects for numbers
• Flipside - A button that seamlessly transitions from action to confirmation with flipping animation
• Messenger.js - Client-side growl-like notifications with actions and auto-retry.
• Slideout.js - A touch slideout navigation menu for mobile web apps
• Sortable.js - Reorderable drag-and-drop lists
• SweetAlert - An awesome replacement for JavaScript's alert
• swiper - Slider with touch support
• Toastr - Simple toast notifications
• vex - A modern dialog library which is highly configurable and easy to style

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Typography

• bacon - Wraps text around a Bézier curve or a line
• bigfoot.js - Responsive popover footnotes
• dropcap.js - CSS dropcaps
• flowtype - Responsive typography
• grande.js - Library that implements features from Medium's editing experience
• lining.js - A complete DOWN-TO-THE-LINE control for radical web typography
• lettering - JQuery web typography plugin
• pen - Editor with markdown support
• Plumin.js - Create and manipulate fonts using javascript
• side-comments - Medium style comments
• slabText - jQuery plugin for producing big, bold & responsive headlines
• smart underline - Descender-aware underlines for every browser
• typeahead.js - Foundation for building robust typeaheads
• Typeplate - A typographic starter kit
• Typeset.js - HTML pre-processor for web typography
• Icomoon - Website to custom build fonts, useful for icons

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Video

• Fitvid - Responsive videos
• medialementjs - Video and audio handling
• Plyr - A simple HTML5 media player with custom controls and WebVTT captions
• talkie - Combines audio and animations
• Videojs - Open source HTML5 video player

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Audio

• audio5js - The HTML5 Audio Compatibility Layer
• blip - Web Audio API wrapper
• howler - Audio library
• SoundCite - Inline audio player
• soundjs - Audio library + simple interface
• timbre.js -Library for Objective Sound Programming
• vexflow - HTML5 Music Engraving

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Canvas and SVG

• D3 - A JavaScript visualization library for HTML and SVG
• Easeljs - Library for building canvas based interactive 2D content
• Fabric.js - Canvas Library, SVG-to-Canvas (& Canvas-to-SVG) Parser
• Paper.js - Canvas based vector graphics scripting framework
• Paths.js - Generate SVG paths for geometric shapes
• p5js - Processing for Javascript
• Raphael - Library that simplify your work with vector graphics on the web
• rune.js - A Library for programming graphic design systems with SVG
• svg.js - A Library for manipulating and animating SVG
• two.js - A two-dimensional drawing api

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Scrolling

• fracs - Plugin to determine the visible fractions of HTML elements
• midnight.js - Make your header looks great with the content below it as you scroll
• scroll-scope.js - Keep parent element still when scrolling an element to its boundary
• scrollme - A jQuery plugin for adding simple scrolling effects to web pages
• ScrollMagic - Library for scroll interactions
• skrollr - Stand-alone parallax scrolling library for mobile and desktop
• space.js - A HTML-driven JavaScript-library for narrative 3D-scrolling
• superscrollorama - The jQuery plugin for supercool scroll animation
• WOW - Reveal CSS animation as you scroll down a page
• headroom - Hide your header until you need it:

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Animations

• animate.css - A cross-browser library of CSS animations
• bounce.js - CSS3 powered animations
• Dynamics.js - Library to create physics-based CSS animations
• GSAP - Fast animation library
• Hover.css - CSS3 Hover Effects
• impulse - Dynamic physics interactions for the mobile web
• mojs - Motion for the web
• popmotion - Motion Engine. Use for animation, physics and input tracking.
• semantic ui - transition - Simple CSS3 Animations and transitions
• Sequence.js - Responsive CSS animation framework
• snabbt - Animations with JavaScript and CSS transforms
• snapsvg - Library for animating and manipulating SVG's
• tween.js - Tweening engine
• velocity - Accelerated JavaScript animations
• vivus - Vivus is a lightweight JavaScript class (with no dependencies) that allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearence of being drawn

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Templating

• dotjs - Fast templating engine
• Handlebars - Minimal Templating on Steroids
• Hogan - JavaScript templating
• mustache - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript
• nunjucks - A rich and powerful templating language
• paperclip.js - Reactive DOM template engine built for speed and extensibility

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HTTP Requests

• aja - Asynchronous JavaScript and JSON(P)
• fetch - A window.fetch javascript polyfill
• intercooler-js - Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags
• qwest - Ajax library with XHR2, promises and request limit
• reqwest - Browser asynchronous HTTP requests
• superagent - Client-side HTTP request library

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Events

• bean - Events api
• gator.js - Simple event delegation
• EventEmitter2 - Events API with wildcards

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Icons

• elegant - Elegant Icon font
• evil icons - Lightweight SVG icons
• flaticon - Tens of thousands of free monochromatic icons in SVG, font, PNG.
• fontawesome - Gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized
• fontello - Icon fonts generator
• foundation icon font 3 - Foundation Zurb Icon Font 3
• ionicons - The icon font for Ionic Framework
• material-design-icons - Material Design icons by Google
• octicons - Github icons
• the nounproject - Icon search
• weloveiconfonts - A free & open source icon fonts hosting service
• Icomoon - Website to custom build icon fonts

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Colors

• bootflat color picker - Color picker for flat design
• Brand Colors - Official color codes for the world's biggest brands
• chromajs - Library for all kinds of color manipulations
• chromajs color scale helper - Tool to help us mastering multi-hued, multi-stops color scales
• coolors - Super fast color scheme generator
• color - Intuitive color picker
• colorbrewer2 - Color advice for cartography
• ColorHexa - Color encyclopedia : Information and conversion
• colourco - Color scheme tool
• Colors - Smarter Default colors on the web
• uiGradients - A handpicked collection of beautiful colour gradients for design and code
• vibrant.js - Extract prominent colors from an image

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Databases

• ForerunnerDB - Database with mongo-like query language and data-binding support
• localForage - Library like a localStorage API with fallback store for browsers with no IndexedDB or WebSQL support
• LokiJS - Embeddable / in-memory database
• lovefield - SQL-like, relational query engine for the browser
• store.js - LocalStorage wrapper for all browsers without using cookies or flash. Uses localStorage, globalStorage and userData behavior
• pouchdb - Created to help developers build applications that work as well offline as they do online
• taffydb - Brings database features into your JavaScript applications

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Validation

• is.js - Micro check library
• Parsley - Easy Form validation
• validate.js - Form validation library inspired by CodeIgniter
• validator.js - String validation and sanitization

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Dates

• moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates
• sugar - Parse, create, manipulate, compare, format and display dates
• datedropper - datedropper is a jQuery plugin that provides a quick and easy way to manage dates for input fields.
• Pikaday - A refreshing JavaScript Datepicker — lightweight, no dependencies, modular CSS

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Internationalization

• l10ns - Internationalization workflowand formatting
• globalize - A JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that leverages the official Unicode CLDR JSON data

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Numbers & Currencies

• Numeral.js - Formatting and manipulating numbers
• accounting.js - Number, money and currency formatting
• money.js - Currency conversion library

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Statistics & data analysis

• datakit - Framework for data analysis
• datalib - Javascript data utility library
• jstat - Javascript Statistical Library
• science.js - Scientific and statistical computing in JavaScript
• simple-statistics - simple statistics for node & browser javascript
• statkit - Statistics toolkit

Module Loaders

• Browserify - Lets you require('modules') in the browser
• RequireJS - A file and AMD module loader
• stealjs - Dependency loader and builder
• Systemjs - ES6, AMD and CommonJS loader
• webpack - CommonJs and AMD module loader

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Lazy Loading

• Aload - Asynchronously loads images, scripts, styles and more
• echo - Standalone lazy loading image micro-library
• layzr.js - Dependency-free library for lazy loading images
• lazysizes - fast and self-initializing lazyloader for images, iframes and more
• loadXT - Lazy loading for any elements
• Unveil - Lightweight plugin to lazy load images for jQuery or Zepto.js

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Social

• js socials - Social network sharing jQuery plugin
• rrssb - Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons
• share-button - Fast, beautiful, and painless social shares
• socialcount - Custom sharing buttons with share count
• Social Likes - Single-style sharing buttons with counters for jQuery
• whatsapp button - Creates a whatsapp sharing button

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General

• embed.js - Automatically embeds emojis, media, maps, tweets, code and services
• formstone - Collection of handy useful scripts
• jwerty - Handling of keyboard events
• keymaster - Simple key listener
• lodash - Utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras
• modernizr - Feature Detection Library
• tether - Marrying UI Elements (dropdown, tooltips, guide, selects)
• UpUp - Offline First library. Let users visit your site, even without a connection.

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