Frontend stuff
A continuously expanded list of frameworks, libraries and tools I used/want to use for building things on the web. Mostly Javascript stuff.
Table of Contents
- CSS/UI Frameworks
- Frontend Frameworks/UI Component Libraries
- Allrounder (jQuery like)
- Charts
- Maps
- Tables & Spreadsheets
- Selects
- Loaders
- UI Elements
- Content Slider/Carousels
- Typography/Text
- Video
- Audio
- Canvas and SVG
- 3D/WebGL Frameworks
- Image Processing
- Scrolling
- Touch Gestures
- Animations
- Templating
- HTTP Requests
- Events
- Icons
- Colors
- Databases/Storage
- Validation
- Dates
- Internationalization
- Numbers & Currencies
- Statistics & data analysis
- Module Loaders
- Lazy Loading
- Neural Networks
- Social
- Utility Libraries
- General
CSS/UI Frameworks
- bootflat - Bootstrap with a flat design theme
- Bootswatch - A collection of themes for Bootstrap
- bulma - CSS framework based on Flexbox
- cardinal - Cardinal is a small mobile first CSS framework
- caramel - A simple, beautiful, responsive, modern CSS framework
- corpus - A collection of CSS things
- HTML Starterkit - HTML5 template to kick off your responsive websites
- 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.
- mini.css - A minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework/toolkit
- mui - A Lightweight HTML/CSS/JS Framework implementing Material Design
- NES.css - NES-style CSS Framework
- paperCSS - The Less Formal CSS Framework
- papier - Material design like minimal CSS framework
- pavilion - Unopinionated CSS framework
- picnicss - Lightweight UI library
- pure - A set of small, responsive CSS modules
- semantic-ui - UI Kit with lots of themes and elements
- Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework
- tachyons - Modular UI framework
- tacit - CSS framework without classes
- uikit - A lightweight and modular front-end framework
- wing - Minimal CSS framework
Frontend Frameworks/ Ui Component Libraries
- Angular - HTML enhanced for web apps
- Aurelia - UI framework for the browser, mobile or desktop apps
- choo - Isomorphic, single state, functional frontend framework
- deku - Library for rendering interfaces using pure functions and virtual DOM
- DisplayJS - A simple JavaScript framework for building ambitious UIs
- hyperapp - Micro-framework for building web applications
- inferno - Isomorphic library for building high-performance user interfaces
- jsblocks - MV-ish framework for single page apps
- mercury - Modular frontend framework
- mithril - Client-side MVC framework
- Moon - Minimal UI library
- preact - React ES6 API + Components & Virtual DOM
- React - Library for building user interfaces
- RE:DOM - Library for creating user interfaces
- react-lite - Implementation of React that optimizes for small script size
- riot - User interface micro-library
- skatejs - Web component library
- Solid - declarative and flexible library for building user interfaces
- svelte - The magical disappearing UI framework
- vue - Library for building web interfaces
Allrounder (jQuery like)
- bliss - A collection of helpers and light syntactic sugar over Vanilla JS
- cash - Library that provides jQuery style syntax to wrap modern Vanilla JS features
- jQuery - Feature-rich JavaScript library
- nanoJS - Minimal standalone JS library for DOM manipulation
- NodeList.js - Use the Native DOM APIs as easily as jQuery
- Selector - Lightweight library used as a replacement for jQuery
- umbrella - DOM, Event and AJAX library
- zeptojs - Library with a largely jQuery-compatible API
Charts
- chartist - Simple responsive charts
- charts - SVG Charts with zero dependencies
- chartjs - Simple, clean and engaging charts for designers and developers
- chart.xkcd - Chart library for "sketchy" or "cartoony" styled charts
- Cytoscape.js - Graph theory / network library for analysis and visualisation
- 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
- f2 - Interactive and flexible charting library for mobile
- flowchart.js - Draws flow charts from textual representation of the diagram
- Frappe - SVG charts for the web with zero dependencies
- ggraph - Graph visualization of big messy data
- jsplumb - Visual connectivity for webapps (flowcharts, sequence diagrams, etc)
- metricsgraphics - Optimized for visualizing time-series data
- morrisjs - SVG charts based on jquery and Raphael
- muze - Composable data visualisation lib with a data-first approach
- nvd3 - Re-usable charts and chart components for d3.js
- peity - Progressive mini <svg> pie, donut, bar and line charts
- taucharts - Charts with a focus on design and flexibility
- timesheet.js - HTML5 & CSS3 time sheets
- tui.chart - Data visualization library with IE8 support
- uPlot - Canvas based chart for time series, lines, areas, ohlc & bars
- 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
Maps
- Cesium - Library for creating 3D globes and 2D maps in a web browser without a plugin
- harp.gl - Web map rendering engine
- leaflet - Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps
- leaflet plugins - Notable Leaflet Plugins
- Mapbox GL JS - Interactive WebGL maps from vector tiles
- 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
- Tangram - WebGL based map renderer
- topojson - An extension to GeoJSON that encodes topology
- turf - A modular geospatial engine
Tables & Spreadsheets
- 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
- tablesaw - A group of plugins for responsive tables
- tui-grid - Widget to visualize and edit data via its table representation
- x-spreadsheet - A web-based spreadsheet
Selects
- awesomplete - Lightweight autocomplete
- chosen - Library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more friendly
- select2 - JQuery based replacement for select boxes
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
- PACE - Automatic page load progress bar. Needs zero config. Easy themeable.
- PleaseWait.js - A simple library to show your users a beautiful splash page while your application loads
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.
- nouislider - Range slider
- nudge - Provides simple on-screen nudges / notifications
- 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
- Toastr - Simple toast notifications
- vex - A modern dialog library which is highly configurable and easy to style
Content Slider/Carousels
- Glide - A dependency-free slider and carousel
- Glider.js - A minimal carousel with momentum scrolling
- lory - Minimalistic slider written in vanilla JavaScript
- ItemSlide.js - Touch carousel (needs jquery)
- Siema - Carousel with no dependencies
- slick - Fully responsive carousel (needs zepto or jquery)
- swipe - Touch slider with React and Angular support
- swiper - Slider with touch support
Typography/Text
- Blotter - Unconventional text effects for the web
- fitty - Scales text so it fits to its parent container
- flowtype - Responsive typography
- RoughNotation - Library to create and animate annotations
- shave - Plugin for truncating text within an html element
- Typeset.js - HTML pre-processor for web typography
Video
- medialementjs - Video and audio handling
- Plyr - A simple HTML5 media player with custom controls
- talkie - Combines audio and animations
- Videojs - Open source HTML5 video player
Audio
- abcjs - javascript for rendering abc music notation
- audio5js - The HTML5 Audio Compatibility Layer
- bap - Toolkit for making beats and composing sequences
- howler - Audio library
- soundjs - Audio library + simple interface
- timbre.js - Library for Objective Sound Programming
- tone.js - Framework for interactive music
- tonal - A functional music theory library
- vexflow - Library for rendering music notation
- wavesurfer.js - Navigable waveform
Canvas and SVG
- canvas-sketch - Framework for making generative artwork
- 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
- GraphicsJS - Graphics library with an intuitive API, based on SVG/VML technology
- Konva - Framework that extends the 2d context by enabling canvas interactivity
- panzoom - Pan and zoom SVG elements
- Paper.js - Canvas based vector graphics scripting framework
- Paths.js - Generate SVG paths for geometric shapes
- pixi.js - 2D WebGL rendering engine with Canvas fallback
- p5js - Processing for Javascript
- Raphael - Library that simplify your work with vector graphics on the web
- Rough.js - Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance
- rune.js - A Library for programming graphic design systems with SVG
- svg.js - A Library for manipulating and animating SVG
- svg-3d-builder - Tool to create 3d model with svg
- two.js - A two-dimensional drawing api
- vizflow - Interactive visualization engine
- Zdog - Pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG
3D/WebGL Frameworks
- babylonJS - Framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio
- sceneJS - WebGL-based 3D visualization engine
- three.js- 3D Library which makes WebGL simpler
- voxel.js - Voxel game building toolkit
- WhitestormJS - Framework for developing 3D web apps with physics
Image Processing
- camanjs - Combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and image/canvas editing techniques
- grafijs - Library with basic image processing functions
- smartcrop - Content aware image cropping
Scrolling
- basicScroll - Standalone parallax scrolling for mobile and desktop with CSS variables
- emergence.js - Detect element visibility in the browser
- headroom - Hide your header until you need it
- in-view - Get notified when a element enters/exits the viewport
- moveTo - Scroll animation library
- scroll-scope.js - Keep parent element still when scrolling an element to its boundary
- ScrollMagic - Library for scroll interactions
- scrollMonitor - API to monitor elements as you scroll
- scrollreveal - Scroll animations for web and mobile browsers
- verge - Get viewport dimensions, detect elements in the viewport
Touch Gestures
- AlloyFinger - Multi-touch gestures library
- Hammer.js - Add support for touch gestures and remove 300ms delay from clicks
Animations
- animate.css - A cross-browser library of CSS animations
- Animate Plus - Tiny (2 KB minified and gzipped) animation library
- Anime - Anime is a flexible yet lightweight animation library
- bounce.js - CSS3 powered animations
- choreographer - Library to take care of complicated css 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
- KUTE.js - animation engine, memory efficient & modular code
- mojs - Motion for the web
- popmotion - Motion Engine. Use for animation, physics and input tracking.
- rebound - Library that models Spring dynamics for driving physical animations
- repaintless - Animation library that consists of animations that don't cause reflows and repaints
- Scene.js - Timeline-based animation library
- semantic ui - transition - Simple CSS3 Animations and transitions
- Sequence.js - Responsive CSS animation framework
- shifty - Tweening engine
- 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
Templating
- dotjs - Fast templating engine
- Handlebars - Minimal Templating on Steroids
- Hogan - JavaScript templating
- marko - Fast and lightweight HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering, custom tags and a concise syntax
- 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
- vdo - Minimal JSX compatible html focused templating engine
HTTP Requests
- aja - Asynchronous JavaScript and JSON(P)
- axios - Promise based HTTP client
- d3-request - A convenient alternative to XMLHttpRequest
- fetch - A
window.fetchjavascript 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
Events
- bean - Events api
- gator.js - Simple event delegation
- EventEmitter2 - Events API with wildcards
- mitt - Tiny functional event emitter / pubsub
Icons
- elegant - Elegant Icon font
- eva-icons - Icon pack with SVG, Sketch, Web Font and animation support
- evil icons - Lightweight SVG icons
- Feather - Simply beautiful open source 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
- Icomoon - Website to custom build icon fonts
- ikonate - Fully customisable & accessible vector icons
- 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
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
- colormind - Deep learning AI that knows color theory and creates color schemes
- Colors - Smarter Default colors on the web
- hcl-picker - Colorpicker for data
- kewler - Functional and immutable color manipulation library
- khroma - AI color tool for designers
- polychrome - Color manipulation helper
- uiGradients - A handpicked collection of beautiful colour gradients for design and code
- vibrant.js - Extract prominent colors from an image
Databases/Storage
- basil.js - Persistence layer
- Dexie.js - Wrapper for IndexedDB
- ForerunnerDB - Database with mongo-like query language and data-binding support
- idb - IndexedDB with Promises
- 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
- pouchdb - Created to help developers build applications that work as well offline as they do online
- rxdb - Reactive, serverless, client-side, offline-first database
- store.js - Cross-browser storage using localStorage, globalStorage or userData
Validation
- is.js - Micro check library
- Parsley - Easy Form validation
- validate.js - Form validation library inspired by CodeIgniter
- validator.js - String validation and sanitization
- yup - Yup is a schema builder for runtime value parsing and validation.
Dates
- dateformat - Library for formatting dates
- date-fns - Toolset for manipulating dates
- flatpickr - Lightweight date time picker without dependencies
- instadate - A minimal date library
- luxon - A library for working with dates and times
- moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates
- Pikaday - A lightweight Datepicker
- sugar - Parse, create, manipulate, compare, format and display dates
- tinytime - Light date and time formatter
Internationalization
- l10ns - Internationalization workflow and formatting
- globalize - A library for internationalization and localization that leverages the official Unicode CLDR JSON data
Numbers & Currencies
- Numbro.js - Formatting and manipulating numbers in more than 30 languages
- accounting.js - Number, money and currency formatting
- money.js - Currency conversion library
- cleave.js - Format input text content when you are typing
Statistics & Data Analysis
- datakit - Framework for data analysis
- datalib - Data utility library
- gauss - Statistics, analytics, and data library
- jstat - Javascript Statistical Library
- science.js - Scientific and statistical computing in JavaScript
- simple-statistics - simple statistics for node & browser javascript
- statkit - Statistics toolkit
- stdlib - Library with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing applications
- TheoremJS - A Math library for computation
Module Loaders
- Browserify - Lets you require('modules') in the browser
- RequireJS - A file and AMD module loader
- Rollup - ES6 module bundler with tree shaking abilities
- stealjs - Dependency loader and builder
- Systemjs - ES6, AMD and CommonJS loader
- webpack - CommonJs and AMD module loader
Lazy Loading
- Aload - Asynchronously loads images, scripts, styles and more
- echo - Standalone lazy loading image micro-library
- Lazy Progressive Enhancement - A lazy image loader designed to enforce progressive enhancement and valid HTML
- 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
Neural Networks
- brain - Neural networks in JavaScript
- ConvNetJS - Library for training Deep Learning models
- deeplearn.js - Hardware-accelerated machine intelligence library
- dn2a-javascript - Digital Neural Networks Architecture
- Mind - Flexible neural networks
- neurojs - Deep learning and reinforcement learning library
- synaptic.js - Architecture-free neural network
- Tensor Fire - Neural networks in the browser using WebGL
Social
- js socials - Social network sharing jQuery plugin
- rrssb - Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons
- share-button - Fast, beautiful, and painless social shares
- sharingbuttons - Social media sharing buttons without JavaScript
- socialcount - Custom sharing buttons with share count
- Social Likes - Single-style sharing buttons with counters for jQuery
- whatsapp button - Creates a whatsapp sharing button
Utility Libraries
- lazy.js - A functional utility library
- lodash - Utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras.
- moutjs - Collection of modular JavaScript utilities
- pareto.js - Functional utility library
- ramdajs - A practical functional library
- Sugar - Utility library for working with native objects
- underscore - Library that provides functional programming helpers
General
- dat.GUI - Minimal interface for live control of variables in JS
- embed.js - Automatically embeds emojis, media, maps, tweets, code and services
- formstone - Collection of handy useful scripts
- golden-layout - A multi-screen layout manager for webapps
- interact.js - Drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping
- jwerty - Handling of keyboard events
- keymaster - Simple key listener
- 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.
- bro-fs - Promise-based wrapper over HTML5 Filesystem API allowing to work with sandboxed filesystem in Chrome