/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.

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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.

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
  • famo.us - Framework that helps you to create UIs
  • kube - Minimalistic Web framework
  • materialize - A modern responsive front-end framework based on 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.
  • uikit - A lightweight and modular front-end framework

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
  • epoch - A general purpose, real-time visualization library
  • 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
  • vis.js - A dynamic, browser based visualization library

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
  • 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

Text

  • 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

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

Audio

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

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

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
  • loadXT - Lazy loading for any elements
  • Unveil - Lightweight plugin to lazy load images for jQuery or Zepto.js
  • echo - Lazy-loading images with data-* attributes

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
  • 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:

Animations

UI Elements

  • awesomplete - Lightweight autocomplete
  • Bootstrap-growl - Turns standard Bootstrap alerts into "Growl-like" notifications
  • Bootstrap Notify - Turn standard bootstrap alerts into "growl" like notifications
  • button concepts - List of CSS button variations
  • chosen - Library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more friendly
  • countUp.js - Count up or down animation effects for numbers
  • Flipside - A button that seamlessly transitions from action to confirmation with flipping animation
  • Loaders.css - Delightful, performance-focused pure css loading animations
  • Messenger.js - Client-side growl-like notifications with actions and auto-retry.
  • MProgress.js - Google Material Design Progress Linear bar
  • NProgress - Slim progress bars for Ajax'y applications. Inspired by Google, YouTube, and Medium
  • nanobar - Very very lightweight progress bars without jQuery
  • PleaseWait.js - A simple library to show your users a beautiful splash page while your application loads
  • select2 - JQuery based replacement for select boxes
  • 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
  • tether - Marrying UI Elements (dropdown, tooltips, guide, selects)
  • Toastr - Simple toast notifications

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

HTTP requests

  • aja - Asynchronous JavaScript And JSON(P)
  • fetch - A window.fetch javascript polyfill
  • intercooler-js - Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags
  • reqwest - Browser asynchronous HTTP requests
  • superagent - Client-side HTTP request library

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

Events

General

  • accounting.js - Number, money and currency formatting
  • 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

Icons

Colors

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
  • 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

Social

  • 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

Form validation

Internationalization

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