Awesome JavaScript Mad Science – Massive Collection of Resources

Delightful npm packages that make you say “wow, didn’t know that was possible!” PRs welcome!

browserify

• brfs – turn fs.readFileSync() calls into inlined static assets
• browser field spec – replace certain files/modules when a module is bundled for the browser
• browserify – use require() in the browser
• glslify – npm modules compiled into WebGL shaders
• webworkify – composable web workers for browserify

files

• file-type – detect file content types by checking their magic numbers
• fuse4js – write filesystem driver in js

geometry

• alpha-shape – any dimensional alpha shapes (think “concave” hull)
• box-intersect – fast any dimensional box intersection detection
• convex-hull – robust any dimensional convex hull
• delaunay-triangulate – robust any dimensional delaunay triangulation
• surface-nets – extracts level sets in any dimension
• voronoi-diagram – any dimensional voronoi diagrams
• voxelize – voxelize a mesh

hardware

• cylon – command robots, devices, and more from node

images

• indico.io – facial emotion recognition and facial feature extraction
• trackingjs – computer vision on the web

sound

• doppler – detect motion with the doppler effect using only the microphone and speakers
• speak.js – text-to-speech on the web

streams

• strip-html – strip html from a stream

text

• diff – show text differences
• franc – detect the language of text
• indico.io – political sentiment analysis
• node-tesseract – A simple wrapper for the Tesseract OCR package
• normit – Google translate text & speak it
• ocrad.js – OCR in Javascript via Emscripten
• pullquoter – pull interesting quotes out of an article
• sbd – split text into sentences
• sentiment – basic sentiment analysis

terminal

• minimist – simple argument parser
• progress – create a simple terminal progress bar
• terminal-menu – create retro terminal menus
• vantage.js – CLI + SSH + REPL for Node
• cash – Cross-platform Linux commands in pure ES6

virtual machines

• jsemu – A list of emulators written in the JavaScript
• jslinux – x86 emulator for running Linux, written in JavaScript
• jvm – java virtual machine in pure node.js
• doppio – actively updated jvm in node.js, written in TypeScript

misc

• bell.js – real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series.
• bitcoinjs-lib – bitcoin client for node & the browser
• fastparallel – zero overhead parallel function calls
• google-distance – calculate travel distance between two locations on earth using Google Maps’ API
• qr-image – generate QR codes

meta-programming

• notevil – javascript javascript interpreter, useful for running untrusted code safely.

mad scientists (people)

• Mikola Lysenko – linear algebra, computational geometry, WebGL
• Dominic Tarr – streams, distributed systems
• Elijah Insua – NC machines, CAD/CAM
• Mathias Buus – torrents in node, fuse bindings, data replication
• Feross Aboukhadijeh – webtorrent, bittorrent, p2p hacks
• Max Ogden – streams, voxels, data replication