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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
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