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
- Charts
- Maps
- Text
- Video
- Audio
- Tables
- Module Loaders
- Lazy Loading
- Scrolling
- Animations
- UI Elements
- Templating
- HTTP requests
- Dates
- Events
- General
- Icons
- Colors
- Databases
- Social
- Form validation
- Internationalization
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- blip - Web Audio API wrapper
- howler - Audio library
- SoundCite - Inline audio player
- soundjs - Audio library + simple interface
- vexflow - HTML5 Music Engraving
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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:
- animate.css - A cross-browser library of CSS animations
- bounce.js - CSS3 powered animations
- GSAP - Fast animation library
- Hover.css - CSS3 Hover Effects
- impulse - Dynamic physics interactions for the mobile web
- semantic ui - transition - Simple CSS3 Animations and transitions
- snabbt - Animations with JavaScript and CSS transforms
- tween.js - Tweening engine
- velocity - Accelerated JavaScript animation
- 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
- 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
- aja - Asynchronous JavaScript And JSON(P)
- fetch - A
window.fetchjavascript polyfill - intercooler-js - Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags
- reqwest - Browser asynchronous HTTP requests
- superagent - Client-side HTTP request library
- 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
- bean - Events api
- gator.js - Simple event delegation
- EventEmitter2 - Events API with wildcards
- 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
- 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
- octicons - Github icons
- the nounproject - Icon search
- weloveiconfonts - A free & open source icon fonts hosting service
- bootflat color picker - Color picker for flat design
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Parsley - Easy Form validation