28 Amazing Open Source JavaScript Projects for the Past Year (v.2018)

For the past year, we’ve compared nearly 6,900 JavaScript open source projects to pick Top 28 (0.4% chance).

This is an extremely competitive list and it carefully picks the best open source JavaScript libraries, tools and apps published between January and December 2017. Mybridge AI evaluates the quality by considering popularity, engagement and recency. To give you an idea about the quality, the average number of Github stars is 4,866.

• 48 Amazing JavaScript Open Source for the Past Year (v.2019): Here
• React.js Projects of the Year (avg. 3,366 ⭐️): Here (0 duplicate)
• Web Development Tools of the Year(avg. 5,260 ⭐️): Here (1 duplicate)

Open source projects can be useful for programmers. You can learn by reading the source code and build something on top of the existing projects. Give a plenty of time to play around with JavaScript open source projects you may have missed for the past year.

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A) Beginner

The Complete JavaScript Course: Build a Real-World Project with modern JavaScript.

[65,027 recommends, 4.7/5 stars]

B) Algorithm

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(Click the numbers below. Credit given to the biggest contributor.)

No 1

Prettier: An opinionated JavaScript formatter. [19356 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Vjeux

No 2

Parcel: Blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler [14672 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Devon Govett, Software Engineer at Adobe and Badass JavaScript

No 3

Prepack: A tool for making JavaScript code run faster. [10717 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Herman Venter at Facebook Engineering

No 4

Draggable: The JavaScript Drag & Drop library your grandparents warned you about. [9622 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Shopify

No 5

AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web using ARToolKit — 60fps on mobile! [9275 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Jerome Etienne

No 6

JS-xlsx (v0.10): SheetJS Community Edition — Spreadsheet Parser and Writer [8561 stars on Github].

No 7

Reaction (v 1.0): A customizable, real-time reactive, JavaScript commerce platform. [6231 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Aaron Judd at Reaction Commerce

No 8

deeplearn.js: A hardware-accelerated machine intelligence library for the web [5504 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Google Brain

No 9

Luxon: A library for working with dates and times in JS [5099 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Isaac Cambron

No 10

Reason: Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems — Facebook Engineering [4450 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Cheng Lou

No 11

G2 (v 3.0): The Grammar of Graphics in JavaScript [4050 stars on Github].

No 12

Workbox: JavaScript libraries for Offline Caching [3810 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Matt Gaunt and Addy Osmani at Google

No 13

Tone.js (verson r11): A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser. [3737 stars on Github].

No 14

Nanoid: A tiny, secure URL-friendly unique string ID generator for JavaScript [3542 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Andrey Sitnik

No 15

Lozad.js: Advanced performant Lazy Loader using Intersection Observer API(1 million downloads!) [3426 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Apoorv Saxena

No 16

Rythm.js: A javascript library that makes your page dance. [2857 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Benjamin Plouzennec

No 17

Superstruct: A simple and composable way to validate data in Javascript. [2793 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Ian Storm Taylor, Co-founder at Segment

No 18

Scrollama: A JavaScript library for scrollytelling using IntersectionObserver in favor of scroll events. [2783 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Russell Goldenberg

No 19

Zuck.js: A javascript library that lets you add stories EVERYWHERE [2374 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Ramon Souza

No 20

Amplitude.JS (v 3.0): HTML5 Audio Player for the modern era. No dependencies required. [2198 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Dan Pastori

No 21

Buttercup (v 0.2): Javascript Password Vault — Multi-Platform Desktop Application [1910 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Sallar Kaboli

No 22

Bottender: Make Bots in Your Way, Fast and Flexibly [1894 stars on Github]. Courtesy of C.T. Lin

No 23

Webpackmonitor: A tool for monitoring webpack optimization metrics through the development process [1877 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Jon Roach, Gordon Yu and Bzuhair at Webpackmonitor Team

No 24

Nearley (v 2): Simple, fast, powerful parser toolkit for JavaScript [1661 stars on Github].

No 25

Spacetime: A lightweight javascript timezone library [1488 stars on Github]. Courtesy of spencer kelly

No 26

Maptalks.js: A light and plugable JavaScript library for integrated 2D/3D maps [1123 stars on Github].

No 27

Luma.gl (v 5.0): A JavaScript WebGL Framework for Data Visualization — UBER [872 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Uber Engineering

No 28

Quokka.js: Live Scratchpad for JavaScript. Run your code immediately as you type and display various execution results in your code editor. [355 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Artem Govorov

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