JSDB.io – A Database of JavaScript Libraries

http://www.jsdb.io/?sort=trending

by nvk • 13 years ago

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joemir• 13 years ago

Would be great if all the packages on Bower were presented like this.

nvk2• 13 years ago

ksokhan5• 13 years ago

Potentially each item could have a bower package name or endpoint that you can copy and paste into terminal?

nvk2• 13 years ago

That sounds great, would definitely save some time.

jonaldomo• 13 years ago

I like the design of this site. I actually use the bower search site http://sindresorhus.com/bower-components/ and cdnjs http://cdnjs.com/ as a listing of javascript libraries also. I would like to see the three merged.

deweller• 13 years ago

Looks like 531 libraries are in this list as of now.

knes• 13 years ago

Thank you for this. I just discovered http://fooplugins.com/footable-demos/ and it's the perfect alternative to Data Table!

dracoli• 13 years ago

What's the calculation for the ratings? Also would be great if there are sorting options.

Otherwise this is really great!

ksokhan5• 13 years ago

three sorting options: recent, popular, trending. What kind of sorting were you looking for?

Lerc• 13 years ago

It struck me, while browsing that, I would like to be able to browse the libraries by excluding known types.

Things like "Show me all the things that are not frameworks or jQuery plugins"

I'm not looking for anything in particular, but it would nice to see the possibilities without having to search through things that I know I'm not looking for today.

camus4• 13 years ago

Confusing name. It's not a db engine built with javascript.

manojlds3• 13 years ago

Is imdb a new NoSQL database?

lsb• 13 years ago

That would be pretty nifty, a NoSQL store backed by the delay-line memory[1] of IRC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory

camus4• 13 years ago

is im a programming language ?

manojlds3• 13 years ago

My favorite ( though only for jquery plugins ) - http://www.unheap.com/

joeblau• 13 years ago

That site looks clean! Do you know who developed it?

kanakiyajay• 13 years ago

Similar database of jquery plugins http://jquer.in/

andrew_gardener• 13 years ago

hovering over ratings: "Overall JSDB.io Rating (derrived from combination of the other metrics)"

So I guess that means the rating are based on some formula of: stars + average time between commit + forks + contributes

My only problem is that doesn't this rating favor larger projects (Angular or Ember) as opposed to smaller projects that are perfect for solving small problems? The only way I can see around that is if stars has an overwhelming weight in the formula.

Anyways, looks helpful none the less (will look though it)

ksokhan5• 13 years ago

Hey! (I made this) Stars do have more rating than the other metrics, which evens things out. Yes, larger libraries like jQuery are rating higher because of the ranking system, but thats actually accurate if you are looking at 'popularity'; furthermore, there are only a few projects that are on this scale.

Try 'trending' if you want to see libraries that are growing quickly.

KevinEldon• 13 years ago

Looks great. I've had luck with http://www.javascriptoo.com/ too.

jb552• 13 years ago

It's unfortunate that people still think they need monolithic libraries to get anything done on the client side. The node ecosystem showed this doesn't have to be the case. It becomes even more important on the client side to keep dependencies small.

My favourite ecosystem for client side development these days is component (https://github.com/component/component). It's similar in style to npm but faster and made for building apps from small modular pieces. It has a growing community and lots of modules already (https://github.com/component/component/wiki/Components).

graue2• 13 years ago

I've had this debate with a friend who's a big proponent of EmberJS (and to a lesser degree Angular). My friend feels that without one of these libraries you will simply be writing way too much unnecessary boilerplate code for a single-page app of significant size. I personally prefer to rely on small modular dependencies, so Component appeals to me, but I've only played with Ember/Angular a little bit so I don't necessarily know what I'm missing. Can you recommend a set of Components that would provide similar functionality and productivity?

jb552• 13 years ago

I'm still using backbone.js within our app but a lot of people seem to be using things like:

* https://github.com/component/view for views built on top of reactive for declarative bindings

* https://github.com/component/model for models

* https://github.com/component/router for routing

So what we have so far from these 3 libraries is basically a decomposed backbone with declarative bindings. That will cover 99% of your typical app. I don't find there is too much boilerplate.

ksokhan5• 13 years ago

I agree in as much as the small component I use is quite well supported and popular. Its a sort of insurance that I don't have to worry about bugs and it running stale. A lot of components in component seem to be written by a single person, and don't get much attention, which to me, is a liability.

camus4• 13 years ago

the issue is JS doesnt make things easy as soon as one wants to go modular. JS is so flexible that someone's script might not be compatible with yours.When JS gets a proper module system ,that doesnt really on voodoo modules, things will change.

dotneter• 13 years ago

http://jster.net/

JSDB.io – A Database of JavaScript Libraries

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