Awesome Mad Science

Delightful npm packages that make you say "wow, didn't know that was possible!" PRs welcome!

peer-to-peer

• peerwiki - all of wikipedia on bittorrent
• simple-peer - send video/voice/data p2p in the browser (with webrtc)
• torrent-docker - realtime boot of remote docker images over bittorrent
• torrent-mount - mount a torrent as a filesystem
• webtorrent - streaming torrent client for node & the browser

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

License

To the extent possible under law, Feross Aboukhadijeh has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.