List of JavaScript Libraries

This is a list of notable JavaScript libraries.

Table of Contents

• DOM (manipulation) Oriented
• Graphical/visualization (canvas or SVG related)
• GUI-related (widget)
• Pure JavaScript/Ajax
• Template systems
• Unit testing
• [Web-application related (MVC, MVVM)](#Web-application-related-(MVC, MVVM))

DOM (manipulation) Oriented

• Dojo Toolkit (Website, GitHub)
• jQuery (Website, GitHub)
• midori (Website)
• MooTools (Website, GitHub)
• Prototype JavaScript Framework (Website, GitHub)

Graphical/visualization (canvas or SVG related)

• D3.js (Website, GitHub)
• EaselJS, part of CreateJS (Website, GitHub)
• Plotly (Website, GitHub)
• JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit (Website, GitHub)
• Kinetic.js (Website, GitHub)
• Processing.js (Website, GitHub)
• Raphaël (Website, GitHub)
• SWFObject (Website, GitHub)
• Three.js (Website, GitHub)
• Velocity.js (Website, GitHub)

GUI-related (widget)

• AngularJS (Website, GitHub)
• Bootstrap (Website, GitHub)
• DHTMLX (Website, GitHub)
• Ext JS of Sencha (Website, GitHub)
• ZURB Foundation (Website, GitHub)
• Google's Polymer paper elements (Website, GitHub)
• jQuery UI (Website, GitHub)
• Kendo UI of Telerik (Website, GitHub)
• OpenUI5 of SAP (Website, GitHub)
• qooxdoo (Website, GitHub)
• SmartClient (Website, GitHub)
• Webix (Website, GitHub)
• WinJS (Website, GitHub)

No longer actively developed

• Ample SDK (Website, GitHub)
• Glow (Website, GitHub)
• iX Framework (Website, GitHub)
• Lively Kernel (Website, GitHub)
• Script.aculo.us (Website, GitHub)
• YUI Library (Website, GitHub)

Pure JavaScript/Ajax

• Google Closure Library (Website, GitHub)
• Joose (Website, <a href=https://github.com/Joose/Joose" target="_blank">GitHub)
• jsPHP (Website, GitHub)
• Microsoft's Ajax library (Website)
• MochiKit (Website, GitHub)
• PDF.js (Website, GitHub)
• Rico (Website, SourceForge)
• Socket.IO (Website, GitHub)
• Spry framework (Website, GitHub)
• Underscore.js (Website, GitHub)

Template systems

• Cascade Framework (Website, GitHub)
• Handlebars (Website, GitHub)
• jQuery Mobile (Website, GitHub)
• Mustache (Website, GitHub)

Unit testing

• Jasmine (Website, GitHub)
• Mocha (Website, GitHub)
• QUnit (Website, GitHub)
• Unit.js (Website, GitHub)

Web-application related (MVC, MVVM)

• AngularJS (Website, GitHub)
• Backbone.js (Website, GitHub)
• Cappuccino (Website, GitHub)
• Chaplin.js (Website, GitHub)
• Echo (Website, GitHub)
• Ember.js (Website, GitHub)
• Enyo (Website, GitHub)
• Ext JS (Website, GitHub)
• Google Web Toolkit (Website, GitHub)
• JavaScriptMVC (Website, GitHub)
• Knockout (Website, GitHub)
• Meteor (Website, GitHub)
• MooTools (Website, GitHub)
• Prototype JavaScript Framework (Website, GitHub)
• React.js (Website, GitHub)
• Rialto Toolkit (Website)
• SproutCore (Website, GitHub)
• Wakanda Framework (Website, GitHub)

Other

• Modernizr (Website, GitHub)