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Top 23 JavaScript File Projects
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Project mention: Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-14
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/20097
Almost certainly something a smaller team would have never caught, given that a team with a massive name behind them didn't.
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As stated in its documentation “html2pdf.js converts any webpage or element into a printable PDF entirely client-side using html2canvas and jsPDF.”
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Papa Parse
Fast and powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input
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PDF Make
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ai-renamer
A Node.js CLI that uses Ollama and LM Studio models (Llava, Gemma, Llama etc.) to intelligently rename files by their contents
Project mention: Show HN: AI Renamer – Rename your files with AI | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-11 -
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Project mention: How to Handle File Uploads with Node.js and Express - Multer Edition | dev.to | 2025-05-12
In our previous guide, we showed how easy it is to handle file uploads using express-fileupload. Multer brings additional flexibility and control:
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Meteor-Files
🚀 Upload files via DDP or HTTP to ☄️ Meteor server FS, AWS, GridFS, DropBox or Google Drive. Fast, secure and robust.
📁 Blob Storage: While there are no official packages, There is a well-established packages meteor-files by Veliov Group. Which lets you pload files to AWS, GridFS, DropBox or Google Drive.
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actions-for-nautilus
An extension to the Gnome "Files" file manager that allows you to add arbitrary actions to the file selection context menu.
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UNITADE.md
A plugin for note-taking app Obsidian which allows you to treat any file extension as markdown note-file
One of the nice things about Obsidian is its extensive plugin ecosystem for people who want additional features. Case and point, there's been an extension to do this almost as long as Obsidian has been around:
https://github.com/Falcion/UNITADE.md
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Project mention: skeletor VS simple-scaffold - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/theGeekist/skeletor | 2025-05-23
Great scaffolder but doesn't have a snapshot feature
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backup-github-repo
Backup all the issues and pull requests of a Github repo, including the comments, events, and labels, as JSON and as HTML
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gpt-contextfiles
vscode extension, add a file, ask gpt3.5 with all the files you pass into it up to 16k tokens
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source File projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PDF.js | 51,706 |
| 2 | jsPDF | 30,508 |
| 3 | Papa Parse | 13,163 |
| 4 | pdfmake | 12,069 |
| 5 | copy-webpack-plugin | 2,857 |
| 6 | globby | 2,593 |
| 7 | ai-renamer | 1,964 |
| 8 | express-fileupload | 1,554 |
| 9 | react-uploady | 1,188 |
| 10 | Meteor-Files | 1,113 |
| 11 | jBinary | 545 |
| 12 | lolisafe | 335 |
| 13 | actions-for-nautilus | 245 |
| 14 | UNITADE.md | 115 |
| 15 | filemanager | 104 |
| 16 | simple-scaffold | 58 |
| 17 | backup-github-repo | 47 |
| 18 | jquery.filebrowser | 37 |
| 19 | HMSC | 28 |
| 20 | filenest | 15 |
| 21 | gpt-contextfiles | 14 |
| 22 | fs | 3 |
| 23 | xopp-merger-app | 3 |
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