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Top 14 JavaScript Mad Science Projects
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Project mention: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-14
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Project mention: A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-14
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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webcat
Mad science p2p pipe across the web using webrtc that uses your Github private/public key for authentication and a signalhub for discovery
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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).
JavaScript Mad Science discussion
JavaScript Mad Science related posts
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A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers
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JsPDF: Generate PDFs on the Client-Side with Just JavaScript
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WebTorrent: Fast Streaming Torrent Client for the Web
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Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
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Chris Wanstrath "defunkt" GitHub cofounder and former CEO is banned on GitHub
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I Moved My Blog from IPFS to a Server
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WebTorrent – JavaScript torrent Streaming In browser
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A note from our sponsor - SurveyJS
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Mad Science projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | webtorrent | 30,238 |
| 2 | PDFKit | 10,287 |
| 3 | isomorphic-git | 7,763 |
| 4 | peerflix | 6,233 |
| 5 | BitcoinJS | 5,887 |
| 6 | GitTorrent | 4,753 |
| 7 | js-git | 3,838 |
| 8 | stackgl | 2,247 |
| 9 | image-to-ascii | 1,616 |
| 10 | limdu | 1,054 |
| 11 | peercast | 518 |
| 12 | webcat | 452 |
| 13 | torrent-docker | 319 |
| 14 | peerwiki | 318 |
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