Top 7 JavaScript Science Projects

stdlib

9 4,001 10.0 JavaScript

✨ Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js. ✨

Project mention: Node still seems better than python after all this time for web server speed but.. | /r/node | 2023-06-20

Numpy is a library - node.js has plenty of them, what is missing? There is stdlib package that offers optimized math functions, for example.

covid19_scenarios

1 1,366 0.0 JavaScript

Models of COVID-19 outbreak trajectories and hospital demand
SurveyJS

surveyjs.io sponsored

Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
sciencefair

1 596 0.0 JavaScript

The futuristic, fabulous and free desktop app for working with scientific literature :microscope: :book:
Sandboxels

11 133 9.9 JavaScript

Sandboxels is an in-browser falling sand simulation game, with mechanics such as heat simulation, electricity, density, chemical reactions, fire, and over 500 unique elements to play with.

Project mention: R74n | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23

It may be better to post the project https://sandboxels.r74n.com/ instead of the whole site. Do you want to post it?

peerreview

7 51 9.0 JavaScript

A diamond open access (free to access, free to publish), open source scientific and academic publishing platform.

Project mention: Request for Feedback: An open-source, open-access, community governed academic publishing platform that crowdsources review using reputation | /r/AskAcademia | 2023-06-28

Hey everyone, I'm an experienced software engineer from an academic family. I've been aware of the problems in academic publishing for most of my life, and for the last several years I've been running headlong into the paywalls as I work on municipal policy advocacy. I've been pondering software solutions to this problem for a long time. This is exactly the sort of problem internet based software is, in theory, best suited to solving: sharing and discussing information. It should be possible to build a web platform that allows academia to share work, collect feedback, organize review that maintains quality, and find relevant papers with out relying on private, for-profit journal publishers. It should be possible to build and run a web platform that handles all of academic publishing for 1% of the current cost of for-profit publishing or less - which would (in theory) allow the universities to keep it funded while allowing it to be free to publish and free to access. Hell, it could probably be run lean enough that individual academics could fund it through small dollar donations. There's really no good reason to allow the private publishers to charge academia $11 billion a year while keeping 80% of the work locked behind paywalls. I've had several ideas for how to approach the problem, and I spent the last year building out a beta of one of them as a side project. Software development is experimental and iterative. It only works when the developers are able to get active feedback from the people most effected by the problems they are trying to solve. So I'm reaching out for feedback on the beta, and on possible paths forward. The web platform that I've built enables crowdsourced peer review of academic papers. It uses a reputation system (similar to StackExchange) and ties reputation to a field/concept tagging system. Submitted papers must be tagged with 1 - n fields, and only peers who have passed a reputation threshold in one of the tagged fields may offer review. Review is also split into two phases: pre-publish and post-publish. Pre-publish review is author driven. It's focused on collaborative, constructive feedback and uses an interface heavily inspired by both Github Pull Requests and Google Docs. Post-publish review is much closer to traditional review, and is focused on maintaining the integrity of the literature by filtering out spam, misinformation, fraud, and poorly done work. Reputation is mostly gained and lost through voting that happens during post-publish review. Reputation can also be gained by offering particularly constructive pre-publish reviews. All reviews are open and published alongside the papers. Post-publish review is on-going. That's iteration one. As much as I believe review could be crowdsourced, it seems pretty clear that going straight from what we have to this platform would be a huge leap. So I have ideas for how to build a journal overlay on top of the crowdsourced review system that would allow editors to manage teams of reviewers and run their journals through the platform. This would allow them to take advantage of the review interface, and would still give authors the benefit of being able to have a conversation with their reviewers. Authors would then be able to choose to submit their papers to one or more journals, crowdsourced review, or both. Building that out is the next project. Right now I'm working on this as a side project and an experiment -- could a web platform like this work? Would people even use it? If the answer turns out be yes, I'd love for it to become a non-profit, multi-stakeholder cooperative. Essentially independent public infrastructure similar to Wikipedia, only more transparent and more clearly democratically governed. I would love feedback on all aspects of this project - both the current crowdsourcing iteration and the thought to build a generic, open platform for diamond open access journals to run their operations through. Could you ever see yourself using something like this to publish? What about to collect pre-print review? Could you see yourself reviewing through it? What about submitting to journals through it? Are there other approaches to building a web platform that might work better? Am I barking up the wrong tree? Should I press forward, abandon, or is there a better tree? You can find the beta platform here: https://peer-review.io The source here: https://github.com/danielbingham/peerreview And more details about exactly how it works (in its current iteration) here: https://peer-review.io/about Maintaining an open roadmap here: https://github.com/users/danielBingham/projects/6/views/1

Projectile-Motion-Simulation

1 5 0.0 JavaScript

A simple projectile motion simulator made made using matter.js , it looks cool and ofc gonna help you see physically accurate projectile motion
UUC

1 1 3.2 JavaScript

Ultimate Unit Converter, a useful tool for science and engineering http://jira.zby.cz/content/UUC/
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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).