Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript?

Posted by jibly on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @09:54AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Looking to learn Javascript and build some cool stuff for my startup http://www.traction.vc

Before learning it though, I'd like to get inspired about what's possible. Thus collecting a list of cool stuff built with Javascript. What cool apps/websites/experiments that you know of have been built with Javascript? List them here.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by faehnrich on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @10:31AM (#8850992)

I wanted to learn JavaScript, so I made a few small programs.

Fallout Hacker Helper http://faehnri.ch/fhh/ - a utility to help with the hacking mini game in Fallout 3

WRAP http://faehnri.ch/wrap/ - Web Register Assembly Programming, a browser version of Daniel Dennett's RAP machine, a simple register machine and language he uses for some theory of mind concepts (read his Intuition Pumps)

Disrupt Inspiration http://faehnri.ch/disrupt-inspiration/ - something I made quick after a friend and I were joking about startups. Generate startup ideas in the form of "X, but for Y." Submit ideas!

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by jibly on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @11:22AM (#8851380)

very cool little programs. like it!

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by mtmail on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:26PM (#8853741)

Vector map rendering (https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-js/) editors (https://atom.io/) data visualization (https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery) compressing data (https://www.npmjs.com/package/gzip-js) image manipulation (https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=jpeg)

My point is: almost anything can be build with Javascript.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by jibly on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @07:51PM (#8854399)

Point made. Im inspired.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by logn on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:46PM (#8853861)

SilkJS is neat and much of it is written in JavaScript (the rest is C++) -- http://silkjs.net/ "SilkJS is a command shell built on top of Google's v8 JavaScript engine, highly optimized for server-side applications"

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by jurgenwerk on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @06:54PM (#8854145)

I made a jQuery plugin for drawing really sweet donuts: https://github.com/matixmatix/sweet_donut

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by rubiquity on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @01:24PM (#8852219)

StatsD[0] is pretty awesome and probably the only server side JS tool I would ever use.

0 - https://github.com/etsy/statsd/

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by jibly on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @01:44PM (#8852368)

tnx for sharing

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by picozu on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @10:25AM (#8850948)

Picozu www.picozu.com/editor/, HTML5 image editor built in Js with the help of some 3rd party jQuery libs.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript? by jibly on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @11:24AM (#8851395)

wow that looks pretty sophisticated.

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