Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Mobiscroll is a wheel scroller/Date and Time picker jQuery plugin for touch devices (Android phones, iPhone, iPad, Galaxy Tab). The control can easily be customized to support any custom values and can even be used as an intuitive alternative to the native select control (dropdown list).

The control is themable. You can easily change the appearance of if in CSS. It also comes with pre-defined, nice looking color schemes. It has been tested on iOS4, Android 2.2, Android 2.3, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE9.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://code.google.com/p/mobiscroll/
License: MIT License

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Candy is a JavaScript-based multi-user chat client. There are plenty of web-based chat clients out there. Most of them are built to emulate your instant messenger. They offer you tons of settings. Candy is different. It’s built for your community.

Candy focused on real-time multi-user chatting. It is easy to configure, easy to run, easy to use. It is highly customizable and 100% well-documented. And it is used and approved in a productive environment with up to 400 concurrent users. It works with all major web browsers including IE7.

Requirements: Javascript Framework
Demo: http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/
License: MIT License

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jQuery.fracs determines the fraction of an HTML element that is currently in the viewport, as well as the fraction it takes of the complete viewport and the fraction of the area that might possibly be visible. It also provides the coordinates of the visible rectangle in document, element and viewport space.

It makes users easier to jump to different sections of your website. It is very suitable for one-page website or website with a lot of scrolling. jQuery.fracs is provided under the terms of the MIT License.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://larsjung.de/fracs/
License: MIT License

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TameJS from the creators of OkCupid, is an extension to JavaScript, written in JavaScript, that makes event programming easier to write, read, and edit. Tame is very easy to use in Node and other V8 projects. And it can be dropped into projects where desired – no need to rewrite any existing code.

They have written hundreds of thousands of lines of purely async code at OkCupid, and their code has stayed manageable, even after 8 years of development. Note Tame is not an attempt to dumb down async programming. It’s just a cleaner way to write it. Further, your programs will likely have lower latency; with Tame it’s a lot easier to keep parallel calls parallel.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://tamejs.org/
License: MIT License

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Chosen is a javascript plug-in makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors. Instead of forcing your users to scroll through a giant list of items, they can just start typing the name of the item they were looking for.

Add Chosen’s files to your app and then add the class chzn-select to your select box. Chosen automatically respects optgroups, selected state, the multiple attribute and browser tab order. You don’t need to do anything else except customize the style as you see fit.

Requirements: jQuery or Prototype Framework
Demo: http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
License: MIT License

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PDFKit is a PDF document generation library for Node that makes creating complex, multi-page, printable documents easy. It is written in pure CoffeeScript, but you can choose to use the API in plain ‘ol JavaScript if you like.

The API embraces chainability, and includes both low level functions as well as abstractions for higher level functionality. The PDFKit API is designed to be simple, so generating complex documents is often as simple as a few function calls.

Requirements: Node.js
Demo: http://devongovett.github.com/pdfkit/
License: MIT License

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The Wall enables to create an endless grid. You choose the number of elements, The Wall will see to the rest. Every moment you may know the position of your wall or move it where you like better by clicking or dragging it.

With The Wall you decide the position of your contents punctually. Every plug is ready to hold your contents, pictures, videos, texts, everything. With The Wall you may have an endless grid or an original draggable coda slider, if you like better.

Requirements: Mootools Framework
Demo: http://wall.plasm.it/
License: MIT License

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Buzz is a small but powerful Javascript library that allows you to easily take advantage of the new HTML5 audio element. It degrades properly on non-modern browsers. It is written by Jay Salvat and licensed under the MIT License.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://buzz.jaysalvat.com/demo/
License: MIT License

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CSS3 transitions are easy to implement, more performant than the setTimeout based alternative & because of this work really well on mobile devices. However, it is not as flexible as the Javascript alternatives is easing functions.

Libraries such as jQuery & Scripty2 have a suite of really compelling functions that just aren’t available with CSS transitions. So, here we have Morf, a Javascript work-around for hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions with custom easing functions.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.joelambert.co.uk/morf/
License: MIT License

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Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface.

Paper.js is easy to learn for beginners and has lots to master for intermediate and advanced users. Paper.js is developed by Jürg Lehni & Jonathan Puckey, and distributed under the permissive MIT License.

Requirements: Browsers support Canvas and EcmaScript 5
Demo: http://paperjs.org/
License: MIT License

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