Looking to learn Javascript and build some cool stuff for my startup http://www.traction.vc<p>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.
I wanted to learn JavaScript, so I made a few small programs.<p>Fallout Hacker Helper <a href="http://faehnri.ch/fhh/" rel="nofollow">http://faehnri.ch/fhh/</a> - a utility to help with the hacking mini game in Fallout 3<p>WRAP <a href="http://faehnri.ch/wrap/" rel="nofollow">http://faehnri.ch/wrap/</a> - 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)<p>Disrupt Inspiration <a href="http://faehnri.ch/disrupt-inspiration/" rel="nofollow">http://faehnri.ch/disrupt-inspiration/</a> - 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!
Vector map rendering (<a href="https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-js/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-js/</a>)
editors (<a href="https://atom.io/" rel="nofollow">https://atom.io/</a>)
data visualization (<a href="https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery</a>)
compressing data (<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/gzip-js" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/gzip-js</a>)
image manipulation (<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=jpeg" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=jpeg</a>)<p>My point is: almost anything can be build with Javascript.
SilkJS is neat and much of it is written in JavaScript (the rest is C++) -- <a href="http://silkjs.net/" rel="nofollow">http://silkjs.net/</a> "SilkJS is a command shell built on top of Google's v8 JavaScript engine, highly optimized for server-side applications"
I made a jQuery plugin for drawing really sweet donuts: <a href="https://github.com/matixmatix/sweet_donut" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/matixmatix/sweet_donut</a>
StatsD[0] is pretty awesome and probably the only server side JS tool I would ever use.<p>0 - <a href="https://github.com/etsy/statsd/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/etsy/statsd/</a>