Everything about JavaScript library

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: JavaScript libraryA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Regl-Scatterplot: A Scalable Interactive JavaScript-based Scatter Plot LibraryInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Art of SeoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: jsPsych: A JavaScript library for creating behavioral experiments in a Web browserCited 1,422 times
5. Go sideways: Comparison of JavaScript-based web frameworksA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Web frameworkA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• jsPsych: A JavaScript library for creating behavioral experiments in a Web browser

  Joshua R. de Leeuw · 2014 · Behavior Research Methods · 1,422 citations

• BioCircos.js: an interactive Circos JavaScript library for biological data visualization on web applications

  Ya Cui, Xiaowei Chen, Huaxia Luo · 2016 · Bioinformatics · 140 citations

• jsPhyloSVG: A Javascript Library for Visualizing Interactive and Vector-Based Phylogenetic Trees on the Web

  Samuel A. Smits, Cleber C. Ouverney · 2010 · PLoS ONE · 76 citations

• phylotree.js - a JavaScript library for application development and interactive data visualization in phylogenetics

  Stephen D. Shank, Steven Weaver, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond · 2018 · BMC Bioinformatics · 65 citations

• The Simplicity of Modern Audiovisual Web Cartography: An Example with the Open-Source JavaScript Library leaflet.js

  Dennis Edler, Mark Vetter · 2019 · KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information · 43 citations

• Detecting locations in JavaScript programs affected by breaking library changes

  Anders Møller, Benjamin Barslev Nielsen, Martin Toldam Torp · 2020 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 30 citations

• Health figures: an open source JavaScript library for health data visualization

  Andres Ledesma, Mohammed Al-Musawi, Hannu Nieminen · 2016 · BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making · 30 citations

• Creating Engaging Online Learning Material with the JSAV JavaScript Algorithm Visualization Library

  Ville Karavirta, Clifford A. Shaffer · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies · 24 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Regl-Scatterplot: A Scalable Interactive JavaScript-based Scatter Plot Library

  Fritz Lekschas · 2023 · Journal of Open Source Software · 6 citations

• SODA: a TypeScript/JavaScript library for visualizing biological sequence annotation

  Jack W Roddy, George T Lesica, Travis J Wheeler · 2022 · NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics · 5 citations

• Naview: A d3.js Based JavaScript Library for Drawing and Annotating Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Membrane Diagrams

  Marcelo Querino Lima Afonso, Néli José da Fonseca Júnior, Thainá Godinho Miranda · 2022 · Frontiers in Bioinformatics · 5 citations

• TypeNFuzz: Dynamic Type-aware Object Dependence Graph-Guided Fuzzing for JavaScript Library Bug Discovery

  Yishun Zeng, Yue Wu, Chao Zhang · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 3 citations

• REACT JS - A JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY

  · 2024 · International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology and Science · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Art of SeoEric Enge, Stephan Spencer · 2009
• Reliable JavaScriptLawrence D. Spencer · 2015
• Adobe AIR 1.5 CookbookDavid Tucker, Marco Casario · 2008
• ASP.NET ajax in actionAlessandro Gallo, Alessandro Gallo · 2007
• Learning JavaScriptEthan Brown · 2007
• jQuery cookbookCody Lindley · 2009
• Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and ReduxAlex Banks, Eve Porcello · 2017
• Hacking with ReactPaul Hudson · 2016

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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