Issue #607  (JS Utils, Media, AI Tools)03/06/25

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Now on to this week's tools!

JavaScript Utilities

upfetch — An advanced fetch client builder with standard schema validation, automatic response parsing, and smart defaults, designed to make data fetching type-safe and developer-friendly while keeping the familiar fetch API.

Human Regex — A human-friendly regular expression builder with English-like syntax, with features like an intuitive builder pattern with chainable methods, common pattern validators, and support for all regex flags.

Languine — An AI-powered npm package that allows you to translate your app into 100+ languages with ability to make updates based on Git diffs, all done via the command line.

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Viselect — A high-performance and lightweight library to add a visual way of selecting elements, similar to a desktop experience, with zero dependencies and support for major frameworks.

tinygradient — A fast and small gradient manipulation library built on top of TinyColor, allowing you to programmatically generate color gradients with an unlimited number of color stops and steps, using RGB or HSV interpolation.

trimMiddle — A utility that shortens strings like Finder on Mac does, trimming the string in the middle, instead of start or end, and adding an ellipsis, or other character of your choice.

dockview — A dependency-free layout manager that supports tabs, groups, grids, and splitviews, with support for React, Vue, and Vanilla TypeScript.

caravan — A flexible, transport-based logging system for JavaScript/TypeScript applications.

Fraction.js — A rational numbers library that effectively addresses precision issues in JavaScript.

Media Tools (SVG, Audio, etc.)

Chiptune.js — A JavaScript library that can play module music files using a simple API and features like pause/resume, ability to play local and remote files, volume control, and more.

Phase — A no-code animation tool for UI/UX prototyping, with collaboration features, a clean UI, import for SVG and export in Lottie formats.

Filter — A powerful, web-based image editor that provides a modern, intuitive interface for quick image edits and filters, optimized for both desktop and mobile devices.

Animated Emoji — The official repository of all things related to animating Noto Emoji, the Google Font of emoji characters, all searchable and can be exported in Lottie format.

litegraph.js — A JavaScript library to create graphs in the browser that can be integrated easily in any existing web applications and graphs can be run without the editor.

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Waveform Renderer — A lightweight and customizable TypeScript library for rendering audio waveforms on an HTML canvas, to create beautiful, interactive audio visualizations with ease.

Freesound — A collaborative, searchable collection of 650,000+ free sounds in WAV format, under different licenses for commercial use, use with attribution, etc.

Aha Icon — An online all-in-one favicon generator that lets you add your own text, adjust border radius, background color, gradient, font settings, with export to PNG or ICO in 5 different sizes.

SVG Shape Generator — A simple tool to customize and generate SVG shapes and blobs, with ability to adjust the 'blob-iness', color, and more.
 

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AI Tools, ChatGPT, etc.

surf.new — A playground for testing web agents powered by Steel.dev, to experience how different AI agents can surf and interact with the web just like humans do.

Claude Code — An agentic coding tool for your terminal that understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling Git workflows. all through natural language commands.

Cherry Studio — A desktop client that supports multiple LLM providers, and is available on Windows, Mac and Linux.

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AI Video Starter Kit — A powerful starter kit for building AI-powered video applications, built with Next.js, Remotion, and fal.ai, to simplify the complexities of working with AI video models in the browser.

Open Deep Research — An AI-powered research assistant that performs iterative, deep research on any topic by combining search engines, web scraping, and large language models.

OpenAI Go — Official Go library for the OpenAI API to provide convenient access to the OpenAI REST API from applications written in Go.

Gemini Search — A Perplexity-style search engine powered by Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model with grounding through Google Search, providing AI-powered answers to your questions with real-time web sources and citations.

bolt.diy — The official open source version of Bolt.new, enabling you to prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web applications using any LLM you want.

Chorus —  A Mac app that lets you chat with a bunch of AIs on your desktop, with support for GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 3.5, Gemini Flash, Deepseek, OpenRouter, and any local open source model running on your system.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds