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Delightful npm packages that make you say "wow, didn't know that was possible!" PRs welcome!

peer-to-peer
- peerwiki (https://www.npmjs.com/package/peerwiki) - all of wikipedia on bittorrent
- simple-peer (https://www.npmjs.com/package/simple-peer) - send video/voice/data p2p in the browser (with webrtc)
- torrent-docker (https://www.npmjs.com/package/torrent-docker) - realtime boot of remote docker images over bittorrent
- torrent-mount (https://www.npmjs.com/package/torrent-mount) - mount a torrent as a filesystem
- webtorrent (https://www.npmjs.com/package/webtorrent) - streaming torrent client for node & the browser

browserify
- brfs (https://www.npmjs.com/package/brfs) - turn fs.readFileSync() calls into inlined static assets
- browser field spec (https://gist.github.com/defunctzombie/4339901) - replace certain files/modules when a module is bundled for the browser
- browserify (https://npmjs.org/package/browserify) - use require() in the browser
- glslify (https://github.com/stackgl/glslify) - npm modules compiled into WebGL shaders
- webworkify (https://www.npmjs.com/package/webworkify) - composable web workers for browserify

files
- file-type (https://www.npmjs.com/package/file-type) - detect file content types by checking their magic numbers
- fuse4js (https://www.npmjs.com/package/fuse4js) - write filesystem driver in js

geometry
- alpha-shape (https://www.npmjs.com/package/alpha-shape) - any dimensional alpha shapes (think "concave" hull)
- box-intersect (https://www.npmjs.com/package/box-intersect) - fast any dimensional box intersection detection
- convex-hull (https://www.npmjs.com/package/convex-hull) - robust any dimensional convex hull
- delaunay-triangulate (https://www.npmjs.com/package/delaunay-triangulate) - robust any dimensional delaunay triangulation
- surface-nets (https://www.npmjs.com/package/surface-nets) - extracts level sets in any dimension
- voronoi-diagram (https://www.npmjs.com/package/voronoi-diagram) - any dimensional voronoi diagrams
- voxelize (https://www.npmjs.com/package/voxelize) - voxelize a mesh

hardware
- cylon (https://www.npmjs.com/package/cylon) - command robots, devices, and more from node

images
- indico.io (https://www.npmjs.com/package/indico.io) - facial emotion recognition and facial feature extraction
- trackingjs (https://trackingjs.com/) - computer vision on the web

sound
- doppler (https://github.com/DanielRapp/doppler) - detect motion with the doppler effect using only the microphone and speakers
- speak.js (https://github.com/mattytemple/speak-js) - text-to-speech on the web

streams
- strip-html (https://www.npmjs.com/package/strip-html) - strip html from a stream

text
- diff (https://www.npmjs.com/package/diff) - show text differences
- franc (https://www.npmjs.com/package/franc) - detect the language of text
- indico.io (https://www.npmjs.com/package/indico.io) - political sentiment analysis
- node-tesseract (https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-tesseract) - A simple wrapper for the Tesseract OCR package
- normit (https://www.npmjs.com/package/normit) - Google translate text & speak it
- ocrad.js (https://www.npmjs.com/package/ocrad.js) - OCR in Javascript via Emscripten
- pullquoter (https://www.npmjs.com/package/pullquoter) - pull interesting quotes out of an article
- sbd (https://www.npmjs.com/package/sbd) - split text into sentences
- sentiment (https://www.npmjs.com/package/sentiment) - basic sentiment analysis

terminal
- minimist (https://www.npmjs.com/package/minimist) - simple argument parser
- progress (https://www.npmjs.com/package/progress) - create a simple terminal progress bar
- terminal-menu (https://www.npmjs.com/package/terminal-menu) - create retro terminal menus
- vantage.js (https://github.com/dthree/vantage) - CLI + SSH + REPL for Node
- cash (https://github.com/dthree/cash) - Cross-platform Linux commands in pure ES6

virtual machines
- jsemu (https://github.com/fcambus/jsemu) - A list of emulators written in the JavaScript
- jslinux (https://www.npmjs.com/package/jslinux) - x86 emulator for running Linux, written in JavaScript
- jvm (https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-jvm) - java virtual machine in pure node.js
- doppio (https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio) - actively updated jvm in node.js, written in TypeScript

misc
- bell.js (https://www.npmjs.com/package/bell.js) - real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series.
- bitcoinjs-lib (https://www.npmjs.com/package/bitcoinjs-lib) - bitcoin client for node & the browser
- fastparallel (https://www.npmjs.com/package/fastparallel) - zero overhead parallel function calls
- google-distance (https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-distance) - calculate travel distance between two locations on earth using Google Maps' API
- qr-image (https://www.npmjs.com/package/qr-image) - generate QR codes

meta-programming

- notevil (https://www.npmjs.com/package/notevil) - javascript javascript interpreter, useful for running untrusted code safely.

mad scientists (people)
- Mikola Lysenko (https://www.npmjs.com/~mikolalysenko) - linear algebra, computational geometry, WebGL
- Dominic Tarr (https://www.npmjs.com/~dominictarr) - streams, distributed systems
- Elijah Insua (https://www.npmjs.com/~tmpvar) - NC machines, CAD/CAM
- Mathias Buus (https://github.com/mafintosh) - torrents in node, fuse bindings, data replication
- Feross Aboukhadijeh (https://github.com/feross) - webtorrent, bittorrent, p2p hacks
- Max Ogden (https://github.com/maxogden) - streams, voxels, data replication

License

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To the extent possible under law, Feross Aboukhadijeh (http://feross.org) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

madscience Github: https://github.com/feross/awesome-mad-science