Projects

The OpenJS Foundation hosts some of the most important projects in the JavaScript ecosystem. As a neutral non-profit organization, our goal is to provide a home where projects can build and support a sustainable community of diverse contributors.

“The OpenJS Foundation has been a great home for projects [...] I’m proud to have ESLint listed alongside some of the most important and influential projects in the JavaScript ecosystem.”

Nicholas C. Zakas, Creator of ESLint

Overview

We strongly believe in sharing best practices and reducing redundant administrative work across projects, particularly when it comes to non-technical governance.  To that end we have the Cross Project Council, or CPC, to centralize coordination among projects as well as certain technical governance and moderation processes.  One of the CPC’s primary functions will be to oversee the progression of projects between stages of their lifecycles.

Hosted Projects

Projects hosted by the OpenJS Foundation fall into one of four categories. The CPC oversees an Incubation process for projects which seek to be hosted by the OpenJS Foundation. The project lifecycle is documented in the Project Progression proposal.

Impact Projects

  • Appium

    Appium is an open-source, Node.js server used for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS, Android and the Universal Windows Platform.

  • Dojo

    Dojo is a progressive TypeScript framework for building modern web apps with a focus on developer ergonomics.

  • Electron

    Electron is a framework to build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

  • jQuery

    jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.

  • Node.js

    Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.

  • webpack

    webpack is a bundler for modules and is primarily used to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser. It is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.

At-Large Projects

  • AMP

    AMP allows any publisher to have pages load quickly on mobile devices.

  • architect

    architect offers a simplistic plaintext manifest and npm script based workflows for creating, deploying, working offline and more with cloud functions.

  • ESLint

    ESLint is an open source project originally created by Nicholas C. Zakas in June 2013. Its goal is to provide a pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.

  • Esprima

    Esprima is a high performance, standard-compliant ECMAScript parser written in ECMAScript (also popularly known as JavaScript).

  • Express

    Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.

  • Fastify

    Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture.

  • Globalize

    Globalize is a JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that leverages the official Unicode CLDR JSON data.

  • Grunt

    Grunt is a JavaScript command line utility designed to help automate repetitive project tasks such as minification, compilation, unit testing, linting and deployment.

  • Interledger.js

    Interledger.js enables instant payments and micropayments in any currency, across many payment networks using the Interledger Protocol (ILP).

  • Intern

    Intern is a complete test stack for JavaScript or TypeScript designed to help you write and run consistent, high-quality test cases for your JavaScript or TypeScript libraries and applications.

  • NativeScript

    NativeScript empowers developers to access native APIs from JavaScript directly.

  • JerryScript

    JerryScript is a lightweight, fully-featured JavaScript engine for Internet of Things devices, which implements the full ECMAScript 5.1 standard bringing the approachability and power of JavaScript to the IoT space and supports on-device compilation, execution and provides access to peripherals from JavaScript.

  • Jest

    Jest is a delightful JavaScript Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity.

  • LoopBack

    A highly extensible Node.js and TypeScript framework for building APIs and microservices.

  • Lodash

    Lodash is a modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras. Lodash makes JavaScript easier by taking the hassle out of working with arrays, numbers, objects, strings, etc.

  • Marko

    Marko is a friendly (and fast!) UI library that makes building web apps with reactive UI components fun!

  • messageformat

    messageformat is a mechanism for handling both pluralization and gender in your applications. It can also lead to much better translations, as it’s designed to support all the languages included in the Unicode CLDR.

  • Mocha

    Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript testing framework providing a command-line interface for Node.js as well as in-browser project testing capabilities.

  • Moment

    Moment is a lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates and it also provides much needed time zone support to JavaScript through Moment Timezone.

  • Node-RED

    Node-RED is a flow-based programming environment built on Node.js — commonly used in the IoT space — and aimed at creating event-driven applications that can easily integrate APIs and services.

  • nvm

    Node Version Manager (nvm) is a POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active Node.js versions.

  • QUnit

    QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript unit testing framework. It’s used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code, including itself.

  • WebdriverIO

    A Node.js bindings implementation for the W3C WebDriver protocol.

  • webhint

    webhint is a linting tool for the web, with a strong focus on the developer experience: easy to configure, develop, and well documented.

Incubation Projects

  • Ajv

    The fastest JSON Schema validator for Node.js and browser.

  • kepler.gl

    Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.

  • vis.gl

    Vis.gl is a suite of composable, interoperable open source geospatial visualization frameworks centered around deck.gl.

Emeritus Projects

  • Chassis

    Chassis is creating open standards designed for CSS libraries, JavaScript UI libraries, and web developers in general. This project will define standards for markup and class names for common widgets and patterns, as well as an implementation of those standards.

  • HospitalRun

    HospitalRun is built to provide the most modern hospital information system possible to the least resourced environments.

  • jQuery Mobile

    jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive web sites and apps that are accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.

  • jQuery UI

    jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of jQuery. Whether you're building highly interactive web applications, or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

  • Pointer Events Polyfill

    PEP polyfills pointer events in all browsers that haven't yet implemented them, providing a unified, responsive input model for all devices and input types.

  • RequireJS

    RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader. It is optimized for in-browser use, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node.

  • Sizzle

    A pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine designed to be easily dropped in to a host library.

Project Funding Opportunities

All funding received through OpenJS Foundation membership dues is used to support various programs that benefit our hosted projects, and to run the Foundation.  This funding is administered by the Board of Directors, which is comprised of elected community leaders and member company representatives.

The OpenJS Foundation recognizes that in addition to supporting the general activities of the OpenJS Foundation (through membership, event sponsorship, and certification), some organizations may wish to contribute additional monetary funding to the OpenJS Foundation for activities that benefit specific projects or initiatives.

OpenJS Foundation members who are current on their annual dues may contribute additional amounts of incremental monetary funding to specific OpenJS Foundation initiatives, such as roadshows, Cross Project Council activities, or project infrastructure. Directed monetary funding activities must be approved by the OpenJS Executive Director, and are subject to the following annual limits:

Platinum members: No cap on directed monetary funding
Gold members: Capped at 50% of annual dues amount
Silver members: Capped at 25% of annual dues amount


The Board of Directors may approve exceptions on a case-by-case basis.

Please note that these limits only apply to incremental monetary funding contributed directly to the OpenJS Foundation.  Aside from OpenJS Foundation membership and the incremental monetary funding described above, we strongly encourage organizations to invest in the health and sustainability of the community at large by employing contributors, encouraging and supporting employees as they grow into leadership roles, running local meetups, and open sourcing their projects.