Simple 3D Javascript Particles Engine

Sparks.js is a library to help create 3D particles in Javascript.

Its simple, fast and fun to play with.

This is an ongoing project, so check out issue tracker, the wiki, the code and examples inside github.

Sparks.js welcomes feature and pull requests, so don't be shy to fork away!

It uses three.js for Vector classes and rendering and uses ease functions from tween.js.

Demos Online

• http://jabtunes.com/labs/arabesque/
• http://jabtunes.com/itcameupon/

Examples Online

• Particle Tests
• Brillance Particles + Custom Shapes
• Realtime Sparks.js Editor by Jerome Etienne

Articles

• Article on Sparks.js by Jerome Etienne
• Presentation on Sparks.js by Jerome Etienne

Upcoming features

• Text Particles
• ShotCounter

Spark.js: Lightweight 3D particle engine in JavaScript

Validatious 2.0: Unobtrusive JavaScript form validation

60 Top jQuery Plugins of 2013

fullPage.js

A simple and easy to use plugin to create fullscreen scrolling websites. (also known as single page websites) It allows to create fullscren scrolling websites as well as adding some landscape sliders inside the sections of the site.
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SlideMe

A responsive, css3, compatible (works fine even with IE7), customizable, easy to install (and use), multi-instance, fullscreen, cool, powerful slideshow plug-in for jQuery.
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Tabslet

Yet another jQuery plugin for tabs with some extra features like custom events, rotation and animation.
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Textillate.js

A simple plugin for CSS3 text animations.Textillate.js combines some awesome libraries to provide an easy-to-use plugin for applying CSS3 animations to any text.
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Snap.svg

SVG is an excellent way to create interactive, resolution-independent vector graphics that will look great on any size screen. And the Snap.svg JavaScript library makes working with your SVG assets as easy as jQuery makes working with the DOM.
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Maplace.js

A small jQuery Plugin for Google Maps
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Scrolld.js

Scrolld.js is a unique open source plugin for jQuery. Scrolld.js provides a method for highly precise scrolling for pixel-perfect layouts and navigation using real-time updated data values. With Scrolld.js your scrolling to items will always be exact and will always provide the best user experience. Scrolld.js is specifically designed to support responsive designs and turns navigating long pages into a simple task.
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Free Wall

Freewall is a cross-browser and responsive jQuery plugin to help you create many types of grid layouts: flexible layouts, images layouts, nested grid layouts, metro style layouts, pinterest like layouts … with nice CSS3 animation effects and call back events. Freewall is all-in-one solution for creating dynamic grid layouts for desktop, mobile and tablet.
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One Page Scroll

One Page Scroll let you transform your website into a one page scroll website that allows users to scroll one page at a time. It is perfect for creating a website in which you want to present something to the viewers.
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Flowtype.js

Ideally, the most legible typography contains between 45 and 75 characters per line. This is difficult to accomplish for all screen widths with only CSS media-queries. FlowType.JS eases this difficulty by changing the font-size—and subsequently the line-height—based on a specific element’s width. This allows for a perfect character count per line at any screen width.
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Albumize

Albumize is a jQuery plugin that lets you manage collection of images in the web page as albums. With albumize, you can browse albums, add cover image to albums and switch between albums.
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Smint

Smint is a simple jQuery plugin that helps with the navigation on one page style websites.It has 2 main elements, a sticky navigation bar that stays at the top of the page while you scroll down and menu buttons that automatically scroll the page to the section you clicked on.
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Loda Button

jQuery plugin that animates the button icon with CSS3 when loading
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Scrollocue

Scrollocue is a jQuery plugin for building a simple autocue/teleprompter system, to scroll through lines of text.Walk through the autocue text with the arrows, space bar or just click.
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floatlabels.js

On User Interaction with an input field the placeholder value moves up, and is displayed above the typed text.
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jQuery Label Better

Label your form input like a boss with beautiful animation and without taking up space
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Tabulous.js

A jQuery tabs module for todays web.Tabulous.js can be used with any contents you choose in the tabs and it couldn’t be more simpler to use.
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Headroom.js

Headroom.js is a lightweight, high-performance JS widget (with no dependencies!) that allows you to react to the user’s scroll. The header on this site is a living example, it slides out of view when scrolling down and slides back in when scrolling up.
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jQuery Knob

Nice, downward compatible, touchable, jQuery dial.Implemented interactions : mouse click and wheel mouse, keyboard (on focus) and fingers (touch events).
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jQuery Gridly

Gridly is a jQuery plugin to enable dragging and dropping as well as resizing on a grids. In the example below try tapping or dragging any of the bricks.
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FloatLabel.js

A jQuery plugin for floating form labels.As FloatLabel.js works by using CSS classes, the animations can be tweeked within jquery.FloatLabel.css.If the default classes conflict with the rest of your CSS for whatever reason, you can change them by passing in paramaters when you initialise the plugin. Don’t forget to update jquery.FloatLabel.css with your new class names if you need to make a change.
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Succinct

A tiny jQuery plugin for truncating multiple lines of text.
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JResponsive

A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized layout to any page or element, customize the layout the way you want with or without top,right,left or bottom navigations
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Salvattore

A jQuery Masonry alternative with CSS-driven configuration.Salvattore distributes your grid items according to the number of columns you specify. Each of the items in your grid is placed within these columns, one by one.
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FlexNav

FlexNav is a mobile-first example of using media queries and javascript to make a decent multi-level menu with support for touch, hover reveal, and keyboard tab input accessibility. Special attention is paid to touch screens using tap targets (the key feature of FlexNav).
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Sidr

Sidr is a jQuery plugin for creating side menus and the easiest way for doing your menu responsive.
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jQuery ScrollNav

A jQuery plugin for building a scrolling side navigation menu
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ScrollUp

ScrollUp is a lightweight jQuery plugin to create a customisable “Scroll to top” feature that will work with any website, with ease.
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ContentShare

ContentShare is a jQuery plugin which lets you share the exact content on a page which you actually want to share. It enables you to share selected text on your social network rather the default text specified in the meta tags.
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Formance.js

A jQuery library for formatting and validating form fields, based on Stripe’s jQuery.payment library.
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slideToucher

slideToucher, touch enabled jQuery plugin for content swiping. Supports vertical and horizontal swipes.
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FilmRoll

FilmRoll is a lightweight jQuery carousel (8.4 kb) that focuses on one item at a time, centering it in the view, regardless of the relative sizes of the carousel items.
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Block Slide

A CSS3 Animated Modal Window Image Gallery jQuery Plugin
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typeahead.js

Inspired by twitter.com’s autocomplete search functionality, typeahead.js is a fast and fully-featured autocomplete library.
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Squishy

Squishy is a jQuery plugin that automatically resizes text to exactly fit the container with no extra work on your part.
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stickUp

A simple plugin that “sticks” an element to the top of the browser window while scrolling past it, always keeping it in view. This plugin works on multi-page sites, but has additional features for one-pager layouts.
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Glide.js

Glide is responsive and touch-friendly jQuery slider. Based on CSS3 transitions with fallback to older broswers. It’s simple, lightweight and fast. Designed to slide, no less, no more.
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Riot.js

An incredibly fast, powerful yet tiny client side framework for building large scale web applications.
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slidr.js

A simple, lightweight javascript library for adding slide transitions to your page. No dependencies required.
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Query Popdown Plugin

Sometimes you just need a little popdown to spice up your interface. Here are a few examples:
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Offline.js

Offline.js is a library to automatically alert your users when they’ve lost internet connectivity, like Gmail.
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CircleType.js

Circletype.js is a tiny (2.7kb) jQuery plugin that lets you set type on a circle
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jQuery Valideasy

Never write complex JS script again to handle your form validation rules! With Valideasy, everything’s done via HTML attributes added to your form fields.
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DropzoneJS

DropzoneJS is an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews.
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Odometer

Odometer is a Javascript and CSS library for smoothly transitioning numbers.
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Rainyday.js

A simple script for simulating raindrops falling on a glass surface.
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TogetherJS

TogetherJS is a free, open source Javascript library by Mozilla that adds collaboration features and tools to your website. By adding TogetherJS to your site, your users can help each other out on a website in real time.
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pace.js

Include pace.js and the theme css of your choice, and you get a beautiful progress indicator for your page load and ajax navigation.No need to hook into any of your code, progress is detected automatically.
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AnimateScroll

AnimateScroll is a jQuery plugin which enables you to scroll to any part of the page in style by just calling the animatescroll() function with the Id or Classname of the element where you want to scroll to.
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CLNDR.js

CLNDR is a calendar plugin that uses HTML templates, allowing you to write custom markup and styles that have access to useful calendar data.
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selectize.js

Selectize is an extensible jQuery-based custom UI control. It’s useful for tagging, contact lists, country selectors, and so on. It clocks in at around ~7kb (gzipped). The goal is to provide a solid & usable experience with a clean and powerful API.
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favico.js

Make a use of your favicon with badges, images or videos
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animo.js

A powerful little tool for managing CSS animations. Stack animations, create cross-browser blurring, set callbacks on animation completion, make magic.
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Chart.js

Easy, object oriented client side graphs for designers and developers
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CollagePlus

This plugin for jQuery will arrange your images to fit exactly within a container. You can define the padding between images, give the images css borders and define a target row height.
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elementTransitions.js

This repository is a wrapper around the code provided by a codrops article on page transitions. Their code has been modified to allow more than one animatable element per page. Additionally, you can now add transitions straight from html tags.
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Progression.js

A jQuery plugin that gives users real time hints & progress updates as they complete forms.
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HeapShot

jQuery HeapShot plugin is an image gallery plugin with a particular effect.
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Flat Shadow

A small jQuery plugin that will automatically cast a shadow creating depth for your flat UI elements
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Intro.js

Better introductions for websites and features with a step-by-step guide for your projects.
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15 jQuery CSS Plugins to Speed Up Your Coding

1. Stickup

Stickup is a simple jQuery plugin that “sticks” an element to the top of the browser window while scrolling past it, always keeping it in view. This plugin works on multi-page sites, but has additional features for one-pager layouts.
Although stickUp was made to work on any kind of website, it was originally designed for the “one-pager” style of websites. By using CSS the sticky navigation menu item will be highlighted as it’s correlating content is scrolled in and out of view.

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2. CircleType.js

Circletype.js is a lightweight , tiny jquery plugins that helps you to set type on a circle. Its quite useful and only 2.7 kb jquery plugin. It has numerous features such as it uses any font, adjust letter spacing as usual with CSS, flip it around so it reads counter-clockwise instead, set the radius manually or let CircleType.js figure it out for you, work in fluid and responsive layouts and plays well with FitText.js.

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3. Glide.js

Glide.js is a lightweight (4.5kb minified) jQuery plugin for creating sliders. It has completely customizable OOCSS markup and uses CSS3 transitions but has fallback to JavaScript. The slider is responsive; it’ll adapt well to all devices and comes with touch support.

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4. Animo.js

Animo.js is a powerful little tool for managing CSS animations. It includes features like Stack animations, create cross-browser blurring, set callbacks on animation completion. Animo includes the amazing animate.css library by Dan Eden which provides you with nearly 60 beautiful animations from attention seekers to entrances and exits. He has also added a few helper animations to the library.
Animo’s only dependency is jQuery 2 or later. The source includes animate.css plus the helper animations made specifically for animo but you can use whatever stylesheet of animations you’d like.

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5. Salvattore

Salvattore is a jQuery Masonry alternative with CSS-driven configuration. Salvattore organizes your HTML elements according to the number of columns you specify. Each of the items in your container is placed within these columns, one by one. To get started simply add a data-columns attribute to the container.
In your CSS file you can set the number of columns you want to be created inside that element. To create a responsive columnar design, just use media queries. Items are appended and prepended on the same container without conflicts. You can combine this API with your XHR functions to have a dynamic layout with live content.

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6. Mixit Up

MixItUp is a light-weight but powerful jQuery plugin that provides beautiful animated filtering and sorting of categorized and ordered content. It plays nice with your existing HTML and CSS, making it a great choice for fluid, responsive layouts. It’s perfect for portfolios, galleries, blogs, or any categorized or ordered content.
MixItUp uses jQuery to decide which elements to hide, show or re-position based on your filters, and then applies the power of CSS3 transitions to smoothly animate these elements to their new locations. MixItUp is optimized for the current generation of modern, CSS3-ready browsers. Due to its light-weight and efficient approach, It works beautifully and smoothly on all modern devices including smartphones and tablets.

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7. Fancy Input

Fancy Input, a jQuery plugin, doesn’t focus on the styling part but makes the fields attractive (and fun-to-use) by adding CSS3-powered effects. The plugin hides the input field, places a span element containing the character pressed and applies CSS3 transitions to each element (letter). There are multiple built-in effects and it works with both input + textarea fields.

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8. Transit

Transit is a super-smooth CSS transitions & transformations for jQuery. You can make transition on any CSS property. They will happen much smoother than if you were to use jQuery’s default .animate(). You can easily translate, rotate, scale, skew and etc.
Transit degrades older browsers by simply not doing the transformations (rotate, scale, etc) while still doing standard CSS (opacity, marginLeft, etc) without any animation. Delays and durations will be ignored. It is released under MIT License.

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9. CSS Emoticons

The CSS Emoticons plugin is a simple jQuery plugin (and stylesheet) that allows you to turn any text emoticons on the page into cute little smiling faces with pure CSS3 styling (no images whatsoever). The result is great-looking emoticons that leave the text exactly as written (so that the text emoticons actually get copied and pasted with the text if you select a block of text from the page). This uses the CSS3 properties, transform, border-radius, box-shadow, gradient, and transition (when supported).

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10. Minimit Anima

Minimit Anima is a jQuery plugin to animate with transforms and transitions. It’s hardware accelerated css3 animations which is built to have fast animation execution, and it has an api similar to jquery animate, with animations queuing.
By default the anima method do automatic fallback animation on browsers not supporting transitions or transformed. It also does scale, rotate and skew animations on browsers without transitions from jquery.transform.js already included in the plugin.

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11. Tooltipster

Tooltipster is a powerful, flexible jQuery plugin enabling you to easily create semantic, modern tooltips enhanced with the power of CSS. Tooltipster allows you to use any HTML tag you can think of inside your tooltips. This means you can insert things like images and text formatting tags.

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12. ScrollUp

ScrollUp is a lightweight jQuery plugin to create a customisable “Scroll to top” feature that will work with any website, with ease. To create a visible line to help determine an ideal scroll distance from the top, assign a valid CSS color to the activeOverlay setting.

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13. Textillate.js

Textillate.js is a simple plugin for CSS3 text animations. Textillate.js combines some awesome libraries to provide an ease-to-use plugin for applying CSS3 animations to any text. Simply include textillate.js and it’s dependencies in your project to start creating unique effects. Textillate.js is built on top of the simple, yet amazingly powerful animate.css and lettering.js libraries.

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14. Motio

Motio is a jQuery plugin for simple but powerful sprite based animations and panning. Motio is called on an element representing animation container, where animation is delivered as a CSS background image.
In sprite based animations, container should have the dimensions of one sprite frame. E.g, if you have 10 frames in a horizontal sprite that is 1000 x 100 pixels big, the container should be 100 x 100 pixels big. In panning, container size doesn’t play any role, just the background image should be seamless.

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15. Photobox

Photobox is a CSS3 Image Gallery JQuery Plugin. It is beautiful and posses a great look & feel. Both the script & CSS are only 7k each. It uses silky-smooth, hardware accelerated, CSS3 transitions and animations for better performance.
It works also on IE9 and above, but clearly not as nice as in normal browsers. Image can be zoomed in and out with mousewheel and navigated using mousemove to move around. The bottom row of thumbnails can be navigated by mouse movement. It supports keyboard keys for navigation and closing the gallery view.

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Soulmate: Develop a fast autocomplete feature

Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting - extracted from SeatGeek

Soulmate

Soulmate is a tool to help solve the common problem of developing a fast autocomplete feature. It uses Redis's sorted sets to build an index of partially completed words and the corresponding top matching items, and provides a simple sinatra app to query them. Soulmate finishes your sentences.

Soulmate was designed to be simple and fast, and offers the following:

• Provide suggestions for multiple types of items in a single query (at SeatGeek we're autocompleting for performers, events, and venues)
• Results are ordered by a user-specified score
• Arbitrary metadata for each item (at SeatGeek we're storing both a url and a subtitle)

An item is a simple JSON object that looks like:

{
  "id": 3,
  "term": "Citi Field",
  "score": 81,
  "data": {
    "url": "/citi-field-tickets/",
    "subtitle": "Flushing, NY"
  }
}

Where id is a unique identifier (within the specific type), term is the phrase you wish to provide completions for, score is a user-specified ranking metric (redis will order things lexicographically for items with the same score), and data is an optional container for metadata you'd like to return when this item is matched (at SeatGeek we're including a url for the item as well as a subtitle for when we present it in an autocomplete dropdown).

See Soulmate in action at SeatGeek.

Cheet.js: Easter eggs made easy

easy easter eggs (konami code, etc) for your website.