jsLab.xyz — a side-project archive

Archive note (2025): Both jslab.xyz and blog.jslab.xyz are no longer online. This post is kept as a record of an early side-project.

Back in 2015 I was spending most of my spare time on JavaScript and Node.js, and I had a growing pile of small experiments — JSON tools, string utilities, word toys — scattered across half a dozen repos. jsLab was the umbrella I built to put them in one place.

#What it was for

The site had three jobs:

• Research and notes. Write up things I learned while pushing JavaScript and Node.js further than my day-job needed.
• Showcase small tools. Host the JSON / string / word utilities so they had a real home, not just a localhost:3000.
• Connect with other JS folks. Have somewhere to point people when they asked what I worked on after hours.

#Where it was heading

The roadmap I had in mind at the time:

• JavaScript and Node.js as the core
• Realtime systems
• DevOps, Cloud, and Docker
• Open source
• Big Data and data science

In practice, most of those threads ended up in this blog and in standalone GitHub repos rather than under a single jsLab brand, and the domain was eventually retired.

#Original links

For reference (now offline):

• Homepage: http://jslab.xyz
• Blog: http://blog.jslab.xyz