$ show NorthwoodsSoftware/GoJS
GoJS is a commercial JavaScript/TypeScript diagramming library for building interactive graphs, flowcharts, org charts, and data-visualization editors in the browser. This repository is the distribution/SDK point: it ships prebuilt core bundles (release/go.js, release/go-module.js, release/go-debug.js, release/go.mjs), TypeScript declarations (release/go.d.ts), and an extensive extension kit in both classic script (extensions/) and ES-module/TypeScript (extensionsJSM/) forms. The actual core source tree is excluded (src/ is git-ignored); users consume GoJS as an npm package or script tag and build diagram templates with a fluent API backed by GraphLinksModel/TreeModel JSON data. In production the library is a model-driven rendering and editing engine: applications push node/link data into a go.Model, declarative templates and bindings map that data to Parts, and GoJS handles canvas/SVG rendering, layout, hit-testing, undo/redo, selection, and interactive tools. There are no server endpoints or standalone executables. The extension kit is intentionally sample-grade: every file warns that APIs can change in point releases and advises copying code into the consumer's project. Despite that, the extensions demonstrate sophisticated, well-structured algorithmsβcircle/rectangle packing, distance-transform heatmaps, quadtree spatial indexing, SCC-based swimlane routing, and table/flow layoutsβand follow consistent patterns such as option-object constructors, transaction-safe mutations, and clone-protected subclasses. No test suite is present, and the same extension is duplicated across TS, ESM JS, and classic JS, creating drift risk. License is not open-source: evaluation, non-commercial, and commercial tiers are defined in the license HTML files.
The LLM identified 5 files worth highlighting for reuse:
A generic quadtree for storing rectangles, points, and segments with intersection/containment queries, dynamic subtree growth/splitting/merging, and edge-case handling for zero-width/height objects. It is nearly self-contained and can be lifted into any spatial-indexing use case outside GoJS, demonstrating careful tree-balancing and query-optimization craft.
A data-agnostic packing layout that operates on an IBounded interface instead of go.Node, making it usable for arbitrary bounded objects. It implements Wang et al. circle packing, the Matousek-Sharir-Welzl smallest-enclosing-circle algorithm, segment-based perimeter rectangle packing with quadtree collision detection, and skip-fit optimization between non-sequential segments. This is a strong, extensible algorithm module for geometric layout problems.
Computes a scalar intensity field over a viewport using exact Manhattan or chamfer-based approximate Euclidean distance transforms, then renders it through cached Float32Array and ImageData buffers with only changed regions uploaded. The design avoids per-frame allocations and can be adapted to any canvas-based overlay or raster heat-map feature, not just GoJS diagrams.
A sophisticated swimlane graph layout with orthogonal link routing. It uses Tarjan's strongly-connected-components algorithm to isolate cycle blocks, exhaustive branch-and-bound search with admissible pruning for small blocked subgraphs, occupancy-grid placement, and route-shape evaluation for corridors and ports. While GoJS-coupled, it is a drop-in diagram layout that shows exceptional algorithm organization and heuristic tuning.
Builds a live HTML table inspector for GoJS model data, with declarative property descriptors (type, choices, read-only, default value), multi-object union/intersection editing, and static predicates such as showIfNode/showIfLink. It is self-contained and uses a clean configuration-driven design that could serve as a generic model-data property editor in other diagramming or entity-editing applications.