cdnjs/cdnjs
Cdnjs
cdnjs is a free, community-maintained content delivery network that hosts thousands of open-source frontend libraries. It delivers popular JavaScript and CSS assets from a global CDN to speed up website performance and reduce server load, with each library version stored as an immutable snapshot under a predictable directory structure.
The platform provides a RESTful JSON API for programmatic access to library metadata, version details, and search functionality. This API returns structured data with HTTP cache headers, including immutable version details cached for nearly a year and library metadata refreshed every six hours. A unified error handling system returns structured JSON objects with appropriate status codes.
Library submissions are managed through a Git repository with an automated pipeline that validates, minifies, and deploys assets via pull requests. Assets are stored directly on disk without a database, and distributed across multiple CDN providers for global availability and redundancy. The platform also provides access to basic CDN usage statistics and validates permitted file extensions for upload and delivery.
Features
- Library CDN Loaders - Delivers popular JavaScript and CSS libraries from a global CDN to speed up website performance.
- Open Source Frontend Libraries - Hosts and serves static assets for thousands of community-maintained open-source frontend libraries.
- Library Metadata Retrievers - Provides an API endpoint to fetch metadata and latest version assets for any library.
- Versioned Library Hierarchies - Organizes all hosted libraries by name and version in a predictable directory hierarchy for direct URL access.
- Library Listing Endpoints - Provides an API endpoint listing all libraries with optional name-based search filtering.
- Name-Based Search Endpoints - Provides an API endpoint to search libraries by name for matching entries.
- Library Metadata Endpoints - Serves library metadata and version details via a RESTful JSON API with HTTP cache headers for programmatic access.
- Asset Hosting Services - Hosts and serves static assets for thousands of open-source JavaScript and CSS libraries with versioned URLs.
- Library Metadata Retrievers - Provides an API endpoint to fetch metadata and latest version assets for any library.
- Immutable Version Retrievals - Serves immutable snapshots of each library version with URLs cached for nearly a year.
- Version-Sorted Directories - Structures library directories by semantic version to enable direct URL access to specific releases.
- Immutable Version Retrievers - Provides an API endpoint returning immutable version details cached for nearly a year.
- UI Asset Serving - Serves web library files from a global content delivery network to accelerate page loads for websites.
- Library Metadata Retrievers - Provides an API endpoint to fetch metadata and latest version assets for any library.
- CDN Delivery Services - Provides a free, community-maintained CDN for frontend libraries used by developers in web projects.
- Library Metadata APIs - Serves library metadata and version details via a RESTful JSON API with cache headers.
- Library Search and Discovery - Provides a search API to find and browse thousands of available frontend libraries by name.
- Flat-File Storage - Stores library files directly on disk without a database for simplified replication and serving.
- API Cache Header Configurations - Serves library metadata via a RESTful JSON API using HTTP cache headers for performance.
- Multi-Provider Distributions - Distributes assets across multiple CDN providers for global availability and redundancy.
- Git-Triggered Deployment Pipelines - Validates, minifies, and deploys library submissions through an automated pipeline triggered by Git pull requests.
- Pull-Request-Based Asset Managers - Manages library versions and updates through a Git repository with pull-request-based contributions.
- Long-Term Version Caches - Caches library version details for nearly a year by treating each version as immutable.
- Build Automation Pipelines - Processes library submissions through an automated pipeline that validates, minifies, and deploys assets.
