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Of course seeing the examples of JQuery and Lodash raises the question, how do I know which libraries

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exist,

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is there a page where all libraries are listed?

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That's not really the case.

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There is a page, npmjs.com which is basically a repository of Javascript packages

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but it's not really a page where you would just go and browse around,

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that's not the core idea,

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this is more like a lookup resource if you already know a certain library, like Lodash and you then

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want to get more information about it

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and it's especially useful if you want include it in a more complex Javascript project which you're managing

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differently, something we'll cover in the tooling section

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but what we're not doing right now.

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So this is not really a page where you would go and actively search for new interesting Javascript

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libraries,

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instead it typically works such that you have a certain problem which you want to solve and you just

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google for the problem,

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for example Javascript sendHttpRequest.

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We want to send a Javascript HttpRequest and we don't know how that works or we know that it works

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with XMLHttpRequest which is also what we find here but we're not too sure how that worked.

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Well typically if you then browse around and for example you go to Stack Overflow which is a great forum

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for discussing programming questions, we might get some ideas on how we can send a request and at some

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point of time, somewhere you'll find some alternatives to the native APIs,

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for example here JQuery is mentioned. Now turns out JQuery is not just there to help you work with

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the DOM,

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indeed it also makes sending HttpRequests a bit easier

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but if you search around a bit more and maybe you read this blog post and programming is a lot about

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reading and searching, you will learn about another library and that would be Axios

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and that indeed is a really popular library for sending HttpRequests. So your next step then should be

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to search for something like axios.js

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and here you find the Axios Github page. Github is a page, a platform where open source projects can be

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managed, so where other people can share their projects and their code and you can actually collaborate

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there and work together on a project,

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a really great page. Now most popular libraries or basically all libraries also do have a Github repository

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so you can even look into the code of these projects

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if you wanted to.

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More importantly than that, at least if you are getting started, you can also find further resources there

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on the starting page.

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Here for example, you learned how you can install Axios, how you use it and a rough overview of what it

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is

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and here for example, you find a CDN link that would allow you to include Axios and then you could

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use it to send HttpRequests

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and this is how you discover new libraries and how you can learn more about them.

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There isn't a single page but it really is like a lot in programming,

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a lot about googling, reading and Github, Github is really a great resource to learn more about projects

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and especially to learn more about Javascript libraries.