# Cytoscape.js

JavaScript graph theory library for visualizing and analyzing networks in browsers or on Node.js.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/cytoscape/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04
Listed since: 2026-11-04

## Record

### Links

- home: https://js.cytoscape.org
- repository: https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js
- docs: https://js.cytoscape.org
- plugins: https://js.cytoscape.org/#extensions

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: The Cytoscape Consortium
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2012
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: graphics
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: not applicable
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-15

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 11266
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 24704988
- contributors: 143
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 5456
- dependentPackages: 259

### Sources

- urls: https://js.cytoscape.org (read 2026-11-04)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/cytoscape/cytoscape.js (read 2026-11-04)
- urls: https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js/blob/v3.34.4/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- maintainer: https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js/blob/v3.34.4/LICENSE (read 2026-11-04)
- category: https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js/blob/v3.34.4/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/cytoscape/cytoscape.js (read 2026-11-04)
- runtime: https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js/blob/v3.34.4/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- installMethod: https://js.cytoscape.org (read 2026-11-04)
- installMethod: https://js.cytoscape.org (read 2026-11-04)
- license: https://js.cytoscape.org (read 2026-11-04)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js/releases/tag/v3.34.4 (read 2026-11-04)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/cytoscape/cytoscape.js/releases/latest (read 2026-11-04)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/cytoscape (read 2026-11-04)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/cytoscape/cytoscape.js (read 2026-11-04)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/cytoscape/cytoscape.js/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-11-04)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-10-26:2026-11-01/cytoscape (read 2026-11-04)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/cytoscape (read 2026-11-04)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/cytoscape (read 2026-11-04)
- urls: https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js/blob/v3.34.4/README.md (read 2026-11-04)

## Notes

Cytoscape.js is a graph theory library for modeling networks and drawing them as graphs. Its README describes two settings for it: server-side analysis in a Node.js app, and an interactive graph in a user interface. It is installed with npm or loaded from a CDN, and its maintainer is The Cytoscape Consortium, the name the LICENSE copyright line gives.

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