describe JS (NPM) shacl tools

[VladimirAlexiev]

cc @tpluscode @amivanoff
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=shacl has a lot of useful tools.
Below is a rough list, but we need to find the git repos, and add all attributes needed by "awesome.
Add category "SHACL Compact".

Already have:

• shacl-engine
• (@zazuko/shacl-playground: this is just to make links to their Playground)
• shacl-language-server

JavaScript/Typescript SHACL validators

• @rdfc/shacl-processor-ts
• @google/schemarama: parse JSON-LD, Microdata, RDFa. Validate ShEx and SHACL.

FAKES? Reported as spam at https://www.npmjs.com/support

• doloresenim - A fast RDF/JS SHACL engine
• doloribuseos - A fast RDF/JS SHACL engine
• doloremexpedita - A fast RDF/JS SHACL engine (this repo doesn't exist)
• These look the same
• If you look at https://github.com/HiramTremblay?tab=repositories and https://github.com/GeoffreyBreitenberg?tab=repositories, there are a lot of repos with weird names. This is either an attempt to build a "portfolio" on Github, or LLM generated, or malicious.
• Even the names @HiramTremblay, @GeoffreyBreitenberg, @ElenorDickinson are fishy. Guys, if I have wronged you, please speak out!

SHACL Compact:

• @comunica/actor-rdf-serialize-shaclc, @comunica/actor-rdf-parse-shaclc
• @jeswr shaclc-write, shaclc-parse

Querying / Inference

• @tpluscode clownface-shacl-path
• @hydrofoil/shape-to-query - Generate SPARQL queries from SHACL Node Shapes.
• @jeswr construct-inferences-shacl - Construct queries to do inferencing on SHACL constraints.

Declarative UIs

• @ulb-darmstadt/shacl-form
• @hydrofoil/shaperone-rdf-validate-shacl
• @hydrofoil/shaperone-wc - Web Component rendering SHACL forms.
• @hydrofoil/shaperone-core - Base processor of SHACL Shape intended to build forms
• @jordi-c/solid-fef-cli - Solid Front end Form (sfef): a command line interface for creating forms on Vue/Angular frameworks from SHACL.
• @jeswr shacl-form-react - A HTML5 form generator for any SHACL constraint compliant to the W3C standard.
• @brinxmat shacl-jsonforms - SHACL-to-JSONForms converter.
• @Babibubebon vue-shacl-form - Vue.js component for HTML5 form generation based on SHACL.

Convertors

• @jeswr/shacl2shex
• @comake/shacl-to-json-schema
• @oslo-flanders/shacl-template-generator - Generates a SHACL template based on an OSLO JSON-LD file (OSLO is a spec for data exchange in eGovernment).
• @pheyvaer merweb - Generate SHACL shapes and vocabularies from Mermaid class diagrams.
• @siqueirarenan shacl-jsonschema-converter - Convert SHACL to JSON Schema.
• @jiaoxlong json-schema-ld and jsc-ld - represent JSON schema in RDF (RDF Schema) and RDF shapes in SHACL.
• @minorg shaclmate - Generate TypeScript from SHACL shapes.
• @zazuko/rdf-markdown-shacl - Extract RDF from markdown using SHACL shapes. No documentation but a very interesting idea.

IDEs

• @BruJu shacled-turtle - Code Mirror Turtle language support with autocompletion.

Developer tools

• @minorg shacl-ast - Abstract Syntax Tree for SHACL.
• @zazuko/shacl-test - Runs SHACL shapes against a set of positive and negative test cases (data graphs).
• @pietercolpaert extract-cbd-shape - Extract an entity based on Concise Bounded Description (CBD: same algorithm usually used in SPARQL DESCRIBE) and a SHACL shape
• @tpluscode/shacl-cli - Node CLI to validate RDF

[ktk]

The fakes look fake to me

[jeswr]

@smessie you have some JS tooling / websites that aren't listed here; perhaps you want to add them as well?

[tpluscode]

Happy to add some of my work. Off the top of my head:

@tpluscode/shacl-cli

I do not think it deserves the list

@hydrofoil/shaperone-*

Shaperone is included already. No point listing individual packages

[VladimirAlexiev]

@tpluscode so the Shaperone repo already describes those packages?

[bergos]

I also stumbled over the fishy packages listed under fakes recently. More of them can be found with a reverse dependency search on npm. I checked if I can automatically detect these packages, but I may create a manual list and report them in the meantime. I don't know why they have been created and if they are harmful, but hopefully, it's easy to get rid of them as they are clearly copyright violations.

[tpluscode]

@tpluscode so the Shaperone repo already describes those packages?

More or less. I've started work on long-overdue docs overhaul. Anyway, I find the project a whole without the necessity to split hairs

[smessie]

@smessie you have some JS tooling / websites that aren't listed here; perhaps you want to add them as well?

Thanks for the mention @jeswr.

Following might be interesting to add if it fits the scope:

• FormGenerator (GitHub - Demo): An app to generate a basic declarative form description by using a drag-and-drop interface. You can choose between the UI ontology, SHACL, and RDF-Form as ontology. Choosing SHACL allows you to build shapes in this way.
• FormRenderer (GitHub - Demo): An app to fill out a form by rendering its declarative form description as HTML in the browser. Allows for easy data entry by the use of an UI.
• FormCli (GitHub): An app to fill out a form by rendering its declarative form description as text on the command line.