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Fourier

:wavy_dash: Fourier transform in JavaScript

From drom·Updated October 11, 2025·View on GitHub·

Pure JavaScript library discrete transforms, including [Discrete Fourier Transform](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_Fourier_transform) (DFT); It's fast, inverse, and special forms. The project is written primarily in JavaScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2015. Key topics include: fft, fourier, hacktoberfest.

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Fourier

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Pure JavaScript library discrete transforms, including Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT); It's fast, inverse, and special forms.

Use

Node.js

npm i fourier
js
var fourier = require('fourier');

Browser

html
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fourier/fourier.min.js"></script>

Functions

FFT custom

Fast Fourier transform (FFT). Cooley–Tukey algorithm. in-place. Radix-2, Decimation in Time (DIT).

One function for each data type, vector size and coding style

js
fourier.custom.fft_<type>_<size>_<style>
  • data type: f32 or f64
  • vector size: 16, 32, ... 1048576
  • coding style: 'raw' or asm

example:

js
// Init var stdlib = { Math: Math, Float32Array: Float32Array, Float64Array: Float64Array }; // Create heap for the fft data and twiddle factors var heap = fourier.custom.alloc(65536, 3); // Create instance of FFT runner var fft_f64_65536_asm_runner = fourier.custom.fft_f64_65536_asm(stdlib, null, heap); // Init twiddle factors fft_f64_65536_asm_runner.init(); // Run transformations fft_f64_65536_asm_runner.transform();

Other

js
fourier.dft(realArray, imagArray); // ⇒ [realArray, imagArray]

$$\large X_k=\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}x_n\cdot e^{-i 2 \pi k n/N}$$

js
fourier.idft(realArray, imagArray); // ⇒ [realArray, imagArray]

$$\large x_n=\frac{1}{N}\sum_{k=0}^{N-1}X_k\cdot e^{i 2 \pi kn/N}$$

Testing

npm test

License

MIT LICENSE.

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