Use Jump Point Search over A*?

[Darthfett]

If it's possible, we should look into using Jump Point Search algorithm over A*, it seems to perform much better.

Demonstration

Article

[andrewrk]

This looks like a winner to me

[rom1504]

There is a npm module related to this https://github.com/qiao/PathFinding.js
but it seems it's only made for 2D

[ghost]

A* seems to be faster by about 0.4ms on my Safari instance for OS X.