JavaScript

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General

  • idiomatic.js - Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript. This is a living document and new ideas for improving the code around us are always welcome. Contribute: fork, clone, branch, commit, push, pull request.

Concepts

Specs

Tools

  • Grunt: a task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects.

APIs

DOM

Libraries

  • Laconic DOM Library - Laconic offers an intuitive approach to generating DOM content in JavaScript. Laconic adds a method to the $.el namespace for all known HTML Elements. These methods should be invoked with a variable-length list of child elements, strings, numbers, or arrays containing these types. An optional attributes object may be passed as the first argument.
  • rangy - A cross-browser JavaScript range and selection library. It provides a simple standards-based API for performing common DOM Range and Selection tasks in all major browsers, abstracting away the wildly different implementations of this functionality between Internet Explorer up to and including version 8 and DOM-compliant browsers.

JSON

Tools

Libraries

  • JSAN - JavaScript Archive Network

CDN

Frameworks

Packages and modules

  • Jam. For front-end developers who crave maintainable assets, Jam is a package manager for JavaScript. Unlike other repositories, we put the browser first by using AMD modules.
  • RequireJS [2] is a JavaScript file and module loader. It is optimized for in-browser use, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.
  • Ender is a full featured package manager for your browser. It allows you to search, install, manage, and compile front-end javascript packages and their dependencies for the web. We like to think of it as NPM's little sister. Ender is not a JavaScript library. It's not a jQuery replacement. It's not even a static asset. It's a tool for making the consumption of front-end javascript packages dead simple and incredibly powerful.
  • volo - A JavaScript dependency manager and project creation tool that favors GitHub for the package repository. Written in JavaScript for JavaScript.

Google Closure

  • The Closure Library is a broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library. You can pull just what you need from a large set of reusable UI widgets and controls, and from lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data structures, unit testing, rich-text editing, and more.

Baskbone.js

  • Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
Articles
Docs
Related
  • Backbone UI provides a simple way to represent your Backbone Models and Collections as UI components. The need to shuffle data in and out of your UI is replaced with simple data binding techniques. All components are skinnable with CSS, and will render consistently accross browsers.
  • Recline.js - Building on Backbone, Recline supplies components and structure to data-heavy applications by providing a set of models (Dataset, Record/Row, Field) and views (Grid, Map, Graph etc).
  • Btapp.js provides access to a browser plugin version of uTorrent/BitTorrent via a tree of Backbone Models and Collections. The intent of this project is to allow access to the extensive functionality of a torrent client, from web apps that are as simple as a single Backbone View.

YUI

  • YUI is a free, open source JavaScript and CSS framework for building richly interactive web applications.

CommonJS

  • CommonJS - JavaScript spec does not define a standard library that is useful for building a broader range of applications. The CommonJS API will fill that gap by defining APIs that handle many common application needs, ultimately providing a standard library as rich as those of Python, Ruby and Java. The intention is that an application developer will be able to write an application using the CommonJS APIs and then run that application across different JavaScript interpreters and host environments.

Ext JS

Other

  • Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.
  • OxJS is Ox.js, a general-purpose utility library. It embraces functional programming, supports modules, provides lots of tools to deal with dates, has all the missing math methods (plus some more for geographic coordinates) and helper functions for strings and regular expressions, fixes type detection and equality testing, includes utilities to handle HTML, the DOM and remote requests, can tokenize and minify JavaScript, comes with its own documentation format, including inline tests, and does many other cool things. Then there are modules, most notably Ox.UI, which provides a simple but flexible model to write complex, desktop-class web applications for HTML5-compliant browsers.
  • cujo is an architectural framework for next generation JavaScript applications. It encourages highly modular development, declarative application assembly, and embraces the asynchronous nature of JavaScript and its fusion of object-oriented and functional programming styles. cujo’s extensible architecture and use of industry standards allows it to work seamlessly with your current application framework -- and adapt easily to your next.
  • Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux, and Backbone.js's suspenders.
  • Udon is a library providing basic support for functional programming idioms in JavaScript.
  • mustache.js is an implementation of the mustache template system in JavaScript. Mustache is a logic-less template syntax. It can be used for HTML, config files, source code - anything. It works by expanding tags in a template using values provided in a hash or object.
    • Handlebars.js is an extension to the Mustache templating language created by Chris Wanstrath. Handlebars.js and Mustache are both logicless templating languages that keep the view and the code separated like we all know they should be.
  • Walrus is a templating library inspired by mustache, handlebars, ejs and friends, but with a couple of important differences in philosophy and style
  • Cappuccino is built on top of standard web technologies like JavaScript, and it implements most of the familiar APIs from GNUstep and Apple's Cocoa frameworks. When you program in Cappuccino, you don't need to concern yourself with the complexities of traditional web technologies like HTML, CSS, or even the DOM.
  • Seed is a library and interpreter, dynamically bridging (through GObjectIntrospection) the WebKit JavaScriptCore engine, with the GNOME platform. Seed serves as something which enables you to write standalone applications in JavaScript, or easily enable your application to be extensible in JavaScript.
  • Montage simplifies rich HTML5 application development by providing modular components, real-time two-way data binding, CommonJS dependency management, and more.

Storage

  • jStorage is a simple wrapper plugin for Prototype, MooTools and jQuery to cache data (string, numbers, objects, even XML nodes) on browser side. Note that functions, DOM nodes, host objects and such can not be saved.

jStorage was first developed under the name of DOMCached but since a lot of features were dropped to make it simpler (like the support for namespaces and such) it was renamed. DOMCached had separate files for working with Prototype and jQuery but jStorage can handle both in one go.

  • locache.js is a simple framework to help you cache objects on the client-side. It's not a replacement for HTTP caching, and often that is a better idea. Rather it allows you to cache JavaScript objects ( anything that is JSON serialisable) for re-use or offline usage. You can optionally provide an expiration time for cached objects.
  • AES.io offers online tools for secure data storage and collaboration. We use client-side encryption to ensure all information is safe - both private and shared.

Media

Visualisation

  • D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.
  • Dojo GFX is a cross-browser 2D vector graphics API that enables development of rich graphic web application on desktop and mobile without having to deal with the browsers native graphics technologies.

Interface

  • Create.js is a comprehensive web editing interface for Content Management Systems. It is designed to provide a modern, fully browser-based HTML5 environment for managing content. Create can be adapted to work on almost any content management backend.
  • skrollr - Parallax* scrolling lib with zero dependencies (seriously, you don't need jQuery) in just under 5.5k minified (2.6k gzipped). No JavaScript skills needed.
  • Keep in View - Don't allow elements to scroll out of view by having them stick to the top or bottom of a window.

Keyboard

  • Mousetrap - A simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in Javascript.

Testing

  • QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript unit test suite. It’s used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code, including itself!.

Documentation

  • JsDoc Toolkit is an application, written in JavaScript, for automatically generating template-formatted, multi-page HTML (or XML, JSON, or any other text-based) documentation from commented JavaScript source code.

JS based

CofeeScript

  • CoffeeScript is a programming language that transcompiles to JavaScript. The language adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell[1] to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability, and add more sophisticated features like list comprehension and pattern matching.
  • IcedCoffeeScript is a superset of CoffeeScript. The iced interpreter is a drop-in replacement for the standard coffee interpreter; it will interpret almost all existing CoffeeScript programs.

Coco

  • Coco is a CoffeeScript dialect that aims to be more radical and practical. On its way to hide JavaScript's bad parts, CoffeeScript has accumulated own quirks: horrible variable scope, awkward ranges, confusing and/or pointless keywords, verbose file extension, and so on. Coco tries to amend them, entwining good parts of both.

LiveScript

  • LiveScript is Coco but much more compatible with CoffeeScript, more functional, and more feature rich. LiveScript aims for increased expressiveness and code beauty. While adding features to assist in functional style programming, LiveScript also deeply supports imperative and object oriented programming, and has an optional class system with inheritance, calls to super, and more.

Other

  • Tampermonkey is a tool that provides Greasemonkey script support for Google Chrome and Chromium Browser. It's API is fully compatible to Greasemonkey, including GM_registerMenuCommand, GM_xmlhttpRequest with cross domain support and access to the unsafeWindow object.

Node.js

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