Editing Javascript Libraries


== Javascript Library Reference ==

'''What is a Javascript Library?''' 
A JavaScript library is a library of pre-written JavaScript which allows for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies.


= AngularJS = 
'''Layman's:'''  AngularJS is useful for web applications for data-binding, javascript templating, multiple views, and more. Very easy to create a lightning fast live search, and multiple views in to data. Angular is more of a "Framework" than a "Library".

'''What their site says:''' HTML is great for declaring static documents, but it falters when we try to use it for declaring dynamic views in web-applications. AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop.

= Backbone =

'''What their site says:''' 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.

= Bootstrap =

'''Layman's:''' A grid-based layout normalizer that allows websites to be responsive by design.

= Dojo =
Similar to jQuery for DOM manipulation

= Ember =
'''What their site says:''' Ember makes Handlebars templates even better, by ensuring your HTML stays up-to-date when the underlying model changes. To get started, you don't even need to write any JavaScript.
Brings native-app architecture to the web. Kills complexity. Making a website just a client-side app so there is no server side rendering. In the same vein as angular.

= jQuery = 

'''Layman's:''' DOM manipulation

= Knockout =
no info yet

= Meteor = 
Front end AND backend framework

= MooTools = 
no info yet

= Mustache = 

'''Layman's:''' Javascript Templating

'''What their site says:''' Logic-less templates.Mustache 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. We call it "logic-less" because there are no if statements, else clauses, or for loops. Instead there are only tags. Some tags are replaced with a value, some nothing, and others a series of values. This document explains the different types of Mustache tags.

= Node.js = 
'''Layman's:''' A very popular server-side javascript framework. Very useful for extremely fast real-time communictation between server and client. Perfect for a chat room and two-way communication.

'''What their site says:''' Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

= Yui =
no info yet