TOP 5 Frameworks/Libraries of JavaScript
Posted by Boussacsou Sami on Sunday, July 26, 2009 · 9 Comments
Are you an advanced JavaScript coder looking for more sites to sharpen and improve your coding prowess? if the answer is yes here in this post you will find a top 5 of the most popular ,powerful and flexible framework .
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#1
URL : http://script.aculo.us/.
Documentation : http://wiki.script.aculo.us/.
script.aculo.us it’s a prototype that provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
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#2
URL :http://www.prototypejs.org/.
Documentation : http://www.prototypejs.org/learn.
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.
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#3
URL: http://www.mootools.net/.
Documentation : http://docs.mootools.net/.
MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.
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#4
URL: hhttp://jquery.com/.
Documentation : http://docs.jquery.com/.
jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
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#5
URL: http://www.mochikit.com/.
Documentation : http://www.mochikit.com/doc/html/MochiKit/index.html.
MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. We took all the good ideas we could find from our Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript.
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what do you think about this top 5 ???
Prototype and Scriptaculous the greatest libraries?! :O
I disagree on this for many reasons. Having used both libraries frequently to acheive similar things I honestly feel jQuery is lightyears ahead of prototype. jQuery is smaller, faster and easier to use – fact. It’s also better supported, with a much bigger network of developers. Prototype has been around longer than jQuery, yet there are less than half of the number of prototype plugins than there are jQuery ones. Why is that I wonder? Plus many prototype plugins you have to pay for. I haven’t come across a jQuery plugin that you have to purchase yet…
But it is not just these that make jQuery better, here’s a simple example – try selecting an element on the page that doesn’t exist with Prototype. What happens? An error is thrown and other scripts running on the page may be stopped because of this.
What happens with jQuery when you try to select an element that doesn’t exist? Nothing. No errors are thrown, the library doesn’t fall over, the page doesn’t die.
That’s just a single little example of why jQuery is superior. I’m certain that there are many, many more.
TOP5 without reasons, why there are the top5-Frameworks. Why are the other 20 frameworks not so great? What are the point to be thebest?
This is only a click-fishing article with top adwords !
i agree with you mr Dan , personally i prefer and i work with jquery, but after checking the web i found that many people voted for others, because they have their reasons .
What about Extjs
Extjs not among the top 5 , and i don’t have more information about it .
@ Dan Wellman – You say that “jQuery is smaller, faster and easier to use”. While no one can argue that it is smaller and benchmarks show that it may be faster, its ease of use is subjective. So if you are going to state “facts” stay to the objective ones.
I think JQuery should probably have been at the top of the list with prototype second. Scriptaculous should not have been on a javascript framework list at all. Its a companion to prototype and is an effects library, not a framework.
The 17 Most Widely Used JavaScript Frameworks: http://www.jcargoo.org/2009/08/17-most-widely-used-javascript.html