Difference between revisions of "Javascript Platforms"

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Angular JS

Angular.JS is developped by Google. AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop.

Node JS

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.

Ext-JS

Ext JS 5 is a JavaScript application framework that provides you with a full suite of tools for creating cross-platform applications. Ext JS 5 supports all modern browsers, from IE8 to the latest release of Chrome and everything in between.

Ext JS is an Object Oriented, Class-Based Library, which means it’s designed to allow your application to scale from a single developer up to a multi-team enterprise. Let’s break down some of these concepts in case you are unfamiliar with the terminology.

Require JS

RequireJS 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.

Underscore JS

Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects. It’s the answer to the question: “If I sit down in front of a blank HTML page, and want to start being productive immediately, what do I need?” … and the tie to go along with jQuery's tux and Backbone's suspenders.

Enyo JS

At the heart of Enyo is a simple but powerful encapsulation model, which helps you factor application functionality into self-contained building blocks that are easy to reuse and maintain.

Each piece of an Enyo application is a Component, and Components are constructed out of other Components.

For example, it’s easy to combine an <input> tag and a <label> tag into a LabeledInput Component, which you can use (and reuse) as one atomic piece. But that’s just the beginning. Larger pieces of functionality — a color picker, a fancy report generator, or an entire painting application — can also be packaged as reusable components.

Ember JS

Ember JS 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.

Backbone.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.

coffeescript

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath that awkward Java-esque patina, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: "It's just JavaScript". The code compiles one-to-one into the equivalent JS, and there is no interpretation at runtime. You can use any existing JavaScript library seamlessly from CoffeeScript (and vice-versa). The compiled output is readable and pretty-printed, will work in every JavaScript runtime, and tends to run as fast or faster than the equivalent handwritten JavaScript.