Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Yahoo! does Ajax – Javascript libraries and Patterns
Category: Dojo, Library
, Prototype
, Yahoo!
JavaScript is hard, but it could be a lot harder. These days, choosing your tools can actually be most of the work.
Today, the poster children of web application success consist of numerous beefy and interdependent JavaScript files with a light dusting of HTML and CSS. With JavaScript codebases easily outweighing markup and style sheets, should most of the sensitive, new age web developer’s time be spent scripting?
Well, unless you’re trying to solve a problem that no one has tackled before, the answer is “probably not.�
The post goes on to look at four of the more popular Javascript libraries out there – Dojo, Prototype, AjaxTK, and, of course, the Yahoo UI Library. There’s a brief summary for each of them, focusing mainly on what it offers and where it fits into the Javascript community.
He also finishes the post off with a brief look at design patterns in Javascript, specifically mentioning the Yahoo design pattern library they’re now offering as well. There’s links to some of the current patterns you’ll find as well as some other references to get a hold of to read up on patterns themselves.
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I’m very appreciative of Yahoo doing this. Studying the code is like an awesome educational experience.
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this sounds interresting , well worth the 4 stars!
Am running a collaborative comparison of the various javascript libraries and frameworks. http://mytechrantings.blogspot.com/2007/11/comparing-prototypescriptaculous-dojo.html
please submit your valuable opinions :D