2005-09-15
The Cornucopia of Javascript toolkits
It seems like every week I'm discovering a new javascript toolkit for building your next "Web 2.0" application. I'm knee-deep into developing a Rails-based Writertopia, so I'm trying not to spend too much time looking at these nice open source frameworks, but it's hard -- real hard.
Here's a quick list of some of the more promising systems that you can google:
Here's a quick list of some of the more promising systems that you can google:
- Zimbra popped up on the TechCrunch.com radar. Very nice collaboration suite that shows the power of their AjaxTK toolkit. Try the demo. You'll be impressed.
- Dojo deserves a look. One of the main developers gave a talk at OSCON and I was impressed with the packaging system and obvious expertise being brought to the framework.
- Scriptaculous and Prototype, two libraries well known to the Rails community, keep getting better.
- Mochikit is a nice suite of javascript libraries. Get your rounded corners there.
- Quooxdoo (pronounced "cooks do") has an impressive array of UI widgets. Check out their demo page.
- TrimJunction is a Rails-clone in javascript. If you look around their well-documented pages, you'll see how powerful javascript can be.
