JavaScript Libraries Roundup

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

18 year old Saddam Azad has compiled a HUGE list of Javascript libraries that include a quick summary of the scope of each library and links to project home pages, documentation and support pages. I had no idea there were this many libraries!

Quick Guide to Prototype

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Particletree offers a Quick Guide to the Prototype JavaScript library. This library is amazing and will help speed the development of your DOM/AJAX based web applications.

15 Things you can do with Yahoo! UI

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Yahoo’s! Dustin Diaz has a great overview of the Yahoo! UI library in a featured article at Think Vitamin. 15 Things you can do with Yahoo! UI is a great starting point for looking at the many features of this JavaScript library.

15 Days Of jQuery

Friday, June 9th, 2006

15 Days Of jQuery is a site that will offer 15 days of tutorials on how to use the jQuery JavaScript library. Already on Day 9, some topics so far include:

  • Quick and Dirty AJAX with jQuery
  • Rounded Corners with Javascript (jQuery)
  • Stylesheet Switcheroo
  • Safer Contact Forms Without CAPTCHA’s
  • Wrap It Up: Lazy Man’s HTML Generation with jQuery
  • Quicker Than Window.Onload()

Yahoo! UI Library Cheatsheets

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

The Yahoo! UI Library is now offering PDF Cheetsheets for download. These are must have’s if you develop with these excellent JavaScript libraries.

How to Use script.aculo.us Effect Queues

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Rails webdevelopment blog has a great tutorial that explains how to use the new Effect.Queues in the popular script.aculo.us JavaScript library.  Effect queues allows you to queue up multiple effects on a DOM node or group of DOM nodes.

MochiKit 1.1 Released

Friday, November 18th, 2005

MochiKit is a fantastic lightweight Javascript library that has just graduated to version 1.1. The author says that they took all the good ideas they could find from their Python, Objective-C, etc. experiences and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript. For me the most impressive aspect of Mochikit is there DOM manipulation library. It really speeds the process DOM manipulation.

Be sure to check out their 15 minute screencast that demonstrates some of the libraries greatest features.