Best tools for AJAX

Question

What are the best tools for AJAX development? I know of firebug for firefox, what other great tools are there for AJAX development?

Answer 1

jquery on the client side. Makes it easy to request different data types, deal with different states of response, and hides away complexities.

gson on the server if you are using Java, converts Java objects to JSON output, and vice versa.

Answer 2

DevExpress has a lot of out of the box AJAX stuff with their controls. They also have one cool control the ASPxCallback which allows you to implement your own that way. You can check it out here.

Microsoft also has AJAX framework for ASP.NET. Check it out here.

Answer 3

If you're going to be doing .NET development I suggest using WCF services on the server-side. You can create awesome little RESTful WCF services that will play nicely with jquery and Ajax.

Answer 4

You meant YSlow. Do you know that Google has recently realized firebug plug-in called "Page Speed".

It is great, especially the documentation.