Useful JavaScript libraries? including JQuery and beyond...

Question

This question is no longer just about UI

Being rather new to the whole JavaScript/JQuery/JQueryUI lark, I have just discovered the Yahoo User Interface Library. I'm sure there are other free and fully functional JavaScript libraries out on the web that I should be aware of.

Around UI design, or really, anything.

Answer 1

I'd say prototype and mootools mainly.

Answer 2

Wikipedia: List of JavaScript Libraries

Answer 3

Check this question:

• Your choice of cross-browser javascript GUI

Answer 4

For UI, you may want to look at the following:

1. MochaUI - built on top of the mootools library (DEMO)
2. SproutCore - new one that i recently came across, also used in Apple's mobile me website.
3. EXTJS - Features a rich set of tools as well. Easy to use and skinnable. (Demos/sample)
4. Prototype UI - Based on Prototype and Script.aculo.us.
5. Dojo JS Toolkit Powerful, compact (26kb) and skinnable too :) (Demos)
6. LivePipe - also based on prototype, has a some nice UI widgets.

If you're into webapps for iphone (do people still build these?), checkout iUI: http://code.google.com/p/iui/

Answer 5

I know of these, but have only limited experience using them.

• Google Diff-Match-Patch - analyzes differences between text, generates and applies patches.

• Slow AES - AES implementation in Javascript.
  In my tests there's good compat between this implementation and other, commercial libraries like .NET System.Security.Cryptography.AesManaged. SlowAES doesn't include all the modes, but the ones that are there, work well. It's not really that slow. See also the question Getting .NET and SlowAES to work together.

• PBKDF2 - RFC2898 password-based key derivation. A key derivation function is essential for doing encryption using passwords. This is an implementation that conforms to the RFC2898 (PKCS #5) standard.

• Sprintf - C-like string formatting.

Answer 6

You can try PURE
It is a very fast JS templating tool that keeps the HTML totally clean from any coding.

It works with dojo, domAssistant, jQuery, mootools, prototype, sizzle, sly and in standalone for modern browsers or mobiles.

Here is the github project page is and here are some examples