Small Overview About Cocos2d ?

What is Cocos2d?

Cocos2d is an open source software framework. It can be used to build games, apps and other cross platform GUI based interactive programs. Cocos2d contains many branches with the best known being Cocos2d-objc, Cocos2d-x, Cocos2d-html5 and Cocos2d-XNA.

Cocos2d-X is for developers who wish to make cross-platform games.

In particular, Cocos2dx is for developers who want to use an open-source game engine. There's a thriving community of Cocos2dx developers who are helping each other succeed through online forums and sites like Stack Overflow.

The high price tag and limiting nature of closed-source engines such as Unity and Corona are what cause many a developer to choose open-source.

Another key reason to use an open-source game engine is that you can modify anything if necessary.

Small Overview About Grails?

A powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot

Grails is an open source web application framework that uses the Apache Groovy programming language (which is in turn based on the Java platform). It is intended to be a high-productivity framework by following the "coding by convention" paradigm, providing a stand-alone development environment and hiding much of the configuration detail from the developer.

Features

FLAT LEARNING CURVE
ON TOP OF SPRING BOOT
SMOOTH JAVA INTEGRATION
GROOVY-BASED
SEAMLESS GORM INTEGRATION
REST APIS, REACT, ANGULAR
VIEW TECHNOLOGIES
ASYNCHRONOUS CAPABILITIES
OPEN SOURCE
DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGES
IDE SUPPORT

Grails goals

Provide a web framework for the Java platform.
Re-use existing Java technologies such as Hibernate and Spring under a single interface
Offer a consistent development framework.
Offer documentation for key portions of the framework:
The Persistence framework.
Templates using GSP (Groovy Server Pages).
Dynamic tag libraries for creating web page components.
Customizable and extensible Ajax support.
Provide sample applications that demonstrate the framework.

Video for Grails

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqun9B15kmM

Small Overview About Bulma CSS Framework?

What is Bulma?

Bulma is a CSS framework. As such, the sole output is a single CSS file: bulma.css. You can either use that file, "out of the box", or download the Sass source files to customize the variables.

Bulma is a free and open source CSS framework based on Flexbox.

Node Command

npm install bulma

Features

Flexbox based: Makes creating grid items and vertically aligned things really easy.
Responsive: Mobile first framework similar to Bootstrap
Well documented: This sounds like a boring reason but is so very important
Solid looking foundation: All the typography, buttons, tables, forms, and basic CSS goodies you'd expect
Tons of components: Comes with layouts, a vertical alignment level, and media objects
Modular: Built with Sass. Only import the features that you'll use for your project

Video for Bulma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MchBPICewgs

Overview About MaterializeCSS ?

What is MaterializeCSS ?

MaterializeCSS is a modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design. It simplifies life for developers and the users they serve.

It is Created and designed by Google, Material Design is a design language that combines the classic principles of successful design along with innovation and technology.

Materialize is a UI component library created with CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. Materialize reusable UI components helps in constructing attractive, consistent, and functional web pages and web apps while adhering to modern web design principles like browser portability, device independence, and graceful degradation.

Features:

Responsive designing.
Standard CSS with minimal footprint.
Includes new versions of common user interface controls such as buttons, check boxes, and text fields which are adapted to follow Material Design concepts.
Includes enhanced and specialized features like cards, tabs, navigation bars, toasts, and so on.
Requires jQuery javascript library to function properly.
Cross-browser, and can be used to create reusable web components.
Free to use

Simple Example with Hello World

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>The Materialize Example</title>
	  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">      
	  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons">
	  <link rel="stylesheet" href="materialize.min.css">
      <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script>           
      <script src="materialize.min.js"></script>             
  </head>
  <body>
      <div class="card-panel teal lighten-2"><h3>Hello World!</h3></div>
   </body>
</html>

Video about Materialize Css
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDARfYsFRd0

Overview About Phonegap?

What is Phonegap?

PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for the platforms you care about.

PhoneGap is an application framework that enables you to build natively installed applications using HTML and JavaScript.

The easiest way to think of PhoneGap is a web view container that is 100% width and 100% height, with a JavaScript programming interface that allows you to access underlying operating system features.

You build your user interface using traditional web development skills (HTML, CSS, & JavaScript), and use the PhoneGap container to deploy to different application ecosystems and devices.

When packaged for deployment, the PhoneGap application is a binary distributable file that can be distributed by the “normal” application marketplaces (iTunes, Google App Market, Amazon Market, etc…).

PhoneGap can be used to build applications that target multiple platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, HP WebOS, Symbian, and Bada.

Since the UI rendering engine is the mobile device’s web browser, PhoneGap applications can literally look like anything.

You can use standard HTML & CSS to make it look like a normal web page, you can use a UI framework like jQuery UI, Kendo UI, Sencha, Twitter Bootstrap, or Skeleton (or any other HTML/CSS/JS user interface framework). You can also use CSS styles/themes to make your web content look like native apps, such as iUI to mimic iOS or Android, or bbUI to mimic BlackBerry.

PhoneGap applications can have static UIs based on normal HTML, or can have dynamic & interactive experiences developed using JavaScript.

It depends upon the specific application, user experience design, target audience, and use cases to dictate how a PhoneGap application will appear.

Video Tutorial about Phonegap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOH4aGows40

Overview About Mustache.js

What is Mustache.js?

Mustache is an open source logic-less template system developed for languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP, and Java.

Mustache provides templates and views as the basis for creating dynamic templates.

The main principles were:

logic-less: no explicit control flow statements, all control driven by data.
strong "separating logic from presentation": it is impossible to embed application logic in the Mustache templates.

Why mustache.js?
Mustache is a library that allows you to read in JSON formatted data and display it using templates you design with JavaScript. There are lots of similar libraries, such as underscore.js, handlebars.js, and dust.js. So why did I choose mustache?

I picked mustache because I wanted something simple. Some of the other libraries provide more functionality, but I didn’t need complexity. I needed to spend time building the site, not learning something new. And that’s the great thing about mustache.js—if you know JSON and a bit of JavaScript, it’s a cinch to implement.

Mustache is used mainly for mobile and web applications.

Refer More at : http://mustache.github.io/

Video Tutorial for Mustache.js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8wh6_rdqi0

Overview About Backbone.js

What is Backbone.js?

Backbone.js is a JavaScript library with a restful JSON interface and is based on the model–view–presenter (MVP) application design paradigm.

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

Backbone.js is a JavaScript library that runs in the browser. We use it to structure client-side applications – those that run in a web browser.

With Backbone, you represent your data as Models, which can be created, validated, destroyed, and saved to the server. Whenever a UI action causes an attribute of a model to change, the model triggers a "change" event; all the Views that display the model's state can be notified of the change, so that they are able to respond accordingly, re-rendering themselves with the new information.

Backbone.js is a lightweight JavaScript library that adds structure to your client-side code. It makes it easy to manage and decouple concerns in your application, leaving you with code that is more maintainable in the long term.

Developers commonly use libraries like Backbone.js to create single-page applications (SPAs). SPAs are web applications that load into the browser and then react to data changes on the client side without requiring complete page refreshes from the server.

When Do I Need A JavaScript MVC Framework?
When building a single-page application using JavaScript, whether it involves a complex user interface or is simply trying to reduce the number of HTTP requests required for new Views, you will likely find yourself inventing many of the pieces that make up an MV* framework.

Why Consider Backbone.js?
Backbone provides a minimal set of data-structuring (Models, Collections) and user interface (Views, URLs) primitives that are helpful when building dynamic applications using JavaScript. It’s not opinionated, meaning you have the freedom and flexibility to build the best experience for your web application how you see fit. You can either use the prescribed architecture it offers out of the box or extend it to meet your requirements.

Refer More at : http://backbonejs.org/

Video Tutorial for What is Backbone.js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XcbXmbrub8

Overview About YUI

What is YUI?

YUI is a free, open source JavaScript and CSS library for building richly interactive web applications.

YUI is a library of JavaScript utilities and controls for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM Scripting, DHTML, and Ajax.

->Fast
->Modular Architecture / Dependency Management
->Component Infrastructure
->Event System
->DOM Interaction,Ajax,Many Widgets
->Great Documentation

YUI App Framework

->Is Open Sourced
->Is Developed by Yahoo and the YUI community
->Is based on YUI3
->Is inspired by Backbone.js
->Gives you a basic structure for front end heavy web applications

MVC

-> Seperation of Concerns
->YUI App Framework is MVC

Why YUI?

YUI is proven to be scalable, fast, and robust. Built by frontend engineers at Yahoo! and contributors from around the world, it's an industrial-strength JavaScript library for professionals who love JavaScript, whether is it run on mobile devices, on desktop browsers, or even on the server.

YUI's lightweight core and modular architecture make it scalable, fast, and robust. Built by frontend engineers at Yahoo!, YUI powers the most popular websites in the world.

Learn more at : http://yuilibrary.com/

See this Video for why YUI?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvyh1Nmq9fs

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