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?.

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

Small Discussion About Supersonic Framework?

What is Supersonic ?

Supersonic is a robust user interface framework (UI) for developing hybrid mobile applications. The framework integrates with any REST API (Application Programming Interface) and allows data interaction/modification in the backend. With Supersonic, one can design API-connected mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Supersonic is a framework with an elegant balance of simplicity and power. By using the best of what AngularJS, web components and HTML5 have to offer, Supersonic has crafted a level of sophistication that is years ahead of the competition.

Supersonic UI is a game-changer. It's an Ionic fork that changes the way you think about hybrid app performance. Supersonic's declarative UI style makes building complex mobile apps a breeze. In the background, the seamless interplay of native UI and HTML5 bakes an end-result that is 100% indistinguishable from any native app.

Supersonic bridges the gap by using native UI elements when HTML and CSS just don't cut it. No more position: fixed; header bars, slow tabs or choppy animations. Page transitions, modals, navigation bars, tab bars, drawers – and a whole lot more – are fully native. That means unparalleled performance and no App Store rejections.

Video for SuperSonic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uppxfhxl48

Small Discussion about Jeet?

What is Jeet?

Jeet is a grid system built on top of Sass and Stylus. It consists of powerful mixins and functions you can use to create fast responsive layouts.

Unlike many other grids, Jeet provides a more flexible approach for producing layouts. Here are its main advantages:

It doesn’t add any additional markup.
It isn’t limited to a specific column size (e.g. 12-column grid).
You can use fractions (e.g. 1/4), decimals (e.g. 0.75), or even a combination of them (e.g. 1.5/4) for generating the desired layout.
The grid is designed to work in all major browsers including IE9+. If you want to target previous versions of IE, take a look at the Boy boilerplate.

The grid comes in two flavors, one for Sass(SCSS) and another for Stylus. Depending on the preprocessor you want to use, there’s a different installation method.

Npm Sass & Stylus

npm install -D node-sass jeet
npm install -D stylus jeet

Video for Jeet Framework

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3_Bg_tMlQQ

Small Discussion about Raphael.js

What is Raphael?

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web.

Raphaël uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics.

This means every graphical object you create is also a DOM object, so you can attach JavaScript event handlers or modify them later.

Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing vector art compatible cross-browser and easy.

Raphaël is used by first creating an instance of the Raphaël object, which manages the creation of the canvas.

Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome 5.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

Why use Raphael.js?

It is also possible to create animations using HTML5 Canvas. HTML5 Canvas uses bitmap graphics and excels at processing complicated animations like flying past stars in outer space.

In contrast, Raphael.js uses SVG vector images and is designed to seamlessly integrate with on page events such as clicking, hovering, and dragging. Moreover, Raphael.js provides great legacy browser support (including IE7 and IE8).

How to start?

You can simply include raphael.js file in html and you will start use.

For example:

<script type="text/javascript" src = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael/master/raphael.js"></script>

Full HTML Example Code

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title>Raphaël Simple Example</title>    
   <script type="text/javascript" src = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael/master/raphael.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>

    <!-- the html element where to put the paper -->
    <div id="paper1"></div>

    <!-- a script that create's a paper and a rectangle -->
    <script type="text/javascript">
    var paper = Raphael("paper1", 500,500);
    var rect1 = paper.rect(20,30,100,12).attr({fill: "orange"});
    </script>

  </body>
</html>

Video Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPy77zMsd0Y

Small Discussion About Montage JS

What is Montage Js?

MontageJS is an open-source JavaScript framework for building scalable single-page applications. Its aim is to simplify the development and maintainability of expressive HTML5 applications by employing many of the foundations of proven native application frameworks.

MontageJS is a modern frontend HTML5 framework that supports creating single-page applications—fast. MontageJS uses time-tested design patterns and software principles, allowing you to easily create a modular architecture for your projects and deliver a high-quality user experience.

This allows designers and developers to work collaboratively and quickly. MontageJS is easy to learn because it is closely aligned with the underlying design of the Web, complementing existing standards.

Montage builds on ECMAScript 5, HTML5, and the CommonJS module system popularized by Node.js. It provides the functionality to build graphical user interfaces providing access to both a set of opinionated UI components as well as standard DOM interface components.

Montage also comes with a command line tool that translates a developer-optimized experience into a user-optimized experience called Mop

Requirements for Montage JS

1)Node.js and npm. MontageJS application development depends on npm, which is distributed with Node.js.
2)A recent stable release of Chrome, Safari or Firefox. MontageJS is intended to leverage the evolving web platform of modern browsers.

Features

1)Build engaging applications
2)Work faster together
3)Iterate quickly with modular design
4)Experience instant feedback
5)Collaborate with GitHub
6)Leverage MontageJS

What is Montagejs Video tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeuG2zptrtM&list=UUKzsAXNDHm25VtXiWVYe8PA