{"id":46,"date":"2009-07-21T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-07-21T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T18:35:19","slug":"nano-review-of-js-frameworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/nano-review-of-js-frameworks\/","title":{"rendered":"nano review of JavaScript frameworks (YUI, jQuery, moo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having gone through these three frameworks, I’m going to say something I wish other review sites said: For each purpose, there is a “best” framework. It all depends on context.<\/p>\n

The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re building a rich web application from scratch, YUI will have very thorough tools to do anything you want. As long as you survive writing the code.<\/p>\n

Mootools<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re looking to add a little ajax and dhtml to your exisiting web page, or need a lightweight, high performance library, go with Mootools.<\/p>\n

jQuery<\/a><\/p>\n

Somewhere between Mootools and YUI, jQuery has a lot of\u00c2\u00a0 features and is very tidy to code.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we can compare the philosophies behind each framework by examining their respective homepages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nYUI<\/th>\njQuery<\/th>\nMootools<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\"YUI\"<\/td>\n\"jquery\"<\/td>\n\"moo\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Slogan<\/th>\nThe YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.<\/span><\/td>\nThe Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library<\/span><\/td>\na compact javascript framework<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Size<\/th>\n8.91KB<\/td>\n13.41KB<\/td>\n7.33KB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Comment<\/th>\nLook at how busy and dated their homepage is… but it is compact.<\/td>\nA very slick page, but underneath it, it is a little bloated.<\/td>\nSimple and clean.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having gone through these three frameworks, I’m going to say something I wish other review sites said: For each purpose, there is a “best” framework. It all depends on context. The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) If you’re building a rich web application from scratch, YUI will have very thorough tools to do anything you…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> nano review of JavaScript frameworks (YUI, jQuery, moo)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technical","tag-js"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}