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HTML5 Boilerplate is a starting template for web development that includes a set of best practices, standardized HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, and optimizations to help developers create modern and consistent websites more efficiently. | |
Hydration, in the context of web development, refers to the process of re-rendering or updating a web page's user interface after the initial page load. This is typically done to enable dynamic and interactive content on web applications. | |
A Windows native hypervisor that can create virtual machines on systems running Windows, can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. | |
JavaScript collections library, which provides persistent Immutable List, Stack, Map, OrderedMap, Set, OrderedSet and Record. Immutable data cannot be changed once created, leading to much simpler application development. | |
Developer Toolkit providing UI controls and productivity tools for quickly building high-performance web, mobile, and desktop apps. Works with Angular, React and other popular frameworks. | |
JavaScript applications which run both client-side and server-side. Next step in the evolution of JavaScript frameworks. They are solving the problems associated with traditional JavaScript frameworks. | |
A client-side scripting language primarily used to make web pages interactive. In other words, it's responsible for the 'behavior' of a website, i.e. how HTML elements and CSS style animate and move around on the page. | |
JavaScript bundler is a tool that combines multiple JavaScript files and their dependencies into a single, optimized file or set of files for efficient delivery to web browsers. This bundling process helps reduce the number of HTTP requests and optimizes the size and structure of the code, improving web application performance. | |
Angular, React, Ember.js, extJS, Backbone, Knockout.js, D3.js, Sencha, Mercury.js, WebRx, Vue.js. | |
A set of plug-ins that make Widgets easy to manipulate and insert into a GUI. JFace frees you from all the drudgery of manipulating SWT widget elements to add behavior to static widgets. | |
Fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. | |
jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. It makes web apps more polished and engaging. | |
An authoring tool for CSS which allows you to use JavaScript to describe styles in a declarative, conflict-free and reusable way. | |
JavaScript Syntax eXtension (JSX is statically-typed, object-oriented programming language designed to run on modern web browsers. JSX helps write concise HTML/XML-like structures (e.g., DOM-like tree structures) in the same file as you write JavaScript code. | |
A complete JavaScript UI component library that allows you to quickly build eye-catching, high-quality, high-performance responsive web apps using your framework of choice. | |
MVVM library in JavaScript that uses declarative bindings and observables to keep the DOM in sync with underlying data models. | |
Widely used open source JavaScript library used to build web mapping applications. Used to display a variety of tiles maps. | |
Leaner Style Sheets (Less) is a popular CSS pre-processor that extends CSS with dynamic functionality, and allows more techniques to make CSS that is more maintainable, themeable and extendable. Dynamic behavior includes variables, mixins, operations and functions. | |
Backbone framework that simplifies Backbone application code with robust views and architecture solutions. By organizing your app in terms of small views it makes it easy to compose rich layouts out of small components. | |
Dynamic grid layout plugin for jQuery working by placing elements in optimal position based on available vertical space, sort of like a mason fitting stones in a wall. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically, positioning each element in the next open spot in the grid. | |
Modular, fast, virtual-dom, functional-reactive frontend framework. Has some features inspired by React.js, such as virtual DOM, state management and render methods. Works well with other libraries and has a streamlined markup API. | |
One of the world's most popular React UI libraries used for faster and easier web development. in the world for (backed by a community of over 1 million developers in 180+ countries. | |
Micro frontends is an architectural approach in web development where a large and complex web application is divided into smaller, more manageable parts called micro frontends. Each micro frontend is responsible for a specific part of the user interface and can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. | |
Mithril.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework for building Single Page Applications. It offers a simple and efficient solution for creating user interfaces and emphasizes minimalism and performance. | |
Library that makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming (TFRP). The philosophy behind MobX is anything that can be derived from the application state, should be derived automatically. | |
