Evolution Of JS & Its Frameworks

First Website-August,1991

Tim Berners Lee

European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva

JavaScript, September 1995

Brendan Eich

Standardization of Javascript

ECMAScript

XMLHttpRequest

Jesse James Garrett

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

Feb 2005

Earlier usage :

Gmail (2004)

Kayak.com (2004)

Google Maps (2005)

Cross-Browser Compatibility

JS Frameworks & Libraries

Advantages of JS frameworks

➔ Seamlessly handled cross browser issues

➔ Helped to speed-up development

➔ Was easy to learn and use

➔ Served as base for development of further

Libraries and frameworks

Too many choice leads to Confusion

Comparison

Front-end Stack

Base/DOM libraries

Widget & UI Libraries(Toolkits)

Processing.jsCreateJs

Raphaël

Full Stack Frameworks

Module Loaders

Package Managers

Build Tools

Web App libraries (MV*)