NPM (Node Package Manager) Trends (Cont.)

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Several enhancements of JavaScript are available:

• AngularJS, which is an open-source, front-end web framework to address many of the challenges encountered in developing single-page applications (from Google)


• Backbone.js, which is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the MVC (model–view–controller) application design paradigm


• jQuery, which is a 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.


• Node.js, which is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser (from Google)


• React, which is an open-source, front end, JavaScript library for building user interfaces or UI components (from Facebook)


• Svelte, which is a free and open-source front end JavaScript framework. Building a Svelte application generates code to manipulate the DOM, which may reduce the size of transferred files as well as give better client startup and run-time performance.


• Vue.js, which is an open-source, MVC, frontend JavaScript framework for building user interfaces and single-page applications (from Google)


• W3.JS, which is a is a lightweight and free JavaScript library. It offers various functions allowing, for example, to dynamically manipulate the DOM, create a slideshow, an AJAX request. (from W3Schools)