Ajax in Action

Appendix C. Ajax frameworks and libraries

The last year has seen a rapid proliferation of Ajax and JavaScript frameworks, from small cross-browser wrapper utilities to complete end-to-end client and server solutions. In this appendix, we attempt to take a snapshot of the current range of offerings, with apologies to any that we’ve omitted.

We, the authors of this book, haven’t personally used all of these frameworks and toolkits in a production setting, and in many cases we’ve based our descriptions on the author or vendor’s own claims for the toolkit. If you’re reading this a year after publication, many of the descriptions will be wildly inaccurate or out of date, and many of the frameworks may have been abandoned or absorbed into other projects. ...