Hello CodeGeekz audience, we are back with yet another development frameworks roundup released recently. In this roundup we have covered JavaScript frameworks that can serve number of purposes for you and help you to build effective and useful web applications.
Though the following JavaScript Frameworks are fresh and not the best ones as they are yet to be tested and used in order to gain top position, but still offer number of features and functionalities and assist you to develop quality web applications. So without any further ado lets check out these JavaScript Frameworks that aim to simplify front end application development. Enjoy !!.
If you like the article you might be interested in our other article on 15 Best JavaScript Frameworks for Developers
1. Mithril
Mithril is a client-side Javascript MVC framework. It’s a tool to make application code divided into a data layer, a UI layer, and a glue layer. Mithril is around 3kb gzipped, focused, API. It provides a templating engine with a virtual DOM diff implementation for performant rendering, utilities for high-level modelling via functional composition, as well as support for routing and componentization.
2. Famo.us
Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.
Famo.us runs on iOS, Android, Kindle and Firefox devices and integrates with Angular, Backbone, Meteor and Facebook React. Famo.us University is a free live coding classroom that teaches all levels of developers how to utilize famo.us to build beautiful experiences on every screen.
3. Gillie
Gillie is a lightweight MVC framework 4k inspired in Backbone. It provides useful methods to perform RESTful HTTP requests and allows for a separation of concerns using models, views and handlers. On the other hand offers an events API with which you can make your views listen for model events and take the appropriate actions, following in that way the observer design pattern.
4. Ease.js
GNU ease.js is a framework, not a compiler. It may be used wherever JavaScript may be used, and supports all major browsers; ease.js also provides support for older, pre-ES5 environments by gracefully degrading features (such as visibility support) while remaining functionally consistent.
5. Durandal
Durandal is a cross-device, cross-platform client framework written in JavaScript and designed to make Single Page Applications (SPAs) easy to create and maintain. They have used it to build apps for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. Durandal is built on libs you know and love like jQuery, Knockout and RequireJS. There’s little to learn and building apps feels comfortable and familiar.
6. Feathers.js
Feathers is a light weight web application framework that rides on top of Express, one of the most popular web frameworks for NodeJS. It makes it easy to create RESTful web services and real-time applications using socket.io. The core focus of Feathers is your data. They believe that ultimately your app’s purpose is to manage data in some fashion and so that’s all you should really need to deal with.
7. Ampersand.js
Ampersand.js is a highly modular, loosely coupled, non-frameworky framework for building advanced JavaScript apps. It’s a well-defined approach to combining a series of intentionally tiny modules. Everything is a CommonJS module. No AMD, UMD, or bundling of any kind is included by default. The clarity, simplicity, and flexibility of CommonJS just won. Clear dependencies, no unnecessary wrapping/indenting, no extra cruft. Just a clearly declared set of dependencies in package.json.
8. Skel.js
skelJS is a lightweight frontend framework for building responsive sites and apps. Consisting of only a single JS file (weighing in at just 18kb as of this version), it gives designers and developers access to four powerful components: CSS Grid System, Responsive Handler, CSS Shortcuts and Plugin System.
9. Riot.js
Riot.js is a 1KB client-side MVP framework for building large-scale web applications, which will be officially released in December 2013. It includes a template engine, router, event library, and strict MVP pattern for organization.
10. Jasmine
Jasmine is a Behavior Driven Development testing framework for JavaScript. It does not rely on browsers, DOM, or any JavaScript framework. Thus it’s suited for websites, Node.js projects, or anywhere that JavaScript can run.
