JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

The library and framework make the life of a programmer easier as libraries have many built-in functions and methods that can be used to create and give more functionalities to a web. These tools help in saving time and making code more readable. Also, they provide project structure and data flow structure that helps to create fast and more reliable applications. We will discuss more about Libraries and frameworks.

JavaScript Libraries

A JavaScript library is a collection of classes, methods, and pre-written functions that a developer can use in their web development projects. It makes code reusable and simplifies the development process. It is also used because it provides cross-browser compatibility and saves time & effort.

JavaScript Libraries	Versions	Description	Applications
jQuery	Introduced: August 26, 2006 Current: 3.7.1	A JavaScript library that is fast, small, and rich in features. Helps in DOM manipulation and event handling in web applications.	Provides cross-browser compatibility and it simplifies the code.
ReactJS	Introduced: May 29, 2013 Current: 18.2.0	An open-source JavaScript library used to create user interfaces in a declarative and efficient way. Component-based front-end library is responsible only for the view layer of an MVC architecture.	Creates simple views for each state in the application and efficiently updates and renders just the right component as your data changes.
React Reactstrap	Current: 9.2.1	A bootstrap-based React UI library used to make good-looking webpages. Does not embed its own style, but it depends upon the Bootstrap CSS framework for its styles and theme.	Provides Bootstrap components and increases code reusability.
jQuery Mobile	Introduced: October 16, 2010 Current: 1.5.0	An HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive websites and apps. Accessible on all smartphone, tablet, and desktop devices.	Creates responsive and Ajax-based user interface system.
React Suite	Current: 5.43.0	A popular front-end library with a set of React components that are designed for the middle platform and back-end products. The input component allows the user to create a basic widget for getting the user input in a text field.	Provides customizable themes, accessibility support.
React Blueprint.js	Current: 5.7.0	A React-based UI toolkit for the web. Very optimized and popular for building complexinterfaces.	Provides optimized data-dense web interfaces for desktop applications
Lodash	Introduced: April 23, 2012 Current: 4.17.21	A JavaScript library that has large amout of functions. It has built-in functions.	Provides Modularity and fast web application by the use of built-in functions.
Moment.js	Introduced: 2011 Current: 2.29.4	A JavaScript package that makes it simple to parse, validate, manipulate, and display date/time in JavaScript. Allows you to display dates in a human-readable format based on your location.	Used in a browser using the script approach. Compatible with Node.js and can be installed via npm.
D3.js	Introduced: 2011 Current: 7.8.5	A resource JavaScript library for managing documents based on data. One of the most effective framework to work on data visualization.	Provide applications that has DOM manipulation, Transition, animatioin, large dataset
p5.js	Current: 1.9.0	A JavaScript library for creative coding, with attention to making code accessible and inclusive for artists.	Provides such appliations which can be run on any web browser.
Underscore.js	Introduced: October 28, 2009 Current: 1.13.6	Lightweight JavaScript library and not a complete framework that was written by Jeremy Ashkenas. Provides utility functions for a variety of use.	Provides JavaScript templating, function binding, deep equality testing, creating quick indexes, and many more.
Tensorflow.js	Introduced: November 9, 2015 Current: 4.13.0	A JavaScript library for training and deploying machine learning models on web applications and in Node.js.	Develop the machine learning models from scratch or can use the APIs provided to train your existing models in the browser or on your Node.js server.
Fabric.js	Introduced: July 18, 2010 Current: 5.0.0	An open-source JavaScript canvas library, that provides the interactive object model built on top of the canvas element. Also an SVG-to-canvas & canvas-to-SVG parser. It was made by Juriy Zaytsev and was first launched in 2010.	Creates such applications that runs smoothly on mobile browsers.
Collect.js	Current: 4.36.1	A JavaScript library for collecting data from tree-based structures. Used on JavaScript Array and Objects.	Creates applications that are compatible with Laravel.
ElectronJS	Introduced: July 15, 2013 Current: 27.0.4	Developed by the open-source and GitHub. Uses NodeJs in its core to serve pages	Provides compatible web application that can run to cross-platform.
Ant Design	Current: 5.11.1	A React UI library that contains easy-to-use components that are useful for building interactive user interfaces.	Provides us with high-quality components which can be used with ease.
Anime.js	Current: 3.2.1	A small, lightweight JavaScript library with a simple and small powerful API. Works with the DOM element, CSS, and JavaScript object.	Used to generate animation for the web applications.
Chart.js	Introduced: August 24, 2023 Current: 4.4.0	An open source JavaScript library on Github that allows to draw different types of charts by using the HTML5 canvas element.	Used to draw graphs, make photo compositions or do simple animations. Helps in creating a redraws chart on resizing of window for perfect scale granularity.
Leaflet	Introduced: May 13, 2011 Current: 1.9.4	An open-source JavaScript library for adding simple and interactive web maps.	Helps in creating a fast and map based weba applications.
Three.js	Introduced: April 24, 2010 Current: 0.77.1	An open source JavaScript library that is used to display the graphics, 3D and 2D objects on the web browser. Uses WebGL API behind the scene.	Helps in creating GPU based 3D objects on a canvas in the web browser.

JavaScript Frameworks

Javascript frameworks are essential tools for creating a web application. They provide built-in components that help in creating robust and interactive web components or applications. They simplified the structure of project and provides blueprints of the project. Also, it simplifies HTML document traversal. They provide powerful and efficient methods for handling events like click, double click mouseover, etc. They also provide two-way data binding.

Js Frameworks	Versions	Description	Applications
Angular js	Introduced: October 20, 2010 Current: 17.0.3	A powerful JavaScript framework that helps in building dynamic and interactive web applications.	Creates application based on MVC architechture that leads to cleaner and more organized code.
Bootstrap	Introduced: August 19, 2011 Current: 5.0.0	A widely-used open-source front-end framework for web development, providing a collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components and tools. Enable developers to build responsive, mobile-first websites with ease.	Creates responsive web designs, mobile-first development, Efficient protyping, consistent cross-browser compatibility.
Vue.js	Introduced: February 2014 Current: 3.3.0	A progressive JavaScript framework for building user interface or UI components. Can adapt incremently and it has a library which basically focuses on the view layer only.	Helps in creating a fast and routing based web applications.
Node.js	Introduced: May 27, 2009 Current: 21.1.0	An open-source and cross-platform runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine for executing JavaScript code outside of a browser.	Provides an event-driven, non-blocking I/O and cross-platform runtime environment for building highly scalable server-side applications using JavaScript.
ExpressJS	Introduced: November 16, 2010 Current: 4.18.1	A small framework that works on top of Node.js web server functionality to simplify its APIs and add helpful new features.	Provides helful utilities to node.js HTTP objects, rounting and middlewares.
Nuxt.js	Introduced: October 26, 2016 Current: 3.8.0	A famous open-source framework for building Vue.js applications. Based on Vue.js, which is one of the greatest frameworks for JavaScript similar to React.js used for building user interfaces.	Helps in creation of SEO- friendly websites with faster page load and good performance. Helps in craeting those appplication that has plugins, and modules.
Next.js	Introduced: October 25, 2016 Current: 14.0.0	An open-source web development React-based framework created by Vercel. Famous for its unique features such as Server-side rendering and enhanced SEO.	Helps in Routing, code splitting, code reloading, hot code reloading.
Mocha	Introduced: November 22, 2011 Current: 10.2.0	A testing framework for Javascript running on Node.js.	Used for testing Javascript codes before deploying them onto the server.
Angular PrimeNG	Introduced: February 1, 2016 Current: 14.0.0	An open-source framework with a rich set of native Angular UI components. Used for great styling and this framework is used to make responsive websites with very much ease.	Facilitates the various components, panels, overlays, menus, charts, etc. Helps to make SPA so that it can improves the overall experience, along with adding the different functions to perform the specific task, based on the used components.
Angular Material UI	Current: 17.0.0	UI component library that provides a suite of reusable, high-quality and accessible UI components for Angular applications.	Provides a wide range of high-quality, ready-to-usse UI components. Helps to maintain large scale web applications in less time. Also, it is compatible to cross-browsers.
Angular-ng-bootstrap	Introduced: 2016 Current: 15.1.2	A valuable toool for developers by this we can incorporate Bootstrap into our applications.	Improves the performance by reducing the number of watchers in an application.
Angular ngx Bootstrap	Current: 11.0.2	An open-source (MIT Licensed) project. Provides Bootstrap components powered by Angular, which does not require including any original JS components.	Facilitates different kinds of Alert component, Rating component, Progressbar component.
Ember.js	Introduced: December 8, 2011 Current: 5.4.0	An open-source JavaScript framework used for developing MVC based large client-side web applications.	Helps in manipulation of web pages.
Backbone.js	Introduced: October 13, 2010 Current: 1.5.0	A lightweight JavaScript library for structuring JavaScript code and the structure of Backbone is similar to MVC/MV* framework. Makes programmers to plan out single-page applications.	Creates applications based on the MVC approach, which abstracts data into models.
Ionic	Current: 7.0.0	An Open source UI toolkit for developing the mobile apps and web applications.	Provides applications that are supportive to cross-platforms such a Android, ios, Desktop.
Gatsby	Current: 5.12.9	A free and open-source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing-fast websites and apps. Creates fast, responsive, and secure dynamic web applications.	Used to create static websites, hybrid static & server-rendered sites, and full React applications.
Meteor.js	Introduced: January 20, 2012 Current: 2.13.3	full stack JavaScript platform that is used for developing modern web and mobile applications. It has a set of features that are helpful in creating a responsive and reactive web or mobile application.	Allows you to develop in one langauge that is JavaScript itself. Helps in data on write means server renders the dat a not HTML.
MithrilJS	Current: 2.2.2	Client-side JavaScript framework used to create a single-page application. Size is very less and covers all the features.	Provides DOM Elements, Components, Routing, and XHR.

FAQs

1. What is user interface?

A user interface is the point at which a user interact with the screen provided by the developer. It can be a web page in which the present buttons, links, icons, and text all are the part of UI. All the elements or any functionality that is done by the user interaction of output devices like mouse and keyboard and reports any changes are the part of UI.

2. What is useState?

It is the hook in reactjs which is used to manage the state. It keeps track of chnages in a component and you can learn more about reactjs useState hook here.

3. What do you mean by SPAs?

SAP stands for Single Page Application and it’s a type of web application or website. It helps to interact user to it’s web page. SPA is basically helps to fast reloading the page and it also prevents the redirect of a new page. It prevents reloading of a page while clicking any button on a web page and present a new component.

4. What is the differenece between span and div?

The span and the div are different as the span in an inline element and div is a block element which means the div will take all the space present horizontally rather than the width of present content in this while span will not take the whole present horizontal space rather it will occupie the space that is only required by the present content in it.

5. What is preprocessor?

Preprocessor is a program that process the input data and produce an output. that output can be used by another program as an input. for e.g. SASS it takes CSS as an input and also provide many other functoinalies to it and after compilation of that given input it produce the simplified version of CSS.