APE JavaScript Library Monday, 5 May 2008

Frustrated with every other JavaScript framework, I have decided to write something better.

Points

• Minimal Framework, mainly used for AOP and OOP functionality
• All code is tested using YUI Test (TDD)
• AOP Event System with asynchronous error handling
• Namespacing
• Modularity, Cohesion, Packaging
• No browser detection
• JSDoc

Here it is: APE JavaScript Library

Testing

By using a test driven approach, I was able to avoid problems that I found in other libraries.

APE Core

The core of APE is so small that the overhead of adding APE to a project is significantly less than that of other libraries.

I generally don't like a lot of the libraries that use a "GOD" object approach. These objects can be recognized by being undefinable by more than a few words. The approach is quite popular and annoys me to no end. How do you describe the dojo object, for example?

The APE object itself is defined in APE.js, providing only the most basic things that a framework would need: 1) Object creational features, and 2) a core namespace. Although some might argue that a library core needs more than that.

The APE object is only 3k minified and less than 1k gzipped. The size is not the point. The point is that APE is not a kitchen-sink, or God object.

Help Wanted

You can join, too! Here's what APE needs:

New Features

There is much more that can be added. For example, some ADT's: Resizable (croppers, windows), FormSerializer.

SVN and Bugzilla

I still need to add hosted SVN to the directories and install bugzilla.

Performance Tests

I've always been big on performance, and not just for JavaScript but all areas of life, and I am very competitive in nature.

APE needs benchmarks to compare with other libraries. This will provide useful analysis for other library authors who aspire to have code that is as performant as that in APE.

Anyone interested in joining this project contact dhtmlkitchen - at - gmail - dot - com.

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