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Choosing a javascript framework

posted under category: General on May 10, 2006 by Nathan

I've been thinking about choosing a javascript framework for a few weeks now, and, having no experience using any, so I was hoping for suggestions.

Frameworks on my radar are Prototype, Dojo, Scriptaculous, MochiKit, and I've briefly hit up the frameworks page on the Ajax Patterns wiki, but have become pretty completely overwhelmed.

Does anyone actually use OSS JS Frameworks? For all of my projects, so far, I have always built my own from scratch, but I'd love to build on the work that a lot of others have already put in.

Nathan is a software developer at The Boeing Company in Charleston, SC. He is essentially a big programming nerd. Really, you could say that makes him a nerd among nerds. Aside from making software for the web, he plays with tech toys and likes to think about programming's big picture while speaking at conferences and generally impressing people with massive nerdiness and straight-faced sarcastic humor. Nathan got his programming start writing batch files in DOS. It should go without saying, but these thought and opinions have nothing to do with Boeing in any way.
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