Pretty open ended question. Just trying to see what cool stuff is out there to play around with.
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#2Cappuccino (with Objective-J). One of those, 'so batsh#t crazy, it's brilliant' things. Note they are one of those that make a distinction between a library and framework.
http://280north.com http://www.cappuccino-project.org http://arstechnica.com/apple/2008/06/cocoa-on-the-web-280-no...
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#3Define "cool"? Ease of use? Length of features list? What?
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#4Async: https://github.com/caolan/async - it helps avoid callback hell. I use it in node.js.
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#5Bacon.js: https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js -- functional reactive programming in javascript. It's another way out of callback hell when doing UI work.
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#6I'm a huge fan of Enyo (http://enyojs.com). It's stupid-easy to get a native-feeling app running that works across (nearly) every modern device. Mostly, I love its UI components (which are expanded by the associated Onyx library), which means I have less lines of code to write -- which is always better.
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#7Seems like a reasonable time to self promote
PouchDB is a full reimplementation of CouchDB inside the browser (using browser storage), you can build applications that work offline then sync your data with 'the cloud'
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#8TypeScript. Fastest JS parser I've seen (at least in JS compared to coffeescript, esprima, narcissus, etc), bootstrapped in its own language, great type checker/inferencer, easy to follow codebase.
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#9fuckit.js: https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs
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