Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there? • Hacker News Board

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Re: Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

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Post by dccoolgai » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 4:48 AM UTC

skrollr is pretty badass, IMO.

Re: Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 4:49 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

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Post by dccoolgai » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 4:51 AM UTC

byoung2 wrote: post #4

Async: https://github.com/caolan/async - it helps avoid callback hell. I use it in node.js.

Agreed..I am starting to feel that you can't even do node right w/o it.

Re: Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

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Post by maxtardiveau » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 4:56 AM UTC

I'd vote for AngularJS. It's just very clever. Kudos to the Google folks who came up with it.

Re: Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

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Post by tomasien » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 4:58 AM UTC

I know this is a crap answer to this question, but for me what is "cool" is what can easily do things that I think are awesome. For me, that's Angular.js.

http://angularjs.org/ Angular UI is amazing http://angular-ui.github.com/ And Angular for Bootstrap is also amazing http://angular-ui.github.com/bootstrap/

I'm not a great programmer, so that's what excites me. It's flexible enough that as you get better as a programmer, you can plug that right in.

And that's what I think is cool.

Re: Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

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Post by kingkool68 » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 4:58 AM UTC

I like TinySort which is a no-frills jQuery plugin to sort HTML elements. Great for data tables -> http://tinysort.sjeiti.com/

Speaking of data tables, I wrote a little function to make table headers sticky so they stay at the top of the viewport as you scroll down a large table. https://github.com/kingkool68/stickyHeader No options, just include on the page, add a class of stickyHeader on the table and you're done.