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What benefits are there to native JavaScript development?

Given how much simpler jQuery development is, when compared to native JavaScript, what makes people forgo libraries like jQuery altogether? Is this because jQuery has limitations or it is slow? I ...
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What's the Best Way to Release a Small Open Source JavaScript Library?

I wrote a nice little open source JavaScript color library called color.js. I think it's handy, and I believe other people would find it useful. What's the best approach for letting the world know ...
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Licensing a JavaScript library

I am developing a free, open-source (duh) JavaScript library, and wondering how to license it. I was considering the GNU GPL, but I heard that I must distribute the license with the software, and I'm ...
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Are there open-source JavaScript libraries addressing multiple browser tabs and client state for newer browsers?

There are a few new HTML5 features that have made it into recent browsers that allow sharing state among tabs, browser windows, same domain windows, etc. So it's probably gotten a little easier to ...
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Is it a good idea to build a library on top of somebody else's library?

Is it a good idea to use somebody else's library as a base and build your own library over that. I want to make a JavaScript Canvas framework for a animation player on top of KineticJS. Should I do ...
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What's a good javascript library for drawing shapes and connections

What is a good javascript library (for use with Ruby on Rails) for drawing shapes and dynamic connections (lines connecting shapes that adjust as you move the shapes)?
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Advice on JavaScript library for visualizing Yahoo Pipe Output

I'm currently writing a JavaScript library. It is a project for school were I need to make it easier to visualize data from Yahoo Pipes. The data format is a JSON string, which can contain anything, ...
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Will any js libraries be updating api's with html5 under the hood?

So there is a lot of cool stuff in the html5/css3 specs which should be able to replace a lot of the stuff that have been traditionally done with javascript. Does anyone know if any of the major js ...
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How best to implement HTML5 support for my validation library

I have created an annotation-based validation library called regula. There seems to be some amount of interest around the framework and the next thing I'd like to do is to support HTML5 validation. ...
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Why did javascript libraries like knockoutjs, backbonejs, and angularjs only come out in 2010?

Being a relatively new web-developer I am surprised that these libraries didn't exist before. Is there a particular technical or historical reason that at around Sep 2010, a sudden development and ...