Prototype Javascript Framework

The folks over at thoughtbot, inc. have released Jester, an almost identical port of Rails’ ActiveResource to JavaScript.

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In the spirit of our Who’s Using Prototype section, we’d like to add a new section to this site featuring a sample of the best built-with-Prototype third-party libraries available out there.

As we want to make this useful for Prototype users, rewarding for library developers and maintainable (seriously, how frustrating is it to read the description of a lib and find out that the link to it is broken), we’ll keep the number of displayed libraries to a reasonable amount. So there will be some selection.

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Wow, what an exciting first couple of days. Yesterday alone, we received about 100,000 page views and the responses were overwhelmingly positive. Amongst those responses, we’ve learned of a couple folks who are working on, or have created, some tools for the documentation. I want to throw out a couple of ideas here, and talk about how developers can make use of the docs. In addition to that, let’s find out what tools are already available to help you work with Prototype and JavaScript in general.

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