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Backbone.js. As should be expected for a DocumentCloud project, Backbone is a concise, elegant and educational take on the JavaScript MVC pattern. Depends on Underscore.js and plays well with jQuery.

# 13th October 2010, 5:23 pm / documentcloud, javascript, jquery, mvc, underscore, backbone, recovered

Underscore.js. A new library of functional programming primitives for JavaScript—each, map, all, any, inject, detect etc. Unlike some similar libraries this one doesn’t extend the built-in objects, instead opting to bind the new functions to the underscore symbol. A jQuery-style noConflict() option is available if even that is too much namespace pollution for you.

# 28th October 2009, 5:08 pm / documentcloud, functional, javascript, jquery, noconflict, underscore