MooTools
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| Developer(s) | The MooTools Dev Team |
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| Initial release | March 7, 2007 |
| Stable release |
1.6.0 / January 14, 2016
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| Written in | JavaScript |
| Type | Ajax framework / JavaScript Framework |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | mootools |
MooTools (My Object-Oriented Tools) is a lightweight, object-oriented JavaScript framework. It is released under the free, open-source MIT License.
Valerio Proietti first authored the framework and released it in September 2006 taking as his inspiration Prototype and Dean Edward's base2. MooTools originated from Moo.fx, a popular JavaScript effects library released in October 2005 by Valerio Proietti as an add-on to the Prototype Javascript Framework. which is still maintained and used. It can be used as a lighter alternative to script.aculo.us or other, bigger libraries. It provides simple, basic effects, and guarantees a small library size.
Whereas Prototype extended—prototyped—many of JavaScript's native String, Array, and Function objects with additional methods, Proietti desired a framework that (at the time) further extended the native Element object as well to offer greater control of the Document Object Model (DOM).
MooTools includes a number of components, but not all need to be loaded for each application. Some of the component categories are:
MooTools is compatible and tested with:
MooTools provides the user with a number of advantages over native JavaScript. These include:
The framework includes built-in functions for manipulation of CSS, DOM elements, native JavaScript objects, Ajax requests, DOM effects, and more. MooTools also provides a detailed, coherent application programming interface (API) as well as a custom downloads module allowing developers to download only the modules and dependencies they need for a particular app.
Every JavaScript framework has its philosophy, and MooTools is interested in taking full advantage of the flexibility and power of JavaScript in a way that emphasizes greater modularity and code reuse. MooTools accomplishes these goals in a way that is intuitive to a developer coming from a class-based inheritance language like Java with the MooTools Class object.
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