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A Ajax : a technology for asynchronous HTTP requests

: a technology for asynchronous requests AMD : a standard defining how to load JavaScript libraries or modules asynchronously

: a standard defining how to load JavaScript libraries or modules asynchronously AngularJS: a structural framework for dynamic web apps

Apache Cordova: a popular mobile application development framework originally created by Nitobi

Arity: the number of arguments of a function

B Babel: a JavaScript transformation toolkit which started as an ECMAScript 2015 / ES6 code translator (transpiler)

code translator (transpiler) Backbone: a structural framework for dynamic web apps

BEM : a methodology and libraries developed and used at Yandex for building user interfaces

: a methodology and libraries developed and used at Yandex for building user interfaces Bluebird: a fully featured Promise library with focus on innovative features and performance

Bower: a package manager for front-end dependencies

Broccoli: a fast and reliable asset pipeline

Browserify: a tool making possible to use the `require` function from Node.js within the browser

Brunch: a tool focusing on the production of deployment-ready files from development files

C Canvas: an HTML element for graphic applications in 2D or 3D

element for graphic applications in 2D or 3D Chai: an assertion library used with a JavaScript testing framework

Chakra: a JavaScript engine developed by Microsoft for its Edge browser which could also be used with Node.js instead of V8.

Closure: a way of referencing variables from a child function while retaining their value even if it changes in the parent function

Closure Compiler: a JavaScript checker and optimizer

Coffeescript: a language that compiles into JavaScript

CommonJS: a project with the goal of specifying an ecosystem for JavaScript outside the browser (for example, on the server or for native desktop applications)

CORS : a way for a server to make things accessible to pages hosted on other domains

: a way for a server to make things accessible to pages hosted on other domains CouchDB: a NoSQL database with JavaScript as query language and HTTP as API

as Currying: the process to transform a function with multiple parameters into a chain of functions of one parameter each

D D3.js: a library for manipulating documents based on data

date-fns: a JavaScript date utility library.

Design Patterns: a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design

DOM : a platform- and language-neutral interface that allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents

E ECMAScript ( ES ): the standardized specification of the scripting language used by JavaScript

): the standardized specification of the scripting language used by JavaScript Electron: a framework based on Node.js lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JS , HTML and CSS

, and Ember: an application framework based on the model-view-controller pattern

Enzyme: a JavaScript Testing utility for React developed by AirBnB that makes it easier to assert, manipulate, and traverse React components’ output.

ESLint: a JavaScript code linter

Express: a fast, un-opinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

Ext JS : a pure JavaScript application framework for building interactive cross platform web applications

F Facade Pattern: a software design pattern commonly used with object-oriented programming. The name is by analogy to an architectural facade

Factory Pattern: a creational pattern that uses factory methods to deal with the problem of creating objects without having to specify the exact class of the object that will be created

Falcor: a JavaScript library for efficient data fetching

Flow: a static type checker, designed to find type errors in JavaScript programs

Flux: an application structure focusing on improved data flow

Four: a framework to develop 3D content for the web

G GraphQL: a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data.

Grunt: a task runner aiming at automating tedious and possibly complex tasks

Gulp: a task runner aiming at automating tedious and possibly complex tasks

H Hapi: a Node JS framework for writing services and more

framework for writing services and more Hoisting: an action performed by the JavaScript interpreter that moves function and variable declarations to the top of their containing scope

I IIFE : a function that gets called immediately after declaration

: a function that gets called immediately after declaration Ionic: a HTML5 mobile framework to build beautiful hybrid native mobile applications using AngularJS and Cordova

mobile framework to build beautiful hybrid native mobile applications using AngularJS and Cordova Isomorphic: an application is said to be isomorphic (universal) when its code can run both in the client and the server

J Jasmine: a testing framework for BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development)

(Behaviour-Driven Development) Jest: A unit testing framework

jQuery: a fast, small, and feature-rich client-side library

JSCS: a JavaScript code linter

JSHint: a JavaScript code linter

JSLint: a JavaScript code linter

JSON-LD : JSON for Linked Data

: for Linked Data JSON : a lightweight data-interchange format

: a lightweight data-interchange format JSPM: like npm with its own build system and multiple resources management

JSX: an XML -like syntax extension to JavaScript

K Knockout: a library that helps developers creating user interfaces with a clean underlying data model

L LocalForage: a fast and simple storage library for JavaScript

Lodash: an utility toolkit to extend JavaScript primitive types

M MEAN: the technology stack MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js (MEAN)

Mediator Pattern: an object that encapsulates how a set of objects interact

Memoize: an optimization used to speed up consecutive function calls by caching the result of calls with identical input

Metalsmith: a simple, pluggable static site generator

Meteor: a JavaScript web framework that allows rapid prototypic web development

Mocha: an extensible testing framework for TDD (Test-Driven Development) or BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development)

(Test-Driven Development) or (Behaviour-Driven Development) Modernizr: a browser feature detection library, useful to modify page styles when a feature is not available in the browser

Module Pattern: a design pattern used to implement the concept of software modules, defined by modular programming, in a programming language with incomplete direct support for the concept

Moment.js: a library to parse, validate, manipulate and display dates

MongoDB: a Javascript NoSQL database

MooTools: a collection of JavaScript utilities designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful and flexible code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent APIs

N Nightmare: a high-level browser automation library

NightwatchJS: a framework for browser automated testing

Node.js: a cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side applications built on V8 engine

npm: a utility to help publishing packages to, and installing from, an npm repository

nvm: a utility to help run multiple versions of Node.js on the same machine

O Observer Pattern: a software design pattern in which an object, called the subject, maintains a list of its dependents, called observers, and notifies them automatically of any state changes, usually by calling one of their methods

P Passport.js: a simple authentication middleware

PhantomJS: a scripted, headless browser used for automating web page interaction

Polymer: Google’s library for creating Web Components

PostCSS: a tool to transform CSS styles using JavaScript plugins; plugins include autoprefixer, future CSS transpiling, CSS linting and media queries

styles using JavaScript plugins; plugins include autoprefixer, future transpiling, linting and media queries Promise: a proxy for a value not necessarily known immediately but that will eventually be resolved

Prototype: a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. It offers a familiar class-style OO framework, extensive Ajax support, higher-order programming constructs, and easy DOM manipulation

framework, extensive support, higher-order programming constructs, and easy manipulation Prototype Pattern: a creational design pattern in software development. It is used when the type of objects to create is determined by a prototypical instance, which is cloned to produce new objects

Puppeteer: a scripted, headless browser used for automating web page interaction

Pure Function: a functional programming paradigm that ensures that a function has some strict properties.

Q Q: a library to create and manage promises

QUnit: a powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript unit testing framework

R Ramda: a practical functional library for JavaScript programmers

React: a library developed and used at Facebook for building user interfaces

Redux: a predictable state container for apps

RequireJS: a browser based module loader using AMD

Revealing Module Pattern: a design pattern conceptually based on the Module Pattern. The only difference is that the *revealing module pattern* was engineered as a way to ensure that all methods and variables are kept private until they are explicitly exposed

rnpm : a package manager to ease React Native development

: a package manager to ease React Native development RxJS: a library for asynchronous programming using observable streams

S Sails: a realtime MVC Framework for Node.js

Framework for Node.js Singleton Pattern: a design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to one object

T Three.js: a lightweight 3D library to create and display animated 3D computer graphics on a Web browser

TypeScript: a super-set of the JavaScript language that introduces types

U UMD : a pattern of universal module definition for JavaScript modules

: a pattern of universal module definition for JavaScript modules Underscore: a swiss army knife, focusing on helper methods for most built-in objects

Universal: an application is said to be universal (isomorphic) when its code can run both in the client and the server

V V8: Google’s open source JavaScript engine. It’s what Chrome is running, but it’s also used for other projects like Node.js and MongoDB

Vanilla: a term for library/framework free JavaScript

Virtual DOM : a pattern in which a JavaScript representation of the desired DOM is created and the framework sorts out the details of how to make it happen

: a pattern in which a JavaScript representation of the desired is created and the framework sorts out the details of how to make it happen VueJS: a library for creating user interfaces based on data models

W WebGL : a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins

: a JavaScript for rendering interactive 3D and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins Webpack: a dependency manager with a friendly and fast development environment, simplifying a lot of common tasks

X XHR : XMLHttpRequest is an API that provides client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server without page refresh

Y Yeoman: a generator builder to speed up the setup and installation process of a project or part of a project