Craft

Craft.js is a lightweight & extensible JavaScript framework that handles much of the boilerplate you want to get rid of. Craft makes JavaScript development much quicker and lets you keep your code clean and performant.

Compatibility

Craft is compatible with all of the major browsers. (IE : 6+, Firefox : 3.6+, Safari : 4+, Chrome, Opera : 8+)

API

Available on craftjs.org.

Tests

Available on craftjs.org/tests.

Get it

git clone https://github.com/mlbli/Craft.git

Build

grunt concat

Minify

grunt min

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012, Matthias Le Brun

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Acknowledgement

Prototype.js for its inspiring API (you can see Craft.js as a Prototype-lite even if it doesn't target the same usages).

Changelog

15/11/2012 : Added Event.listen & Event.stopListening to let window be listened.

14/11/2012 :

• Function.prototype is not overwritten anymore :

  • (function(){}).bind -> (function(){}).attach

• For a better understanding :

  • (function(){}).curry -> (function(){}).partial

• Unit tests added.

13/11/2012 :

• Array.prototype is not overwritten anymore :

  • [].forEach -> [].each
  • [].map -> [].collect
  • [].filter -> [].select
  • [].indexOf -> [].map
  • [].reduce -> [].fold

• [].fold now accepts undefined as initial value.

• Craft.noConflict added to stock $ in Craft.$ and in any variable if needed.

12/11/2012 : Element ready now acts like an event callback (errors thrown inside don't stop the others callbacks).

09/11/2012 : New Element API (check the docs)

03/11/2012 : Fixed IE issue when using Hash#get and DOM#get with DOM elements in IE.

02/11/2012 :

• Added nesting support for DOM#get and Hash#get (such as myEl.get("foo.bar"))
• Made DOM, AJAX, and Hash constructor invokable without new keyword.

01/11/2012 : Changed Craft.Browser.isChrome and Craft.Browser.isSafari to Craft.Browser.isWebkit

31/10/2012 : Added possibility to pass a DOM object as first argument of DOM#insert

31/10/2012 : Made Array.prototype polyfills compatible with ES5

29/10/2012 : Added DOM#getElement method

26/10/2012 : Fixed IE issues

24/10/2012 : Fixed DOM#serialize issue

18/10/2012 :

• Removed Function#toHandler and created Event.stop(eventObject) instead.
• Fixed Craft.AJAX issues.
• Craft.AJAX#send has been rename to Craft.AJAX#update.
• API created

17/10/2012 : Initial commit.