About the benefits of JSDB

First of all, we note a possible misunderstanding: today we will not talk about the engine that is known to the old-timers of javascript programming called JSDB and is still located at JSDB.org . That engine, based on Mozill's SpiderMonkey , although it had rich capabilities for accessing databases, email and the Internet, but after the appearance of a much more frisky “competitor” (Node.js), it gradually fell into utter oblivion, so to say I have nothing about him today.

Instead, I intend to suddenly draw your attention to the database of javascript libraries that appeared this February (2013) at JSDB.ioand is open to readers. (I am writing “surprise” because you already had some opportunity to pay attention to JSDB : first, mourner mentioned it on Twitter at his Leaflet library, and then alexzfort mentioned it in the digest of new products last week.)

What makes JSDB happy? Well-thought-out interface and widespread use of AJAX to make changes to pages without reloading. (As a result, the interface turns out, for example, to be much more interactive and convenient than the thematically similar jswiki wiki or the JavaScript Territory generated by this wiki site".) At first, listing the open source libraries on JSDB seems like a simple list. However, since JSDB accepts open source libraries on the Github, JSDB has a nice opportunity to respond by clicking on the title of a particular javascript library by automatically opening the information panel with a brief description of the library, with counting its forks and stars and participants in its development at Github. (This panel unfolds at the place of the pressed item, pushing the rest of the list items.) The Readme tab will please the thorough reader even more, which allows for downloading the entire Readme file of the selected library from Github for reference without leaving JSDB for this.

What benefits does the JSDB site bring? But this: its contents serve as an expander of horizons. If you don’t follow the development of modern open source code, you’ll miss the appearance of a couple of libraries (or mark them in the bud as hopeless, but over time they will develop into something unusually convenient), so it’s useful to meet them on JSDB and get to know with their productive capabilities.

It is clear that each of the readers of such a list of a couple of libraries of two , on JSDB with interest discovered, will be his own. They do not argue about tastes. For the information of readers, I considered, however, it is not superfluous to list half a dozen of my finds.

• Mousetrap is an interesting library for conveniently handling keyboard events. (Earlier on Habrahabr, I was surveyed by the koshak blogger , but then I somehow did not have time to try it out.)
   
• Fuel UX : additional and (or) sophisticated interface elements for Twitter Bootstrap. Of these, not all and not all will be useful - but who are useful, for those thanks to their authors. (Earlier on Habrahabr, they were viewed by the INCWADRA blogger , but either not all, or since then there have been more.)
   
• The same can be said about the jQuery ++ library : not all elements of its code (jQuery plugins) can come in handy; but which come in handy, they will bring many benefits, saving the efforts of a web developer. (Earlier on Habrahabr were mentioned by the blogger alexzfort in the digest for June 2012.)
   
• Toolbar.js is another plugin for jQuery, capable of forming “pop-up” panels with several “tools”.
   
• The jQuery prettyCheckable plugin serves as a spectacular and colorful stylist for checkmarks and radio buttons, and its elegant colors correspond to the Twitter Bootstrap color scheme. (Earlier on Habrahabr it was not mentioned .)

And what do you find in JSDB for yourself?