Intro to MochiKit

About this Presentation

MochiKit is a JavaScript library that allows you to accomplish what you need to do quickly, without getting bogged down by the deficiencies in JavaScript and its various implementations. This intro will bring you up to speed with the library, and give you an overview of what others are building with it.

Using MochiKit as a base platform for JavaScript approximates the experience that many of us are used to from highly evolved environments such as Python or Ruby. In order to stay out of your way as much as possible, MochiKit accomplishes this while still maintaining compatibility with other JavaScript libraries and staying close to sensible JavaScript idioms and design practices.

In addition to providing a sensible base for pure JavaScript development, it also provides browser-specific (yet implementation independent) APIs for events, DOM, XMLHttpRequest, JSON, query strings, etc.