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xaraya

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Xaraya download | SourceForge.net

Xaraya is a PHP-based open-source CMS framework that emphasizes security through strict input validation and granular permission controls, allowing administrators to grant or deny access at both broad and specific levels. The platform provides extensibility through modules and blocks, a custom templating system called BlockLayout, and dynamic data objects that users can create or customize without deep technical knowledge. Built-in multilingual support and a robust API make it suitable for developers building scalable, localized web applications across multiple cloud providers.

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Electron

Electron is a framework that combines Chromium and Node.js to enable developers to build desktop applications using JavaScript and web technologies, running natively across macOS, Windows, and Linux. The framework handles difficult infrastructure tasks like native UI integration, automatic updates, crash reporting, and installer generation, allowing developers to focus on application logic while choosing from popular front-end libraries like React, Vue, or Angular. Electron Forge provides a streamlined toolkit for bootstrapping and publishing apps, while Electron Fiddle offers an interactive environment for experimenting with the framework before committing to full development.

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MacGap

MacGap is a framework that lets web developers build native macOS applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript instead of Swift or Objective-C, running code within OS X's WebView engine. It provides a lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration features like native notifications and file system access, while remaining under 1MB in size and fully compatible with Mac App Store submission requirements. The project includes an Xcode template and documentation to help developers get started converting web projects into standalone Mac applications.

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QUnit

QUnit is a JavaScript testing framework that requires minimal setup and runs across multiple environments including browsers, Node.js, and Web Workers, making it possible to test code in its actual runtime context. The framework provides straightforward APIs for writing assertions and tests, along with extensible options for custom runners and reporters to adapt to different project needs. Version 2.26.0 is available through direct download, npm, or Yarn, with documentation and community support accessible through their official channels.

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Metalsmith

Metalsmith is a Node.js-based static site generator that treats file directories as JavaScript objects, allowing you to manipulate and transform them through a flexible plugin system. Rather than forcing projects into a specific framework mold, it supports both configuration-file and code-based approaches, handles common tasks like markdown conversion and templating, and can be extended to build not just websites but also scaffolders, build tools, and documentation generators. The output is simply a static folder deployable anywhere—CDNs, GitHub Pages, or custom servers.

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jQuery Sheetrock

Sheetrock is a JavaScript library that allows developers to use Google Sheets as a database, querying and displaying data in web or Node.js applications without requiring any dependencies. It supports SQL-like queries for filtering, sorting, and grouping, as well as lazy-loading of large datasets and integration with templating engines like Handlebars. The library requires only a public Google Sheet URL with a single header row and plain text formatting to function.

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Ratchet - PHP WebSockets

Ratchet is a PHP WebSocket library that enables real-time, event-driven communication applications as an alternative to traditional HTTP request/response patterns. It features a modular component architecture for building functionality incrementally, maintains PSR-4 compliance for compatibility with other PHP frameworks like Symfony, and passes all WebSocket browser compatibility tests.

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Bootswatch: Flatly

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Fathom.js

Fathom.js is a jQuery plugin that turns HTML slides into an interactive presentation controlled via keyboard, mouse, or custom JavaScript interfaces, with optional video synchronization. The tool requires only simple div markup for slides and can be configured to display one slide at a time or multiple slides in a continuous scrollable view. It provides callback hooks and methods for creating custom navigation controls and syncing presentation slides to Vimeo videos through a timeline array.

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JSDB.io - The Database of JavaScript Libraries

This is a product marketing page for RxDB, a NoSQL database designed for JavaScript applications that stores data locally on the client side and syncs with backends, enabling apps to function fully offline with zero-latency queries. The page emphasizes RxDB's cross-platform compatibility, real-time synchronization capabilities, and appeal to developers building field applications in areas with poor internet connectivity, supported by case studies from companies like Readwise, SafeEx, and WooCommerce POS.

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FullCalendar - Full-sized Calendar jQuery Plugin

FullCalendar is a widely-used JavaScript calendar library available for multiple frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, and vanilla JavaScript) that offers extensive customization through over 300 settings and a modular plugin system. The documentation provides installation instructions and basic setup examples for each framework, demonstrating how to create a calendar with month, week, and day view options. With over 9 million monthly NPM downloads and a commitment to maintaining a free open-source core while offering premium plugins for enhanced functionality, it serves as a comprehensive solution for integrating calendar functionality into web applications.

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elclanrs/jq-idealforms · GitHub

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OJ - Unified Templating

CSJS is a JavaScript library that treats web interfaces as objects, unifying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript templating into a single abstraction layer. It includes built-in support for common UI components like lists and tables, integrates with Backbone.js for data binding, and can run both client-side and server-side (with Node.js support in progress).

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ChocolateChip-UI

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intention.js

Intention.js is a lightweight DOM manipulation library that enables responsive design by restructuring HTML elements and attributes based on measurable device contexts—such as viewport width, orientation, touch capability, and pixel density—rather than relying solely on CSS media queries. The library works through HTML attributes that specify how elements should be modified (via class changes, attribute swaps, or DOM repositioning) when specific contexts are detected, and it supports custom contexts based on any quantifiable measurement. Developed at Dow Jones and requiring jQuery and Underscore.js, it allows developers to keep layout logic closer to the markup itself, reducing stylesheet complexity and increasing flexibility across different device types.

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Bootstrap 3 released · Bootstrap Blog

Bootstrap 3.0 launched with a complete redesign centered on mobile-first, responsive design as the default approach rather than an optional feature. Key improvements include a flatter aesthetic, a revamped grid system with four responsive tiers, better box model defaults, rewritten JavaScript plugins with better namespacing, new icon fonts replacing image-based glyphicons, and streamlined documentation covering accessibility and browser support. The update involved nearly nine months of work from 319 contributors, resulted in a 20% reduction in minified CSS size, and dropped support for older browsers like Internet Explorer 7.

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