The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source CDNJS (Interview)
Jun 21, 2011
37:43
Adam and Wynn caught up with the developers behind CDNJS, a community-powered CDN for JavaScript libraries.
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Show Notes:
- CDNJS aims to make the web faster by putting more shared JavaScript on a content delivery network.
- We’re now part of the Fusion Network
- Catch up with us at The Big (D)esign Conference
- We’ll be at Lone Star Ruby Conference 2011
- Ryan Kirkman, Co-Founder of Protosal.
- Thomas Davis, Co-Founder of Protosal, also runs backbonetutorials.com
- Fork the GitHub project to get your script included
- A CDN helps serve assets from servers closer to the user.
- CloudFlare sponsors the project.
- Cached Commons has some of the same goals, but uses GitHub as a provider.
- CDNJS packages uses the same format as NPM
- The Google Library API hosts most of the major JavaScript frameworks.
- Microjs is a micro-site for micro-frameworks
- Protosal lets you generate proposals using templates and variables to save time.
- cdnjs-command is a Ruby gem command line helper for CDNJS.
- Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for client-side JavaScript.
- Brunch A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity.
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