List of useful front-end libraries, frameworks and developer tools

List of useful front-end libraries, frameworks and developer tools

Custom elements:

• Chosen. Custom selects, autocompleters - http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
• Bootstrap (Twitter). Html, css components, layout - http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
• iSroll. Custom scroll - http://cubiq.org/iscroll - very slow on android, do not use it - for mobile

Frameworks:

• Backbone. Js MVC framework -  http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/ - for mobile
• Zepto. Light-weight (5kb) jQuery compatible framework - http://zeptojs.com/ - for mobile

Tools:

• YepNope. Dynamic js\resource loader - http://yepnopejs.com/ -  for mobile
• Mockjax. Stubs for jQuery $.ajax requests (when WS is not ready; allows to emulate all HTTP error statuses etc) - https://github.com/appendto/jquery-mockjax
• YUI Compressor. Js, css minifier - http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/