jQuery Roundup: Fuel UX, uiji.js, QuoJS
Fuel UX
Fuel UX (GitHub: ExactTarget / fuelux, License: MIT) from ExactTarget is a lightweight library that extends Twitter Bootstrap with some additional JavaScript controls, a Grunt build, and AMD compatibility. At launch, the following controls are included:
- Combobox - combines input and dropdown for easy and flexible data selection
- Datagrid - renders data in a table with paging, sorting, and searching
- Pillbox - manages selected items with color-coded text labels
- Search - combines input and button for integrated search interaction
- Spinner - provides convenient numeric input with increment and decrement buttons
The project is well-documented, covered in unit tests, and outside contributions are welcome and encouraged.
Contributed by Adam Alexander
uiji.js
uiji.js (GitHub: aakilfernandes / uiji) by Aakil Fernandes is a clever hack that inverts jQuery by allowing CSS selectors to create elements. This will create a paragraph with the class greeting, that contains the text Hello World!:
$('#helloWorld .output').uiji('p.greeting"Hello World!"')
Callbacks can be used to create hierarchy, and the API is chainable because the plugin returns $(this) once it has processed the input.
QuoJS
QuoJS (GitHub: soyjavi / QuoJS, License: MIT) by Javier Jiménez is a small library for mobile development. It supports HTML traversal and abstractions for touch-based gestures. It doesn’t require jQuery, but has a similar API:
// Subscribe to a tap event with a callback
$$('p').tap(function() {
// Affects "span" children/grandchildren
$$('span', this).style('color', 'red');
});
The same author has written a few other ambitious projects, including Monocle (GitHub: soyjavi / monocle, License: MIT), which is an MVC framework for CoffeeScript application development.
