Comments on: How Big is Your Javascript Library? http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/02/25/how-big-is-your-javascript-library/ My Experiences with Software Development Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:15:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brian Deacon http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/02/25/how-big-is-your-javascript-library/#comment-16910 Brian Deacon Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:41:33 +0000 http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/02/25/how-big-is-your-javascript-library/#comment-16910 Hey Brennan, All good points, a nice post. I'm sort of a newbie in this space, but I know that toolkits like DOJO and GWT also add an additional approach in only including in the download the portions of the library that you are actually using, which gives a big size benefit. GWT has a big focus on this, but that is pretty much a java solution, although technically you could include GWT in an ASP.Net application. But the team working on such a project would probably feel squiggly moving back and forth between a java-based GWT client-side code model and a .Net server-side model. The Java Posse had a good interview in episode 88 (http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=140955) where they talked about a lot of these issues. Brian Hey Brennan,

All good points, a nice post. I'm sort of a newbie in this space, but I know that toolkits like DOJO and GWT also add an additional approach in only including in the download the portions of the library that you are actually using, which gives a big size benefit. GWT has a big focus on this, but that is pretty much a java solution, although technically you could include GWT in an ASP.Net application. But the team working on such a project would probably feel squiggly moving back and forth between a java-based GWT client-side code model and a .Net server-side model.

The Java Posse had a good interview in episode 88 (http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=140955) where they talked about a lot of these issues.

Brian

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