What is CanJS?
CanJS is an evolving and improving set of client-side JavaScript architectural libraries that balances innovation and stability. It targets experienced developers building complex applications with long futures ahead of them.
CanJS is a tool in the Javascript MVC Frameworks category of a tech stack.
CanJS is an open source tool with 1.9K GitHub stars and 423 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CanJS's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses CanJS?
Companies
Developers
9 developers on StackShare have stated that they use CanJS.
CanJS Integrations
Node.js, npm, Slack, AngularJS, and Discourse are some of the popular tools that integrate with CanJS. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with CanJS.
CanJS's Features
- Community Driven Development
- Tree-shakeable JavaScript Module Builds
- Simple model mixins
CanJS Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to CanJS?
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
DoneJS
It is an open source JavaScript framework that makes it easy to build high performance, real time web and mobile applications. It is used to make beautiful, real-time user interfaces that can be exported to run on every platform.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
