Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You

Library

• Performs a specific operation
• Re-usable code or a collection of routines
• Easier to swap out if one library doesn’t work, swapping a Framework could be like starting a project over

Framework

• The skeleton that helps structure the meat
• Provides your code with a frame (saves time)
• Helps add consistency to the project
• Can contain a library

Don’t Call us:

Framework: You don’t ask the framework to do anything, it waits for your code and then runs it through it’s skeleton and prints it to the page.

We’ll Call You:

Library: You ask the library to help you do a specific task by calling it.

Reading Material

• (A few) Framework Comparisons https://www.airpair.com/js/javascript-framework-comparison
• 2 Libraries and a Framework for 2015 http://www.sitepoint.com/3-javascript-libraries-keep-eye-2015/
• Very simple example of Angular http://codepen.io/martinwolf/pen/LmpeH

Links to Frameworks & Libraries discussed at the Meetup

• Node (framework): https://nodejs.org/
• NodeSchool (lots ‘o tutorials): http://nodeschool.io/
• React (library for UI): http://facebook.github.io/react/index.html
• Firebase (data storage & backend support): https://www.firebase.com/
• Vue (Library): http://vuejs.org/
• D3 (Data Visualization): http://d3js.org/
• C3 (Data Visualization): http://c3js.org/
• Meteor (Framework): https://www.meteor.com/install
• Mean (Full Stack JS - Mongo DB, Express, Angular, Node): http://mean.io/#!/
• Yeoman (Kickstart Projects quickly): http://yeoman.io/