The OpenJS Foundation is an organization that was founded in 2019 from a merger of JS Foundation and Node.js Foundation. OpenJS promotes the

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and web ecosystem by hosting projects and funds activities that benefit the ecosystem. The OpenJS Foundation is made up of 38 open source JavaScript projects including

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Dojo A is a hall or place for immersive learning, experiential learning, or meditation. This is traditionally in the field of martial arts. The term literally means "place of the Tao, Way" in Japanese language, Japanese. History The word ''d� ...

, jQuery, Node.js,

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and

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. Founding members included

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, and

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. OpenJS has received over 800,000 Euros from Germany's

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History

jQuery projects

Prior to the jQuery Foundation, the jQuery project was a member of the

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since 2009. Earlier that same year, jQuery published the Sizzle selector engine software as a spin-off from jQuery itself, and donated its copyright to the Dojo Foundation to encourage collaboration.

jQuery Foundation

jQuery Foundation was founded in 2012 as

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non-profit organization to support the development of the jQuery and

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projects. jQuery is the most widely adopted

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according to web analysis as of 2012. The jQuery Foundation also advocates on behalf of

web developers A web developer is a programmer who develops World Wide Web applications using a client–server model. The applications typically use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in the client, and any general-purpose programming language in the server. is used ...

to improve

web standards Web standards are the formal, non-proprietary standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of st ...

through its memberships in the

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, and Ecma TC39 (JavaScript). It created a standards collaboration team in 2011 and joined the W3C in 2013. In 2016, the Dojo Foundation merged with jQuery Foundation and subsequently rebranded itself as JS Foundation and became a

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project. JS Foundation (legally ''JSFoundation, Inc'') existed from 2016 to 2019, and aimed to help development and adoption of important

technology. The foundation worked to facilitate collaboration within the JavaScript development community to "foster JavaScript applications and server-side projects by providing best practices and policies."

Node.js Foundation

The Node.js Foundation was created in 2015 as a

project to accelerate the development of the Node.js platform. The Node.js Foundation operated under an open-governance model to heighten participation amongst vendors, developers, and the general Node.js community. Its structure gives enterprise users the assurance of "innovation and continuity without risk." Its growth led to new initiatives such as the ''Node Security Platform'', a tool allowing continuous security monitoring for Node.js apps. And ''Node Interactive'', "a series of ''professional'' conferences aimed at today's average Node.js user." Node.js reports "3.5 million users and an annual growth rate of 100 percent" and the Node.js Foundation is reported as being among The Linux Foundation's fastest growing projects. In 2019, the Node.js Foundation merged with the JS Foundation to form the new OpenJS Foundation with a stated mission to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem as a whole.

Projects

* The

Dojo Foundation Dojo Toolkit (stylized as dōjō toolkit) is an open-source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross-platform, JavaScript/Ajax-based applications and web sites. It was st ...

(prior to 2016) was most notably home to the

Dojo Toolkit Dojo Toolkit (stylized as dōjō toolkit) is an open-source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross-platform, JavaScript/ Ajax-based applications and web sites. It was ...

. It was also host to

Lodash Lodash is a JavaScript library which provides utility functions for common programming tasks using the functional programming paradigm. History ''See also Underscore § History.'' Lodash is a fork of Underscore.js. It joined the Dojo Fo ...

, RequireJS, and other projects created by the Dojo community. * The jQuery Foundation (2012-2016), was host to the original jQuery projects such as jQuery,

, Sizzle and

QUnit QUnit is a JavaScript framework for unit testing. Originally developed for testing jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile, it is a generic framework for testing any JavaScript code. It supports client-side environments in web browsers, and server ...

. In 2015 the

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project joined and Globalize was launched. In 2016, the

ESLint ESLint is a static code analysis tool for identifying problematic patterns found in JavaScript code. It was created by Nicholas C. Zakas in 2013. Rules in ESLint are configurable, and customized rules can be defined and loaded. ESLint covers bot ...

project joined. * The JS Foundation (2016-2019) attracted additional projects. In 2016,

joined, and

was contributed by IBM in 2016.

References

External links

* {{JavaScript Free software project foundations based in the United States Linux Foundation projects Organizations established in 2019 Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco JavaScript