The OpenJS Foundation is an organization that was founded in 2019 from a merger of JS Foundation and

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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 Appium,

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and

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. Founding members included

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, IBM,

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, and

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History

jQuery Foundation

jQuery Foundation was founded in 2012 as 501(c)(6) non-profit organization to support the development of the

and jQuery UI projects. jQuery is the most widely adopted

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according to web analysis as of 2012. Prior to the jQuery Foundation, the jQuery project was a member of the

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since 2009. 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

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through its memberships in the W3C, 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'') 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

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.

OpenJS Foundation

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 (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 st ...

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

, jQuery UI, Sizzle and

QUnit QUnit is a JavaScript unit testing framework. 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-s ...

. In 2015 the Grunt project joined and Globalize was launched. In 2016, the ESLint project joined. * The JS Foundation (2016-2019) attracted additional projects. In 2016, Appium joined, and

was contributed by IBM in 2016.

References

External links

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