This document is a community-driven attempt at explaining the loads of buzzwords making the current JavaScript ecosystem in a few simple words. The idea is not to replace individual documentations, but to act as some kind of glossary that can be easily referrenced.

If you are willing to contribute, open a pull request to complete, update or fill in a section. Thank you for doing so!

AngularJS section to be completed.

Babel section to be completed.

Backbone.js section to be completed.

Bower section to be completed.

Broccoli section to be completed.

Browserify section to be completed.

Brunch section to be completed.

CoffeeScript section to be completed.

EcmaScript (ES) section to be completed.

Ember section to be completed.

Express section to be completed.

Grunt section to be completed.

Gulp section to be completed.

io.js section to be completed.

jQuery section to be completed.

Knockout section to be completed.

Meteor section to be completed.

MooTools section to be completed.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side web applications built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. These applications are written in JavaScript and can be run within the Node.js runtime.

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O (input/output) model that makes it lightweight and efficient as well as optimized for real-time web applications’ throughput and scalability.

Its work is hosted and supported by the Node.js Foundation, a collaborative project at Linux Foundation.

npm section to be completed.

nvm section to be completed.

PhoneGap section to be completed.

React section to be completed.

RequireJS section to be completed.

TypeScript section to be completed.

Yeoman section to be completed.

V8 section to be completed.

Webpack section to be completed.