Some of my favorite front-end JavaScript libraries for ASP.NET work

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During training classes about web development and ASP.NET, discussion pretty often goes to the JavaScript libraries one should use to help in development work.

Although there's a great number of libraries available for JavaScript (and TypeScript, which I'm most of the time working with), several useful libraries tend to repeat from project to project.

Here's my current list of useful JavaScript libraries, all of these can be found from NuGet, too:

  • jQuery: a very useful DOM library
  • Modernizr: for browser/HTML5 feature detection
  • Knockout: a clean and simple data binding library, especially with the table plugin. (AngularJS is great too, but I never liked the syntax.)
  • DataTables: a useful table interactivity plugin
  • MomentJS: a recent addition to my selection of libraries, very useful for managing dates and times.

As for the responsive HTML/CSS framework, my current choice is Bootstrap.

Happy web development!