Dojo Introduction

What is Dojo?

•  Dojo is JavaScript framework released as open source software. This JavaScript toolkit provides many components to develop rich internet applications.
• You can use Dojo toolkit to develop dynamic web applications . Dojo toolkit will put life in your web application and turn it into highly interactive application. You can turn your web application into desktop like web application.
• Dojo offers many widgets, utilities and ajax libraries to develop your application.
• Dojo is released under BSD or AFL license
• Dojo is free and can be used to develop free or commercial application.

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Features of Dojo

• Dojo is based on HTML and JavaScript , so its easy for the developers to learn it fast.
• There is no requirement of learning new programming language. Just HTML and JavaScript knowledge if sufficient.
• Dojo provides higher abstraction layer to the programmer .  So, it helps the programmers to develop powerful functions very easily.
• Dojo has already invented the wheels for the programmers and now programmers just have to use the Dojo api into their application

Here is the list of components that comes along with Dojo framework:

• DOJO Tree
• DOJO Button
• DOJO Calendar control
• DOJO Grid
• DOJO List box
• and many more..

 

Benefits of Dojo Framework

we will see the benefits of Dojo Framework. Dojo toolkit provides many widgets to develop the UI for web applications

. Dojo is one of the robust ajax framework that can be used to develop enterprise grade application.

Following are the benefits of Dojo.

• Associative arrays
• Loosely typed variables
• Regular expressions
• Objects and classes
• Highly evolved date, math, and string libraries
• W3C DOM support in the Dojo

Disadvantages of Dojo Following are the Disadvantages of Dojo.

• Developer depends on the browser support for the Dojo
• There is no way to hide the Dojo code in case of commercial application

Why Dojo?

Choosing a ajax framework for your next web application can be very difficult task for you. There may be many choices for the ajax framework. There are many frameworks already available in the market for developing ajax applications. Both commercial and free ajax software's provides many features. 

Read more on the Dojo Official web site here . In the next section we will learn how to install Dojo.