dojo
This is the foundation package for the Dojo 1 Toolkit. While still being maintained, new development is primarily focused on modern Dojo.
Checkout the Dojo framework website or if you want a more detailed technical status and overview, checkout the Dojo roadmap.
This package is sometimes
referred to as the “core”, it contains the most generally applicable sub-packages
and modules. The dojo package covers a wide range of functionality like Ajax, DOM
manipulation, class-type programming, events, promises, data stores,
drag-and-drop and internationalization libraries.
Installing
Installation instructions are available at
dojotoolkit.org/download.
Getting Started
If you are starting out with Dojo, the following resources are available to you:
What to Use Dojo For and When to Use It
The following is a brief sampling of some of the areas where Dojo may prove to
be the right tool for your next project:
For keeping your code fast and maintainable, Dojo offers an asynchronous
module definition (AMD) loader -- encapsulating pieces of code into useful
units, loading small JavaScript files only when they are needed, and loading
files separately even when they are dependent on one another.
When you want to easily extend existing classes, share functionality among a
number of classes, and maximize code reuse, Dojo provides class-like
inheritance and “mixins.”
For creating advanced and customizable user interfaces out of refined,
efficient, and modular pieces, Dojo’s Dijit framework offers several dozen
enterprise-ready widgets -- including buttons, textboxes, form widgets with
built-in validation, layout elements, and much more -- along with themes to
lend them a consistent look. All of this is available for mobile
environments as well.
For working with advanced vector graphics, Dojo’s GFX API can render
graphics in a wide variety of formats, with support for seamless
manipulation (skewing, rotating, resizing), gradients, responding to mouse
events, and more.
The dojox/charting library supports powerful data visualization and
dynamic charting, including a variety of 2D plots and animated charting
elements.
When you need feature-rich, lightweight, and mobile-friendly grids/tables,
Dojo offers the dgrid widget, along with customizable default themes and
accompanying features such as in-cell editing, row/cell selection, column
resizing/reordering, keyboard handling, pagination, and more.
Dojo is the officially supported framework for the ArcGIS API for
JavaScript, one of the most widely used enterprise-grade APIs for web
mapping and spatial analysis -- learning to use Dojo will open doors to
creating richer web mapping applications using that API.
License and Copyright
The Dojo Toolkit (including this package) is dual licensed under BSD 3-Clause
and AFL. For more information on the license please see the License
Information. The Dojo Toolkit is Copyright
(c) 2005-2018, JS Foundation. All rights reserved.