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:

• Tutorials

• Reference Guide

• API Documentation

• Community Forum

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.