What is Blockly?
It is a client-side library for the programming language JavaScript for creating block-based visual programming languages and editors. It is a project of Google and is free and open-source software.
Blockly is a tool in the Javascript Utilities & Libraries category of a tech stack.
Blockly is an open source tool with 12.5K GitHub stars and 3.7K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Blockly's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Blockly?
Companies
Developers
73 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Blockly.
Blockly Integrations
JavaScript, GitHub, Node.js, Java, and CronApp are some of the popular tools that integrate with Blockly. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Blockly.
Pros of Blockly
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Decisions about Blockly
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Blockly in their tech stack.
Asmitha Raj
I want to build a web application that can use Blockly. Which framework should I choose to do that? One among these? or any other suggestions?
Blockly's Features
- Pure JavaScript library
- 100% client side. No server side dependencies
- Compatible with all major browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and IE
- Highly customizable and extensible.
Blockly Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Blockly?
Swift
Writing code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and apps run lightning-fast. Swift is ready for your next iOS and OS X project — or for addition into your current app — because Swift code works side-by-side with Objective-C.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
