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Closure Library vs winjs: What are the differences?
Closure Library: Google's common JavaScript library. Closure Library is a powerful, low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. It is used by many Google web applications, such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Docs, Google+, Google Maps, and others; winjs: A UI toolkit for modern browsers, by Microsoft. WinJS is a set of JavaScript toolkits that allow developers to build applications using HTML/JS/CSS technology forged with the following principles in mind: 1. Provide developers with a distinctive set of UI controls with high polish and performance with fundamental support for touch, mouse, keyboard and accessibility 2. Provide developers with a cohesive set of components and utilities to build the scaffolding and infrastructure of their applications'.
Closure Library and winjs can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Closure Library and winjs are both open source tools. winjs with 4.07K GitHub stars and 504 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Closure Library with 3.23K GitHub stars and 842 GitHub forks.
Pros of Closure Library
Pros of winjs
- Developed by Microsoft1
- Aa0
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Cons of Closure Library
Cons of winjs
- Small community1



















