PollenJS: Javascript Web Workers Library
As a follow up to my previous post regarding Javascript Web Workers, I'm pleased to announce the release of PollenJS, the first worker-specific javascript library:
PollenJS on github
PollenJS offers the following:
Utility Methods
fn
trim
each
to_array
in_array
clone
last
unique
merge
filter
map
keys
values
isArr
isFn
isStr
isNum
isUndef
isNull
extend
JSON Methods
stringify
parse
decode
encode
AJAX Methods
getJSON
get
post
Most of these might look familiar. A lot of the naming conventions were adopted from popular libraries to...
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