What is Closure 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.
Closure Library is a tool in the Javascript UI Libraries category of a tech stack.
Closure Library is an open source tool with 4.8K GitHub stars and 1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Closure Library's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Closure Library?

Companies
3 companies reportedly use Closure Library in their tech stacks, including albelli, GravityDev, and CoScale.

Developers
24 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Closure Library.

Closure Library Integrations

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Closure Library's Features

  • cross-browser functions for DOM manipulations and events, Ajax and JSON
  • high-level objects such as User Interface widgets and Controls

Closure Library Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Closure Library?
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.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
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