Minified

Quick Links: minifiedjs.com - API - Docs Latest version: 1.0 (changelog)

Overview

Minified.js is a client-side JavaScript library that's both powerful and small. It offers jQuery-like features (DOM manipulation, animation, events, HTTP requests) and utility functions (collections, date&number formatting, date arithmetic, templates) with a single, consistent API.

Feature Comparison

The goal of Minified is to provide all the basics that you may need on an HTML page.

Feature	Minified	Minified Web	jQuery	MooTools	Zepto.js
CSS Selector	yes CSS1 or browser engine	yes CSS1 or browser engine	yes CSS3 subset + extensions	yes CSS3 subset + extensions	yes browser engine
CSS Style Changes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
CSS Class Changes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Element Creation	yes	yes	yes HTML-strings only	yes	yes HTML-strings only
Element Cloning	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
DOM Manipulation	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Animation (numeric)	yes	yes	yes	yes	no extra module, CSS only
Animation (color)	yes	yes	no	yes	no extra module, CSS only
Events	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
DOMReady	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Ajax/XHR	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Promises/A+-compatible	yes	yes	yes	no	no
JSON	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Cookies	yes	yes	no	yes	no
Form Serialization	yes	yes	yes	no	yes
Collection Helpers	yes	no	yes	yes	yes
AMD support	yes	yes	yes	no	no
Templates	yes	no	no	no	no
Number Formatting	yes	no	no	no	no
Date Formatting	yes	no	no	no	no
Date Arithmetic	yes	no	no	no	no
Online Builder	yes modules and functions	yes modules and functions	no	yes modules	no
Internet Explorer 6-8 compatible	yes IE-support optional	yes IE-support optional	yes jQuery 1.x only	yes	no

What you can expect from Minified Web

• General purpose functions to effectively write HTML-based web applications
• A very small footprint. The complete distribution will always be smaller than 8kB, and the Web module under 4kb.
• A clean and simple, easy to use API.

Building

To build Minified, you need to install Node.js and Grunt. Then enter the Minified directory and install the dependencies:

npm install

To build the whole project including the site, use

grunt all

If you only want to compile the code, use

grunt code

Licensing

Minified is Public Domain. Use, modify and distribute it any way you like. No attribution required. To the extent possible under law, Tim Jansen has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Minified, as published in the /src and /dist directories of this repository. See http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ for details.

Please note that some third-party content of the Minified web site, especially in the /srcContent directory, has been published under different open source licenses.

Thank you for checking out Minified. Tim Jansen