The foundation of every great open source project is its community. The MooTools Team creates the base framework code but it’s all of you that take the framework and build outstanding plugins. These are just some of the new developments floating around the MooTools community.
Jacob Thornton's NetTuts article, 12 Steps to MooTools Master, is a high-level introduction to the MooTools JavaScript framework. The informative article touches on such MooTools topics as Mutators, Prototypal Inheritance, custom events, binding, and more. This tutorial probably isn't for the complete beginner, but is a good place to start for people still relatively new to MooTools and those considering it for the first time.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/12-steps-to-mootools-mastery/
Meio.Autocomplete is the latest plugin from MooTools Contributor Fábio M. Costa. Fábio's class is packed full of options and events, making it one of the most flexible MooTools Autocomplete plugin available. Great work Fábio!
DynamicTextarea is a MooTools class that resizes TEXTAREA elements as the user types. DynamicTextarea boasts numerous options and events for maximum control over chosen TEXTAREAs.
Array.Math is an outstanding set of Math methods you can add to JavaScript's native Array object. Need to find the sum of numbers in an array? Need to normalize elements in an array? Need to get the vector length of an array of numbers? Be sure to download Array.Math! Kudos to Arian Stolwijk for his excellent work!
LazyLoader is a unique MooTools plugin created by David Chan which allows you to defer loading of MooTools classes until they are needed. This is especially helpful when building large web applications. LazyLoader is very easy to use and implement.
Locate is a Geolocation plugin authored by Christopher Beloch. Christopher's plugin taps into the power of HTML5 and offers a few useful options and events to control the Locate instance.
These are just a few of the great MooTools plugins floating around the MooTools community recently. Keep up the good work and we look forward to featuring your plugins in future posts!
The foundation of every great open source project is its community. The MooTools Team creates the base framework code but it’s all of you that take the framework and build outstanding plugins. Here are some great plugins and tutorials that have been released recently.
Rails 3 has been recently been released with the new capability to create your own javascript helpers; no longer will you need to use PrototypeJS. Kevin Valdek has created a MooTools helper so that you can use your favorite javascript framework with your chosen Ruby application. Kevin mentioned that his release isn't complete at this point so feel free to contribute! Great work Kevin!
http://kevinvaldek.com/mootools-driver-for-rails-3-helpers
MooTools now has its own Reddit topic. Be sure to share your favorite MooTools posts with all of your friends via Reddit!
http://www.reddit.com/r/mootools/
Moodoco is a purely web-based client-side MooTools documentation generator with HTML5 offline capabilities created by Lim Chee Aun. It uses the GitHub API to fetch all the Markdown documentation files from the repository and stores them offline in localStorage.
http://github.com/cheeaun/moodoco
MultiSelect is a MooTools plugin from Blaž Maležič that turns your checkbox set into one single multi-select dropdown menu. This highly inventive plugin is a great way to make your select boxes much more appealing.
Mif.Tree is a flexible tree-generation plugin that loads trees of information from javascript objects. You could, for example, output a JSON representation of a directory and view your server via HTML/javascript trees.
Ryan Florence's blog has been doing an outstanding job of explaining complex MooTools concepts. Be sure to check out his blog!
These are just a few of the great MooTools plugins floating around the MooTools community recently. Keep up the good work and we look forward to featuring your plugins in future posts!