JavaScript was considered a script-bunny toy once, but it has now become a reliable scripting language for web apps, and open source organizations. The tools developed for making JavaScript development easy beyond JavaScript technologies such as jQuery as well as the increasing set of JavaScript libraries to give plenty of functionality to the developers. Have a look at some of the most promising tools and frameworks that are tuned for JavaScript.

ActiveState Komodo IDE 7

This one supports JavaScript development as well as some other popular Web development languages such as Ruby, PHP, Python. This version backs Node.js server-side JavaScript environment, and also offers capabilities like syntax-checking, debugging, editing and code intelligence. It also has got a feature that supports CoffeeScript, which compiles to JavaScript. Enhanced syntax checking in this version allows developers to check CSS and JavaScript within HTML.

Appcelerator's Aptana Studio 3

It’s an open source web development IDE which supports JavaScript, CSS Code Assist and HTML to aid in authoring. It offers integrated JavaScript debugging and also Ruby on Rails apps. It has many other features like support for HTML5 and the ability to customize the IDE. You can install the studio as Eclipse IDE plug-in.

4D Wakanda

It’s a JavaScript development platform that helps build web and mobile business applications. Wakanda server has a datastore for housing app data as well as models, and this is run by the WakandaDB NoSQL object engine.

dotCloud JS

This kit is built for web apps fast with JavaScript and HTML. Apps that are built with dotCloud JS can be deployed on dotCloud PaaS cloud. Web developers achieve access to a specific cloud APIs without writing back-end code or without deal with server. Developers can now access almost 14 cloud services via dotCloud JS.

Telerik Kendo UI

It is a framework for developing HTML5 as well as JavaScript mobile apps and sites. It includes adaptive rendering and also leverages CSS3, JavaScript and HTML5 to modify a mobile application’s native look devices like tablets or smartphones while supporting the major browsers. Kendo has features such as templates, themes, templates, and Model View View Model framework.

Eclipse JSDT

This tool is a set of plug-ins for Eclipse targeted at supporting JavaScript app and web development. It adds a JavaScript project type to the the Eclipse Workbench with editors, wizards, views and builders. This tool set has JSDT Core which includes a parser and compiler DOM; JSDT UI with UI code to build the JavaScript IDE; and JSDT debug, for debugging JavaScript using Crossfire and Rhino. It also has feature like JSDT Web that supports client-side JavaScript implemented in the Eclipse Web Tools Platform's Source Editing project.

NetBeans IDE

This tool supports error-checking for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JavaScript 1.7. This editor identify JavaScript and HTML in JSP, PHP, and XHTML files. It provides browser compatibility when developers specify browser versions in JavaScript Options panel. It  also provides code completion and integrated documentation for JQuery and Script.aculo.us via the NetBeans JavaScript editor.

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