The OpenJS Foundation is an organization that was founded in 2019 from a merger of JS Foundation and

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Foundation. OpenJS Promotes the

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and web ecosystem by hosting projects and funds activities that benefit the ecosystem. The OpenJS Foundation is made up of 38 open source JavaScript projects including Appium,

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, jQuery,

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and

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. Founding members included

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, IBM, PayPal,

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, and

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History

jQuery Foundation

jQuery Foundation was founded in 2012 as

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non-profit organization to support the development of the jQuery and jQuery UI projects. jQuery is the most widely adopted JavaScript library according to web analysis as of 2012. Prior to the jQuery Foundation, the jQuery project was a member of the

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since 2009. The jQuery Foundation also advocates on behalf of web developers to improve web standards through its memberships in the

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, and Ecma TC39 (JavaScript). It created a standards collaboration team in 2011 and joined the W3C in 2013. In 2016, the Dojo Foundation merged with jQuery Foundation and subsequently rebranded itself as JS Foundation and became a

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project. JS Foundation (legally ''JSFoundation, Inc'') aimed to help development and adoption of important

technology. The foundation worked to facilitate collaboration within the JavaScript development community to "foster JavaScript applications and server-side projects by providing best practices and policies."

Node.js Foundation

The Node.js Foundation was created in 2015 as a

project to accelerate the development of the

platform. The Node.js Foundation operated under an open-governance model to heighten participation amongst vendors, developers, and the general Node.js community. Its structure gives enterprise users the assurance of "innovation and continuity without risk." Its growth led to new initiatives such as the ''Node Security Platform'', a tool allowing continuous security monitoring for Node.js apps. And ''Node Interactive'', "a series of ''professional'' conferences aimed at today's average Node.js user." Node.js reports "3.5 million users and an annual growth rate of 100 percent" and the Node.js Foundation is reported as being among The Linux Foundation's fastest growing projects.

OpenJS Foundation

In 2019, the Node.js Foundation merged with the JS Foundation to form the new OpenJS Foundation with a stated mission to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem as a whole.

Projects

* The Dojo Foundation (prior to 2016) was most notably home to the

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. It was also host to Lodash, RequireJS, and other projects created by the Dojo community. * The jQuery Foundation (2012-2016), was host to the original jQuery projects such as jQuery, jQuery UI, Sizzle and QUnit. In 2015 the

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project joined and

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was launched. In 2016, the ESLint project joined. * The JS Foundation (2016-2019) attracted additional projects. In 2016, Appium joined, and

was contributed by IBM in 2016.

References

External links

* {{JavaScript Free software project foundations in the United States Linux Foundation projects Organizations established in 2019 Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco JavaScript