MochiKit is a light-weight

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library written and maintained by Bob Ippolito. Inspired by the

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networking framework, Twisted, it uses the concept of deferred execution to allow asynchronous behaviour. This has made it useful in the development of interactive web pages which maintain a dialog with the web server, sometimes called

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applications. Of particular note is its ability to load and manipulate

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-encoded data sets, and MochiKit.DOM, a set of functions to easily create dynamic page components. MochiKit forms the foundation of the client-side functionality of the

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Python web-application stack. Perhaps as a result of the author's involvement in the Python community, MochiKit exhibits many idioms familiar to Python programmers, and is commonly used in Python-based web applications.

External links

MochiKit homepage
JavaScript libraries Software using the Academic Free License Software using the MIT license {{soft-eng-stub

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