Although it looks small, simple and not always serious, RightJS actually has a pretty solid idea behind and if you would like to have it described in one sentence that would be “causal but well organized”
RightJS does not have any intention to enlight you with some radically new approach in JavaScript development, but rather does something quite opposite.
The main target of RightJS is to create a simple, fast and reliable tool for a true agile development. It simplifies many routine operations making JavaScript development an easy and natural thing. It looks simple, it works simple, but that is the kind of simplicity that lets you concentrate on serious things.
Whatever your previous experience is jQuery, Prototype, Mootools, Ruby, Python or even PHP. When you look through RightJS API, you immediately spot familiar things. RightJS keeps it close to the standards and it was specifically designed the way it was familiar for people with different backgrounds.
And it’s not just designed to be familiar, it is designed to make JavaScript development the most natural thing specifically for the server-side developers who work with dynamic languages like Ruby or Python. We have extensive object-oriented programming features, flexible dynamic language attitude, native unit extensions, etc, etc.
You might notice that there is not so much of the documentation for RightJS. One of the reasons is that we simplified and systematically organized all the things the way there is almost nothing to learn. Because we don’t want you to learn, we want you to have fun.
There are just a few key features in RightJS you need to know to start working with it. Well, you even don’t need to know them either, because when you see things like that
$(element).update('with text').highlight();
$(element).onClick('addClass', 'clicked');
$$('li').each('onClick', 'toggleClass', 'marked');
You don’t need to be a genius or read any documentation to figure out what’s going on. Those things snap immediately even for people who are just starting their way to JavaScript development.
RightJS might look like a simple and cute thing, but it is very hackable too. We’ve put lots of thoughts, tries, tests and years of experience in the internal structures development in order to bring in the JavaScript development the joy of dynamic languages programming.
We specifically choose object-oriented structures and functionality injection approach, providing a clean and reliably working skeleton, which can be easily bended, patched and overridden when your task requires any sort of customization.
If you can hack it on the server-side, you don’t need to change your habits and can have the same exact fun with RightJS on the front-side.