Plone Mockup is an ongoing effort to modernize Plone's javascript story. Check out examples and documentation at http://plone.github.io/mockup/

The Goals of Mockup

Standardize configuration of patterns implemented in js to use HTML data attributes, so they can be developed and without running a backend server.
Use modern AMD approach to declaring dependencies on other js libs.
Full unit testing of js

Install & Run Tests

Install Node version 0.10 or greater

Install using package manager, e.g. apt or yum

Install without using package manager

Install PhantomJS

Download and install PhantomJS

Maybe use your package manager:

$ apt-get install phantomjs

Now git clone & build Mockup:

$ git clone https://github.com/plone/mockup.git
$ cd mockup
$ make bootstrap

Run tests with PhantomJS:

$ make test

Run tests with Chrome:

$ make test-chrome