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jOrder – JavaScript data manipulation redefined

Contents

1. Getting started
2. Benchmarks
3. Reference
4. FAQ
5. History
6. Plans

Features

• Fast, index based search, sorting and aggregation
• In-place data modification while preserving data integrity
• Keeping client and server data in sync with diff reloads

Why?

With the advent of NoSQL and cloud hosting web apps seem to return to the paradigm where database is used as storage and business logic is implemented in the application layer. The native objects of JavaScript however don’t offer the necessary performance and integrity, a gap jOrder now aims to fill.

What for?

Most JavaScript grid controls (jQuery based or otherwise) focus on the displaying part, and not so much on the actual data handling. Client side search and sorting yield poor performance, or, when absent, dump the burden of all that on the server.

So when you populate a grid control (any grid control) create a jOrder.table object, set up the indexes and simply hook it up to the control to pull the data from there.

Early versions

Be aware that early versions (pre 1.1) may introduce changes that are not backward compatible. Always check the change History before pulling a new version.