One of the most exciting aspects of working with any programming language is discovering new libraries and frameworks which can be utilized to extend and simplify the code that drives your applications. With the rise in popularity surrounding HTML5 development on many different platforms and devices, the amount of code that has been made publicly available to aid anyone with their HTML5 development has grown at an outstanding rate. In this chapter, we will overview some of the most popular libraries and frameworks, which you can utilize at any time to not only save you time, but also allow you to focus more on your user experience rather than writing complex JavaScript to work within every modern browser.
In this chapter, we will cover the following things:
How frameworks and libraries can make your life easier
Things we can create with a framework or library
An overview of the ever-popular jQuery library and jQuery mobile framework
Building HTML pages...