JavaScriptMVC (JMVC) is a JavaScript open source model-view-controller (MVC) framework build, on top of the jQuery library.

It is the backend agnostic client-side framework that can be used with any backend solution, such as Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Django, and so on.

The idea behind JavaScriptMVC is to provide a set of tools to build high quality and maintainable applications in the shortest amount of time possible.

JavaScriptMVC contains the following independent components:

The first version was published in May 2008. Current Version 3.2 was released in December 2010. The latest version at the time of writing this book is 3.2.2.

In the next Version 3.3 of JavaScriptMVC, which should be released soon, jQueryMX project will be replaced by CanJS. Projects using current version of JMVC should work after small refactoring with JMVC 3.3 thanks to the names fallback.

JavaScriptMVC 4.0 will be renamed to DoneJS and contain significant changes to StealJS which will be fully AMD compatible work with CommonJS and run with Node.js. FuncUnit will be split into 3 parts: Syn - Synthetic event library, ShouldJS - Asynchronous test driving using Jasmine or QUnit and DidJS - Automated test runner bindings for Jasmine or QUnit for Selenium, PhantomJS, and so on.