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CL-js

Below are the javascript files that form cl-js library.

Individually

CL-core.js : forms the first part of the CL.js library. Core focuses on the low level plumbing of retrieving and pipelining data for processing.

CL-ui.js : provides functions for generating ui elements as well as a simple handlebars-like template substitution scheme for describing HTML elements. E.g. a template string of “<input value=”{{catname}}“> which is given an object like {”catname”: “fred”} would be rendered <input value=“fred”>. The substituion happens at function envocation.

CL-feeds.js : provides the low level content retrieval functions needed to integration content from https://feeds.library.caltech.edu. If you are reading the source to understand how to integrate content from feeds.library.caltech.edu in other languages (e.g. Go, Python, PHP, R or Julia) this is the place to look.

CL-feeds-ui.js : forms third part of CL.js. It is UI focused. It wraps DOM manipulations to provide support for configurable views of the data retrieved by CL-feeds.js. It’s main purpose is to support building other widgets as well as making the code generated by the widgets easy to understand when embedding in your own pages.

All together

CL.js : is a concatenation of CL-core.js, CL-ui.js, CL-feeds.js, and CL-feeds-ui.js into a single file for faster download.

Widgets

Widgets are JavaScript libraries for generating HTML, CSS and JavaScript for integrating system specific Caltech Library content (e.g. feeds.library.caltech.edu).

CL-BuilderWidget.js : is our first widget built to generate HTML and JavaScript to make it easier to embed or re-use our content in your webpage. It makes extensive use of CL.js. The generated code is for making the library content embeddable in your own webpage.