Overview

UserFrosting uses jQuery and Bootstrap to provide a rich, intuitive, and modern user interface.

It also uses the following components by default (of course, you can replace any of these as you see fit in your own Sprinkles):

• Handlebars.js - client-side templating engine
• FontAwesome - Wildly popular icon library
• Ionicons - More icons
• Tablesorter - Flexible client-side table sorting
• jQuery Validation Plugin - client-side validation
• select2 - Dropdowns that support search, autocomplete, and more
• Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in JavaScript
• URI.js - URL parsing library
• SpeakingURL - URL slug generation
• iCheck - Attractive checkboxes
• clipboard.js - A modern approach to copy text to clipboard
• jquery-slimscroll - required by AdminLTE theme
• fastclick - required by AdminLTE theme

This chapter fills in some of the gaps in communication between the client and server-side code bases, and explains how UserFrosting uses Handlebars.js and custom jQuery plugins to build dynamic, fully interactive features in your client's browser.