string.js is a JavaScript library that adds extra string methods.

String manipulation is a daunting task, especially if you don’t know where to start, and string.js is just about the perfect library for everyday string manipulation tasks.

As everyone — I really mean everyone — who is a JS developer, needs to do some string magic at some time, and sometimes it’s hard to get through the logic and syntax through it.

String.js features several welcome methods for string manipulation:

• Capitalize;
• Collapse Whitespaces;
• Add dashes;
• Determine if a string has some term in it;
• etc.

Pep is a plugin for adding kinetic dragging to elements on HTML5-ready devices and desktops.

jQuery’s and CSS3′s animate functions are used behind the scenes (i.e., in the code) to great effect.

Pep comes with support for custom events, and allows constraining the “draggable” object to the borders of a set container.

Juice UI is a collection of WebForms that brings jQuery’s UI widgets to ASP.NET.

Juice allows creating flexible and interactive web apps with no fuss, by introducing additional functionality through jQuery’s widgets.

This seems like a ‘port’ that should have been rather anticipated, so its less-than-one-would-expect 59 watchers on GitHub can spark some thought at least.

jqFloat.js is a plugin for making elements ‘float’ in your web pages.

There are but a few options, all pertaining to the float area. The two available methods are used for stopping and starting the float animation.

jqFloat is admittedly a rather simple plugin, but it works amazingly well and can make for a welcome change in, for example, a loading screen for a game, or perhaps a 404 page like GitHub’s (they use parallax, though).

Meteor is a set of tools for building web applications that abide to contemporary standards.

Meteor is quite a revolutionary full stack framework that blurs the lines between the server and the client.

It runs on Node and has some bullet point-worthy features:

• The DOM updates immediately (true real-time apps);
• Synchronous databases;
• “Hot Code Push” — update apps while users are using them;
• Latency compensation;
• Smart packages for a slick footprint;

I could be mistaken, but features like authentication should definitely be handled by either other libraries or server-side. Just note that security question shouldn’t be taken lightly with Meteor.

Meteor is truly an interesting framework, though: it’s definitely something that’s easy to use for smaller apps, and time will tell if it fits the production environment as well.

EDIT: the devs have apparently addressed the database question: security features are to be added ‘soon’, but the devs, I think, will be facing myriad problems with row-level and column permissions within the database.

Rhinoslider is a flexible jQuery slider — but if you believe the developers, it’s “the most flexible jQuery slider”.

Rhinoslider does seem to leave many choices to the user, and, although the fact is not good only by itself, it’s a welcome change for larger projects where customization is not only necessary but inevitable.

Rhinoslider is also well-build in terms of usability and transition effects, and also provides thorough event handling.

The developers have realized that code-based customization can scare away some potential users, and have created a superb generator that writes the code for you.