Google also opened the source code of its own JavaScript compression tools. The library, called Closure, includes an extraordinarily diverse assortment of capabilities with functionality ranging ...

Google’s Closure compiler, for optimizing and transpling JavaScript, no longer needs Java to run. Instead, Java source code is compiled to JavaScript so it can run under Node.js or in a browser.

This central open source of all things javascript should prove very handy to web site owners and developers, as many of them are already being used by Google apps and widgets. “Today, each Closure ...