Dojo Tutorial with examples



In Javascript you often need to use a set of tasks used again and again. To prevent you from reinventing the wheel, Dojo was developed aimed at easing the web development. With Dojo, you can manipulate the elements of your web page dynamically.

This Dojo tutorial is intended for beginners who wish to extend their knowledge of javascript to make them more efficient.

Pre requisite


We expect that you have a working knowledge of javascript. If not, you may like to learn javascript with our popular javascript tutorial . It will create a basic understanding of the javascript and you can then learn Prototype.

jQuery - the Dojo alternative


jQuery is another parallel and equivalent of the Dojo. If you have not started any javascript library we suggest that you take a close look at jQuery which is evolving faster than Dojo. The jQuery tutorial can be found here .

Throughout this tutorial we will develop numerous examples that you can try and practice. The best way to learn is to make changes in the source code and see its effects. Fortunately we have tools to make changes in the source code online and see its effects.

Let us now move quickly to our first Dojo code - in the next page