About
Learn about CanJS’s mission, technical highlights, who uses CanJS, and our future roadmap.
CanJS is an evolving and improving set of client-side JavaScript architectural libraries that balances innovation and stability. It targets experienced developers building complex applications with long futures ahead of them.
CanJS is part of the DoneJS family of open source projects. The DoneJS Team and Bitovi are responsible for CanJS. They steer its direction, add features, fix bugs, and help you become successful. Feel free to say hello anytime on Gitter chat or the forums.
CanJS’s goals are briefly summarized in its mission statement:
To minimize the cost of building and maintaining JavaScript applications by balancing innovation and stability, helping developers transcend a changing technology landscape.
Why CanJS?
Read more about our mission and how we’ve been accomplishing those goals for 10 years.
If CanJS’s heart isn’t enough to convince you it’s a good fit, read up on its Technical Highlights.
CanJS is used by some of the largest companies in the world. Find out who on Who Uses CanJS?
Learn about CanJS’s future plans, how we make them, and how you can influence them on the Roadmap page.