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I just got word that Google have released their in house JavaScript library to developers, some of the tools used to create Gmail and Google Docs.

This is fantastic news and another reason to heart Google.

Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Like developers everywhere, Googlers want great web apps to be easier to create, so we’ve built many tools to help us develop these (and many other) apps. We’re happy to announce the open sourcing of these tools, and proud to make them available to the web development community.

Below are the three main tools they have open sourced.

Closure Compiler

The complier is a tool that optimizes JavaScript code to make it more lean, less buggy and basically to make it run faster.

Closure Library

Now, The Closure library looks the most interesting and is something I can’t wait to get my teeth into. The library has an array of features from widgets to DOM manipulation. Their demos look great and this is going to make alot of web developer happy.

Closure Templates

Closure Templates simplify the task of dynamically generating HTML. They have a simple syntax that is natural for programmers. In contrast to traditional templating systems, in which you use one big template per page, you can think of Closure Templates as small components that you compose to form your user interface.

Absolute fair play to Google for giving back… yet again to the community. And now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to try these out.