The OpenJS Foundation was founded in 2019 from a merger of JS Foundation and Node.js Foundation. Its stated mission is to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem by providing a neutral organization to hostprojects and collaboratively fund activities that benefit the ecosystem as a whole. The OpenJS Foundation is made up of 29 open source JavaScript projects including Appium, Dojo, jQuery, and Node.js, and webpack. Founding members included Google, Microsoft, IBM, PayPal, GoDaddy, and Joyent.
History
jQuery Foundation
jQuery Foundation was founded in 2012 as 501 non-profit organization to support the development of the jQuery and jQuery UI projects. jQuery is the most widely adopted JavaScript library according to web analysis as of 2012. Prior to the jQuery Foundation, the jQuery project was a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy since 2009. The jQuery Foundation also advocates on behalf of web developers to improve web standards through its memberships in the W3C, and Ecma TC39. It created a standards collaboration team in 2011 and joined the W3C in 2013. In 2016, the Dojo Foundationmerged with jQuery Foundation and subsequentlyrebranded itself as JS Foundation and became a Linux Foundation project. JS Foundation aimed to help development and adoption of important JavaScript technology. The foundation worked to facilitate collaboration within the JavaScript development community to "foster JavaScript applications and server-side projects by providing best practices and policies."
Node.js Foundation
The Node.js Foundation was created in 2015 as a Linux Foundation project to accelerate the development of the Node.js platform. The Node.js Foundation operated under an open-governance model to heighten participation amongst vendors, developers, and the general Node.js community. Its structure gives enterprise users the assurance of "innovation and continuity without risk." Its growth led to new initiatives such as the Node Security Platform, a tool allowing continuous security monitoring for Node.js apps. And Node Interactive, "a series of professionalconferences aimed at today's average Node.js user." Node.js reports "3.5 million users and an annual growth rate of 100 percent" and the Node.js Foundation is reported as being ammong The Linux Foundation's fastest growing projects.
OpenJS Foundation
In 2019, the Node.js Foundation merged with the JS Foundation to form the new OpenJS Foundation. with a stated mission to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem as a whole.
Notable projects
The Dojo Foundation was most notably home to the Dojo Toolkit. It was also host to Lodash, RequireJS, and other projects created by the Dojo community.
The jQuery Foundation, was host to the original jQuery projects such as jQuery, jQuery UI, Sizzle and QUnit. In 2015 the Grunt project joined and Globalize was launched. In 2016, the ESLint project joined.
The JS Foundation attracted additional projects. In 2016, Appium joined, and Node-RED was contributed by IBM in 2016.
