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Full disclaimer ahead of time: one of the creators of Crosscheck is my good friend Charles Lowell. Aside from being friends, we do a weekly podcast together.

That out of the way, The Front Side has been rev'ing community infrastructure and now has a new developer site along with a IRC channel for support.

Crosscheck is a browserless JavaScript unit testing framework, open sourced under the LGPL license. What this means is that you can test JavaScript without a browser. What's even more valuable is that Crosscheck "hosts" simulates browser-centric JavaScript (things like document and alert) and they've painstakingly created IE and FireFox simulators, including bugs and proprietary APIs, in those hosts.

Thus, you can test your JavaScript and AJAX without using a browser. Meaning you could setup up continuos builds with JavaScript unit tests and, even more handy, speed up the process of writing test-first (or even test-last) JavaScript coding.

The Front Side also provides Freestyle, a framework for AJAX enabled web applications that covers not only the front-end, but also the server side.

Tags: ajax, thefrontside, javascript, unittesting, testing, crosscheck