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Computes are amazing, especially when consumed by low-level widgets. They are so amazing, I want to see them become an interoperable standard the same way that deferreds have become.

This week's widget shows how to make "instantaneous" web apps with queued AJAX requests using can.Model and the can/model/queue plugin. The plugin puts an end to spinners, progress-bars, and "loading" text. This article covers how to make apps more responsive with queued requests and recover from service errors.

This week's widget is a real-time chat application that demonstrates sending and receiving messages using Socket.IO and can.Model. This article shows how to integrate Socket.IO to can.Model's events system.

This week's widget demonstrates the awesome power of jQuery++'s range helper. Text ranges are notoriously a pain in the butt, with major differences in API and implementation across browsers. Similar to jQuery with DOM elements, $.Range provides a simpler API and cross browser methods to create, move, and compare text ranges. If you need to create a custom text editor, text highlighter, or other functionality that understands text, $.Range can be a huge help. For example:

This weekly widget was suggested by @Cherif_b. The article covers how to create a basic paginated grid. But even more important, it gives a glipse at how we organize large applications.

I, @justinbmeyer, am going to post a weekly widget made with CanJS. I hope to continue this for as long as I have widgets to write. If you want to see something, please tweet it to @canjs. These posts are going to be quick and dirty. Eventually, I will put these up on CanJS's recipe page with a full description.

Hello, my name is jQuery++. It's wonderful to meet you. Have you ever found yourself wishing jQuery had just one more feature or wanted it to be a tiny bit faster? I know I have, but I understand jQuery can't do everything. This is why the team at Bitovi created me, a collection of extremely useful DOM helpers and special events that complement jQuery.

This article is the second of a two part series (part1) on CanJS's hashchange routing system - can.route. This part walks through through can.route's advanced functionality. Specifically, it covers: