title: Frameworks for optimizing performance with Javascript
body: <p>This is kind of an unusual situation so forgive me for the odd title. I've been looking at optimizing an HTML interface for manipulating server data. All data is passed over a REST service and there are existing jQuery methods for pulling and submitting the data.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is that all this runs very slowly due to the large amount of Javascript code used for animating and manipulating the screen. Obviously I can optimize the javascript code to some extent, but the interface is so slow I'm wondering if there are other frameworks I should look at taking advantage of. I don't have the ability to leverage anything server side like PHP.</p>
  
  <p>If there are no other frameworks, I'm planning to move most of the code to jQuery to improve readability and take advantage of the optimizations others have done there.</p>