Rizqi Ahmad, a high-school student in Germany, created a pretty useful data binding service for jQuery called Chain.js. It allows you to easily manipulate data driven content from javascript by directly manipulating the DOM, without resorting to templates or a lot of complicated code. You create the markup the way you want the data to display, give class names to DOM elements that should have their content substituted, and pass an associative array containing the variable data to the chain() method.
There is also support for managing lists of elements, allowing you to add and remove elements dynamically inside the defined markup. Rizqi also created the Interaction library that works on top of the data binding library to provide drag, drop, and sort support for lists.
Make sure to check out his demos. They show off some of the flexibility of the library and they’re easy to tweak for your own needs.
Data Binding Solution for jQuery
Chain.js – Data Binding Service for jQuery
Interaction.js – drag/drop/sort support for Chain.js
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