![Durandal](http://durandaljs.com/media/DURANDAL-FINAL-HI-RES-LOGO-HOR-WEB.png)

Durandal is a cross-device, cross-platform client framework written in JavaScript and designed to make Single Page Applications (SPAs) easy to create and maintain. We've used it to build apps for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android...and now it's your turn...

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/BlueSpire/Durandal.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/BlueSpire/Durandal)

## Features

* Clean MV* Architecture
* JS & HTML Modularity
* Simple App Lifecycle
* Eventing, Modals, Message Boxes, etc.
* Navigation & Screen State Management
* Consistent Async Programming w/ Promises
* App Bundling and Optimization
* Use any Backend Technology
* Built on top of [jQuery](http://jquery.com/), [Knockout](http://knockoutjs.com/) & [RequireJS](http://requirejs.org/).
* Integrates with popular CSS libraries such as [Bootstrap](http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) and [Foundation](http://foundation.zurb.com/).
* Make your own templatable and data-bindable widgets.
* Fully Testable

## Documentation

All the documentation is located on [the official site](http://durandaljs.com/), so have a look there for help on how to [get started](http://durandaljs.com/get-started.html), [read tutorials](http://durandaljs.com/docs.html), [view sample descriptions](http://durandaljs.com/documentation/Understanding-the-Samples.html) and peruse the module reference docs.

## Community & Support

Need help with something that the docs aren't providing an answer to? 
Visit our [google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/durandaljs) and join in the conversation.

## Contributing

We'd love for you to contribute to the Durandal project! If you are interested, please have a read through our [contributing](/CONTRIBUTING.md) guide.

## License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012 Blue Spire Consulting, Inc.

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