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The legacy JavaScript page discusses the earlier approaches; the main feature of Tapestry 5.4 is a total rewrite of all things client-side, with the following goals:

• Break the hard linkage of Tapestry to Prototype and Scriptaculous, by introducing an abstraction layer
• Remove the clumsy Tapestry and T5 "namespaces"
• Reduce the amount of page-specific JavaScript initialization
• Make it easier to override behavior associated with client elements
• Support CoffeeScript and (potentially) other languages that target JavaScript
• Organize client-side JavaScript using modules
• Make pages load faster
• Integrate Bootstrap
• Make it easier for rich client libraries such as Backbone or AngularJS to operate within a page
• Properly document Tapestry's client support

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