Editors
- CodeMirror - http://codemirror.net/
"Stable, long history, used by Google (playgrounds). Supports a lot of languages, supports search & replace. Released under a MIT-style license"
- Ace - http://ace.ajax.org
"Used in Cloud9 IDE, supports many languages. Mozilla's Bespin/ Skywriter was merged into Ace, developed by Mozilla, Ace.org. Released under the Mozilla tri-license (MPL/GPL/LGPL)"
Transport layers
- Socket.IO
"Provides layer over ajax/ Websockets/ flashsockets for simple client-server message transmission."
Javascript/ design
- jQuery - http://jquery.com/
- Twitter bootstrap - http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/