jQuery Emerges as Most Popular Javascript Library for Web Development
November 3rd, 2008
It seems to be official: jQuery is gaining ground faster than any other JavaScript Library. There may be many reasons but I like to think that jQuery is leading the pack due to its simplicity and relatively small size. Here is what Google Trends is showing us:
Top Reasons for jQuery’s ground gaining:
- Simplicity.
- Small in size: only 15K for latest production release after its minified and gzipped.
- Extendable: pretty big plugin library. Currently showing hundreds of plugins.
- CSS3 Compliant and one of the first JS Library to use CSS selectors.
- Handles AJAX very well while avoiding code bloating.
- Major adoption by ASP.NET developers and teaming up with ASP.NET’s team for improved integration
jQuery Resources:
- jQuery Official Site
- jQuery Plugins
- Chat with John Resig, Creator of jQuery
- jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008
- jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet
Other Javascript Libraries:
All these Javascript frameworks provide the basic idea of single developer resource for cross browser and cross platform JavaScript development. Additionally, all make AJAX a little bit easier:
If you know of any additional interesting jQuery Resources, drop me a line. Thanks!
.NET Framework, AJAX, Web Design, Web Development, Web-based User Interfaces