jQuery is a JavaScript library that has struck my fancy repeatedly over the past few years and which I find vastly more productive than the alternatives.
Resources:
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Layout | Feb 4’12 | turn.js | An amazing page-turning effect plugin |
| May 2’11 | UI Layout | A powerful layout manager plugin | |
| Apr 2’11 | Sausage | Visual progress indicator for infinite (or just very long) scrolling. | |
| Feb 7’11 | Isotope | Amazing layout helper | |
| Apr 26’10 | jQuery Masonry | Its predecessor. | |
| Social APIs | Jun’11 | jquery-lifestream | Fetches and renders a fully client-side lifestream widget |
| UI Elements | Oct’11 | jQuery AutoSuggest | very nice autocompletion plugin with CSS bubbles. |
| Jun’11 | Dynamic Carousel | with support for swipe events | |
| Jan’11 | CLEditor | A pretty decent WYSIWYG editor. | |
| Apr 18’10 | jsplumb | A Yahoo Pipes-like plugin | |
| AlphaNumeric | A plug-in for masked field input. | ||
| Dec 29’09 | Ajax AutoComplete for jQuery | Very practical. | |
| Jun 5’09 | Rounded corners | Another plugin | |
| Dec 8’08 | jwysiwyg | A simple WYSIWYG editor. | |
| Nov 20’08 | Liquid Canvas | Rounded corners plugin | |
| Oct 21’08 | Asynchronous Treeview | Simple and effective. | |
| Sep 17’08 | jQuery.ScrollTo | scrolling to arbitrary positions | |
| Sep 4’09 | jParallax | a brilliant way to display layered content | |
| labelify | a plugin to add labels to your textboxes | ||
| Jul 8’09 | jgrowl | Growl-like notifications | |
| Graphing | Jun 6’09 | Fun With Canvas: Create a jQuery Graph Plugin | Simple and effective. |
| Jan 15’09 | flot | A very complete interactive plotting library | |
| Sep 4’08 | jQuery Sparklines | very flexible Sparklines plugin | |
| Graphing | Jun 6’09 | Fun With Canvas: Create a jQuery Graph Plugin | Simple and effective. |
| Jan 15’09 | flot | A very complete interactive plotting library | |
| Sep 4’08 | jQuery Sparklines | very flexible Sparklines plugin | |
| References | Aug ‘10 | jQuery for Designers | A nicely designed, task-oriented site. |
| Sep 4’09 | Cheat Sheet for version 1.2 | Very, very good | |
| jQuery Crash Course | a good primer | ||
| Learning jQuery | |||
| Media | Jun’11 | slides | Yet another image slider |
| Sep 4’09 | jQuery Flash Plugin | get rid of FlashObject and UFO | |
| PNGFix | fixes PNG images in stupid browsers such as IE | ||
| Media plugin | seems to do it all, for all formats | ||
| Zoomimage | |||
| FancyBox | a lightbox-like plugin with a Mac-friendly look and on-demand image retrieval that I use on this site | ||
| Interface | |||
| JCarousel | |||
| Coda-Slider | a carousel-like sliding panel library | ||
| jqGalScroll | a simple and effective photo gallery scroller that I also use on this site | ||
| Galleria | a very nice image gallery component that uses fades to good effect | ||
| Tables | Sep 4’09 | Flexigrid | a pretty amazing grid control with JSON support |
| Tablesorter | simple client-side table sorting |