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 |
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Media | Apr’14 | Velocity | A high performance replacement for $.animate() |
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 | ||
Frameworks | May’14 | Hoodie | An interesting approach at offline first. |
Oct’13 | Riot.js | An opinionated take on MVP. | |
Graphing | Aug 4’12 | Peity | A little sparkline and pie chart plugin. |
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 | |
UI Elements | May’14 | Handsontable | An editable spreadsheet-like grid/table. |
Aug’12 | jBar | A simple, neat call-to-action bar | |
Gridster | A variable sized grid control with touch support | ||
FullCalendar | A pretty complete drag&drop calendar implementation. | ||
Jun’12 | Handsontable | A pretty comprehensive spreadsheet-like control. | |
Apr’12 | pep | A plugin for kinetic drag and drop on mobile and desktop. | |
Ninja UI | A tiny themable UI toolkit. | ||
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 | |
Layout | Feb 5’12 | 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 |
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 |