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My favorite is probably explode ($( "#toggle" ).toggle( "explode" );) but there are tons of others, and you need it for drag-n-drop, and it has all kinds of other stuff that comes along too like accordions and resize-ability, date-pickers, it gives you everything you'd need for a JavaScript UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I could probably go for something without the graphical influence, like, for example, drag-n-drop is essential in an application, the button themes you get aren't necessarily essential, so I could probably go for something even lighter than JQuery UI for some projects. It's already a lightweight addition, but yeah, the graphical components seem less essential than the functionality additions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Overall Review Sentiment for JQuery UI
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Jquery UI is a popular and influential library for enhancing web user interfaces. There are lots of advantages of Jquery UI:
Cross Platform
Easy to use
Customizable widgets
Large Community
Accessibility
Effects
Themes
Easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are a few disadvantages as well:
Limited Customization:
Learning curve
Dependency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Jquery UI is straightforward to use. At that time, it was very used for the user interface because its saved time and performance. Jquery UI provides many functions that are very useful. And we efficiently used it by using Jquery CDN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Jquery UI is disliked because some functions are working on a version, not on all versions. So it is too hard to identify. And to use it, you have a deep knowledge of Jquery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
easy to use, well documented and fairly light weight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
no regular updates/releases, new stuff and enhancement in the existing library should be more regular Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
JQuery is easy to use. With basic knowledge of javascript, any user can use JQuery for additional front-end features for web UI. Some of JQuery's features help simplify AJAX call by making page performance faster and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It contains some issues when written without proper observation or deeper understanding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We can use it in two ways one is with placing the local files and second is that we can use it via link which is very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is difficult to identify bug in it which is very time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
jQuery is a great library, especially for people that are starting their adventure with JS. Its main pros are: ease of use, great documentation, loads of functionality and a huge community. You will find out that complex problems can be solved with just a few lines of code and thanks to the great documentation - finding the right code will be a piece of cake, but even if you haven't found it in the documentation there's a huge community that will help you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If you're not careful, you'll start to use jQuery everywhere. For simple tasks attaching a (quite huge) jQuery library is worthless. Remember that all the jQuery things a pure JS also can do and for one simple animation it's not worth implementing the whole jQuery library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Jquery UI made it easy to add commonly used user interface elements into a web page like dialogs, tabs while also providing effects like fading. All this was done while writing very few lines of code than you would have needed using plain javascript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
With the rise of front end javascript frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and many more, that provided more functionality like client side routing, state management, jquery UI quickly became irrelevant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
On the jQuery UI site, you can create a custom build for your own purposes depending on what components and features you actually need. So if you just need a modal pop up window, you can include just that feature and not have the bloat of the rest of the package. While there are front-end frameworks that are slowly introducing some of the components that are found in jQuery, the majority of them are not. For a website or app that needs to include a modern user interface, jQuery UI is a useful tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Many components and features jQuery UI provides is being included in the latest front-end frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap, etc.) using native browser functionality. This can make jQuery UI seem seem bulky or outdated by doing things the 'old' way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
