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The hottest JS framework, according to Google Trends
- arturadib 17y agoGoogle Trends will only show 5 trends. Prototype got left out, but still won't beat jQuery (it gets a huge peak in mid-2009 due to the release of a video game with the same title).
- adamc 17y agoI like jQuery and use it a lot, but I don't think popularity is a good measure of quality.
- enefekt 17y agoSimple, there are more web pages on the web than web apps.
- axod 17y agoI think the reason is likely that people started releasing 'plugins'. eg "jquery plugin to add 2 numbers!!!!" I don't think that really tells you much about quality though.
- edd 17y agoThat is the inherit 'problem' with javascript/jQuery having such a low barrier to entry. Anyone can copy and past a couple of lines of javascript and before you know it they are a 'freelance jQuery expert'. Don't get me wrong its amazing the power jQuery has for something that is so 'simple'
- arnorhs 17y agoit's missing prototype, but has scriptaculous, it's UI-part... I the search term and got a different picture
- FooBarWidget 17y ago"Prototype" surpasses everything else but that's because Google finds everything not related to the JS framework as well.
- gcb 17y agoI ever only had to go for jquery for the plotting libraries. other then that, YUI is much more professional to use. most web searchs for jquery keywords you got a zillion blogs with 'plugins' on how to do stupid little things. yui has a nice documentation and is consistent even when you account community created widgets. yui can be a little too OO centered, i recognize. and on the end. diversity is always awesome!
- postfuturist 17y agoWhat makes YUI more professional? I've used both quite a bit and I've found the YUI documentation to be frustrating to navigate and overly complex. YUI reminds me of the standard Java libraries in all the wrong ways. jquery has fantastically straight-forward, simple documentation.
- gcb 17y agoI agree. jquery is more straight-forward for the Funcional crowd. which is not everyone. it's almost everyone that do javascript. but even I like to use OO for frontend as it's something i usually write-once-read-four-months-later. and I need that OO constrains to live well with that. About the documentation. it's a reference guide. it's like reading a well formated source code. and the search feature there is top notch. I like it. That's the main advantage to me. jquery tries to patronize me sometimes.
- bentruyman 17y agoIs it just me or does it bother anyone else when libraries are referred to as frameworks? http://hluujavablog.blogspot.com/2005/01/framework-vs-library.html http://hluujavablog.blogspot.com/2005/01/framework-vs-librar...
- FreeRadical 17y agoI wonder why YUI is so popular is Indonesia.
- nathanwdavis 17y agoI lived in Indonesia a few years. I believe YUI is a common name in Indonesia, but not sure of that.
- shaddi 17y agoThis is interesting. I did my first web project of any meaningful scale in early 2008. When it came time to look for a JS framework, the people I spoke with and searches on the net seemed to recommend Dojo. But it was confusing, because I heard just as much about these other frameworks as well. A bit later, when I started doing some more front-end work, I found jQuery, and I dropped Dojo entirely because I found I was much more effective with it (a little bit / [lim -> 0] is...). Since then, my anecdotal experience has been that jQuery is the first-choice JS framework among the circle I regularly interact with. All this is to say: I feel like my preferences toward JS frameworks as a relatively new developer are quite similar to this chart.
- btipling 17y agojquery is fun to use.