What is Select2?
It gives you a customizable select box with support for searching, tagging, remote data sets, infinite scrolling, and many other highly used options. It comes with support for RTL environments, searching with diacritics and over 40 languages built-in.
Select2 is a tool in the Javascript UI Libraries category of a tech stack.
Select2 is an open source tool with 25.9K GitHub stars and 6.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Select2's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Select2?
Companies
2834 companies reportedly use Select2 in their tech stacks, including Somfilms.net, ROBLOX, and Strava.
Developers
109 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Select2.
Select2 Integrations
JavaScript, CSS 3, AngularJS, Django, and Bootstrap are some of the popular tools that integrate with Select2. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Select2.
Select2's Features
- comes with support for RTL environments, searching with diacritics and over 40 languages built-in
- Using AJAX you can efficiently search large lists of items
- Fully skinnable, CSS built with Sass and an optional theme for Bootstrap 3
Select2 Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Select2?
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
jQuery UI
Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.
