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Draggable JS vs React vs jQuery

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Overview

React
React
Stacks182.6K
Followers147.0K
Votes4.1K
GitHub Stars240.3K
Forks49.7K
jQuery
jQuery
Stacks195.3K
Followers70.6K
Votes6.6K
GitHub Stars59.6K
Forks20.5K
Draggable JS
Draggable JS
Stacks53
Followers72
Votes0
GitHub Stars18.4K
Forks1.1K

Draggable JS vs React vs jQuery: What are the differences?

Introduction

In the world of web development, there are various tools and libraries available to enhance the user experience. Two popular tools for creating draggable elements on a webpage are Draggable JS and React with jQuery. While both provide similar functionality, there are specific differences that set them apart. In this article, we will explore the key differences between Draggable JS and React with jQuery in detail.

  1. Implementation: Draggable JS is a standalone JavaScript library that can be added to any webpage easily. It works by attaching event listeners to the desired elements, allowing users to drag and drop them as needed. On the other hand, React with jQuery is a combination of two popular libraries - React and jQuery. React is a JavaScript framework, and jQuery is a feature-rich JavaScript library. React components can be wrapped around jQuery functions to create draggable elements.

  2. Ease of Use and Flexibility: Draggable JS provides a simple and intuitive API, allowing developers to quickly implement drag and drop functionality. It offers various options to customize the behavior of draggable elements. React with jQuery, on the other hand, requires a deeper understanding of both React and jQuery to leverage their combined power. It provides more flexibility in terms of integrating other features and components available in these libraries.

  3. Performance: Draggable JS is lightweight and optimized for performance since it is a specialized library solely focused on drag and drop functionality. It has a smaller footprint, resulting in faster loading times and smooth dragging experience. React with jQuery, being a combination of two libraries, can introduce additional overhead and impact performance, especially when dealing with complex UI and large-scale applications.

  4. Component-based Architecture: React follows a component-based architecture, making it easier to manage state and UI updates. With React, draggable elements can be created as reusable components, encapsulating their logic and rendering. This approach simplifies the development process and promotes code reusability. Draggable JS, however, does not provide a component-based architecture out of the box and requires additional code to manage state and UI updates.

  5. Browser Compatibility: Draggable JS is designed to work across a wide range of browsers, even older versions. It takes care of the necessary fallbacks and polyfills, ensuring a consistent experience for users regardless of their browser choice. React with jQuery, although relying on React's virtual DOM, may have slightly reduced compatibility due to certain jQuery features that may not be fully supported in all browsers.

  6. Learning Curve: Draggable JS has a relatively shallow learning curve, making it accessible for developers of all levels. It provides clear documentation, code examples, and a supportive community to assist users. React with jQuery, however, requires a solid understanding of both React and jQuery, which may pose a steeper learning curve, especially for beginners.

In summary, Draggable JS is a lightweight and easy-to-use JavaScript library that specializes in drag and drop functionality, while React with jQuery is a combination of React and jQuery, offering more flexibility and integration possibilities but with potentially higher complexity.

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Advice on React, jQuery, Draggable JS

Cyrus
Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs adviceonVue.jsVue.jsReactReact

I find using Vue.js to be easier (more concise / less boilerplate) and more intuitive than writing React. However, there are a lot more readily available React components that I can just plug into my projects. I'm debating whether to use Vue.js or React for an upcoming project that I'm going to use to help teach a friend how to build an interactive frontend. Which would you recommend I use?

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Simon
Simon

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

DecidedonVuetifyVuetifyVue.jsVue.jsNuxt.jsNuxt.js

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

  • @{Nuxt.js}|tool:7304| consisting of @{Vue CLI}|tool:9559|, @{Vue Router}|tool:6932|, @{vuex}|tool:6705|, @{Webpack}|tool:1682| and @{Sass}|tool:1171| (Bundler for @{HTML5}|tool:2538|, @{CSS 3}|tool:6727|), @{Babel}|tool:2739| (Transpiler for @{JavaScript}|tool:1209|),
  • Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed @{Vue.js}|tool:3837| components
  • @{Vuetify}|tool:6163| as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
  • @{TypeScript}|tool:1612| as programming language
  • @{Apollo}|tool:5508| / @{GraphQL}|tool:3820| (incl. @{GraphiQL}|tool:7879|) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
  • @{ESLint}|tool:3337|, @{TSLint}|tool:5561| and @{Prettier}|tool:7035| for coding style and code analyzes
  • @{Jest}|tool:830| as testing framework
  • @{Google Fonts}|tool:2652| and @{Font Awesome}|tool:3244| for typography and icon toolkit
  • @{NativeScript-Vue}|tool:9623| for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

  • Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
  • Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
  • Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
  • Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
  • Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
  • Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.
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Cyrus
Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs advice

Simple datepickers are cumbersome. For such a simple data input, I feel like it takes far too much effort. Ideally, the native input[type="date"] would just work like it does on FF and Chrome, but Safari and Edge don't handle it properly. So I'm left either having a diverging experience based on the browser or I need to choose a library to implement a datepicker since users aren't good at inputing formatted strings.

For React alone there are tons of examples to use https://reactjsexample.com/tag/date/. And then of course there's the bootstrap datepicker (https://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), jQueryUI calendar picker, https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr, and many more.

How do you recommend going about handling date and time inputs? And then there's always moment.js, but I've observed some users getting stuck when presented with a blank text field. I'm curious to hear what's worked well for people...

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Detailed Comparison

React
React
jQuery
jQuery
Draggable JS
Draggable JS

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.

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

Draggable is a modular drag & drop library, allowing you to start small and build up with the features you need. At its most basic, Draggable gives you drag & drop functionality, fast DOM reordering, accessible markup, and a bundle of events to grab on to.

Declarative; Component-based; Learn once, write anywhere
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Works with native drag, mouse, touch and force touch events;Can extend dragging behaviour by hooking into draggables event life cycle;Can extend drag detection by adding sensors to draggable;The library is targeted ES6 first
Statistics
GitHub Stars
240.3K
GitHub Stars
59.6K
GitHub Stars
18.4K
GitHub Forks
49.7K
GitHub Forks
20.5K
GitHub Forks
1.1K
Stacks
182.6K
Stacks
195.3K
Stacks
53
Followers
147.0K
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Followers
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Votes
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Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 837
    Components
  • 674
    Virtual dom
  • 579
    Performance
  • 509
    Simplicity
  • 442
    Composable
Cons
  • 41
    Requires discipline to keep architecture organized
  • 30
    No predefined way to structure your app
  • 29
    Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages
  • 13
    JSX
  • 10
    Not enterprise friendly
Pros
  • 1263
    Cross-browser
  • 957
    Dom manipulation
  • 809
    Power
  • 660
    Open source
  • 610
    Plugins
Cons
  • 6
    Large size
  • 5
    Encourages DOM as primary data source
  • 5
    Sometimes inconsistent API
  • 2
    Live events is overly complex feature
No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations availableNo integrations available
ES6
ES6

What are some alternatives to React, jQuery, Draggable JS?

AngularJS

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

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

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.

Svelte

Svelte

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.

Flux

Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.

Famo.us

Famo.us

Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.

Riot

Riot

Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.

Marko

Marko

Marko is a really fast and lightweight HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to readable Node.js-compatible JavaScript modules, and it works on the server and in the browser. It supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.

Kendo UI

Kendo UI

Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset. AngularJS integration, Bootstrap support, mobile controls, offline data solution.

Preact

Preact

Preact is an attempt to recreate the core value proposition of React (or similar libraries like Mithril) using as little code as possible, with first-class support for ES2015. Currently the library is around 3kb (minified & gzipped).

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