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Vanilla.JS vs jQuery UI: What are the differences?

## Introduction
In this comparison, we will explore the key differences between Vanilla.JS and jQuery UI.

1. **Syntax**: Vanilla.JS uses plain JavaScript syntax while jQuery UI is a library built on top of jQuery, providing its own syntax and methods. 
2. **DOM Manipulation**: Vanilla.JS allows direct manipulation of the DOM through JavaScript while jQuery UI simplifies DOM manipulation with its built-in methods like `.append()`, `.remove()`, etc.
3. **File Size**: Vanilla.JS is a lightweight library as it consists of pure JavaScript code leading to smaller file sizes, whereas jQuery UI is a larger library due to the additional functionalities it offers.
4. **Browser Compatibility**: Vanilla.JS ensures better browser compatibility as it solely relies on standard JavaScript features, whereas jQuery UI might have more consistent behavior across different browsers due to its abstraction layer.
5. **Learning Curve**: Vanilla.JS is the fundamental JavaScript language, making it essential for developers to have a strong understanding of JavaScript concepts, while jQuery UI provides a higher level of abstraction making it easier to learn and use for beginners.
6. **Performance**: Vanilla.JS may have better performance since it directly interacts with the browser's native functionality, whereas jQuery UI may introduce some overhead due to its library functions.

In Summary, the key differences between Vanilla.JS and jQuery UI lie in syntax, DOM manipulation, file size, browser compatibility, learning curve, and performance.
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Pros of jQuery UI
Pros of Vanilla.JS
  • 215
    Ui components
  • 156
    Cross-browser
  • 121
    Easy
  • 100
    It's jquery
  • 81
    Open source
  • 57
    Widgets
  • 48
    Plugins
  • 46
    Popular
  • 39
    Datepicker
  • 23
    Great community
  • 7
    DOM Manipulation
  • 6
    Themes
  • 0
    Some good ui components
  • 2
    Web-components
  • 2
    Lightweight
  • 1
    NO CONVENTIONS
  • 1
    No buildtool overhead
  • 1
    Faster than any framework
  • 1
    Unopinionated
  • 1
    Easy to learn

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Cons of jQuery UI
Cons of Vanilla.JS
  • 1
    Does not contain charts or graphs
  • 2
    You need to build anything yourself

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What is 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.

What is Vanilla.JS?

It is a fast and cross-platform framework for building incredible, powerful JavaScript applications. it is the most lightweight framework available anywhere.

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What are some alternatives to jQuery UI and Vanilla.JS?
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
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.
jQuery Mobile
jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive web sites and apps that are accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.
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.
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