Overview

jQuery UI

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Followers13.3K

Votes899

GitHub Stars11.3K

Forks5.3K

Vue.js

Stacks55.2K

Followers44.7K

Votes1.6K

GitHub Stars209.7K

Forks33.8K

Vue.js vs jQuery UI: What are the differences?

# Introduction
In this Markdown document, we will discuss the key differences between Vue.js and jQuery UI.

1. **Data Binding**: Vue.js uses two-way data binding, meaning any changes in the UI are reflected in the data model and vice versa. On the other hand, jQuery UI does not provide built-in two-way data binding capabilities, requiring developers to manually synchronize the UI and data model.

2. **Component-Based Architecture**: Vue.js is a component-based framework, allowing developers to create reusable components with their own logic and UI templates. jQuery UI, on the other hand, is primarily focused on providing a set of UI widgets and utilities, lacking a structured component-based architecture.

3. **Virtual DOM**: Vue.js uses a Virtual DOM to efficiently update the actual DOM by only rendering the components that have changed. In contrast, jQuery UI directly manipulates the DOM, potentially leading to performance bottlenecks when dealing with complex UI interactions.

4. **Reactivity System**: Vue.js provides a reactive system that automatically updates the UI when the underlying data changes, simplifying the process of managing the application's state. jQuery UI lacks a built-in reactivity system, requiring developers to implement their own logic for updating the UI based on data changes.

5. **Size and Performance**: Vue.js is a lightweight framework with a smaller footprint compared to jQuery UI, which includes a larger set of features and utilities. This can impact the performance of an application, with Vue.js generally being more optimized for modern web applications with complex UI requirements.

6. **Community and Ecosystem**: Vue.js has a rapidly growing community and ecosystem with a wide range of plugins, tools, and resources available for developers. jQuery UI, while still popular, has seen a decline in popularity in recent years and may have a more limited set of community-driven resources and support available.

In Summary, Vue.js and jQuery UI differ in their approach to data binding, component architecture, DOM manipulation, reactivity, size/performance, and community/ecosystem support.

Advice on jQuery UI, Vue.js

Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs adviceon

Vue.js

React

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

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

Decidedon

Vuetify

Vue.js

Nuxt.js

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

Nuxt.js consisting of Vue CLI, Vue Router, vuex, Webpack and Sass (Bundler for HTML5, CSS 3), Babel (Transpiler for JavaScript),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed Vue.js components
Vuetify as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
TypeScript as programming language
Apollo / GraphQL (incl. GraphiQL) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
ESLint, TSLint and Prettier for coding style and code analyzes
Jest as testing framework
Google Fonts and Font Awesome for typography and icon toolkit
NativeScript-Vue 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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Kamaleshwar

Software Engineer at Dibiz Pte. Ltd.

Jul 8, 2020

Decided

It was easier to find people who've worked on React than Vue. Angular did not have this problem, but seemed way too bloated compared to React. Angular also brings in restrictions working within their MVC framework. React on the other hand only handles the view/rendering part and rest of the control is left to the developers. React has a very active community, support and has lots of ready-to-use plugins/libraries available.

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Detailed Comparison

jQuery UI	Vue.js
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.	It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
-	Reactivity; Components; Modularity; Animations; Routing; Stability; Extendable Data bindings; Plain JS object models; Build UI by composing components; Mix & matching small libraries
Statistics
GitHub Stars 11.3K	GitHub Stars 209.7K
GitHub Forks 5.3K	GitHub Forks 33.8K
Stacks 40.7K	Stacks 55.2K
Followers 13.3K	Followers 44.7K
Votes 899	Votes 1.6K
Pros & Cons
Pros 215 Ui components 156 Cross-browser 121 Easy 100 It's jquery 81 Open source Cons 1 Does not contain charts or graphs	Pros 294 Simple and easy to start with 230 Good documentation 196 Components 131 Simple the best 100 Simplified AngularJS Cons 9 Less Common Place 5 YXMLvsHTML Markup 3 Don't support fragments 3 Only support programatically multiple root nodes

What are some alternatives to jQuery UI, Vue.js?

jQuery

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

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.

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.

Ember.js

A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.

Backbone.js

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

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.

Angular

It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

Aurelia

Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.

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 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.