Awesome jQuery

A curated list of awesome jQuery plugins, resources and other shiny things. Inspired by the awesome-* trend on GitHub.

jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.

Table of contents

• Resources
  • Tutorials
  • Books
    • Free Books
    • Paid Books
  • Blogs
  • Miscellaneous Resources
• Plugins
  • Animation
  • Editors
  • Forms
  • Images, Maps and Charts
  • Menus
  • Modals and Popups
  • Tables
  • Time and Date
  • Translations
  • Validation
  • Miscellaneous Plugins
• Mobile
• UI
• Testing
• Server-side Integrations
• Community
• Alternatives
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• Contributing and License

Resources

Awesome learning material to get to know jQuery and JavaScript or learn something more advanced. Some friendly advice: Before diving deep into jQuery learn JavaScript well.

• API documentation - Official jQuery documentation.
• Code School - Learn the basics of jQuery, a JavaScript library, to modify elements on a webpage and improve user interaction.
• Codecademy jQuery track - Beginners track for learning jQuery.
• Learning jQuery - Tips, techniques, and tutorials for the jQuery JavaScript library.
• Style guides - jQuery's code style guides when contributing to jQuery projects.
• Tuts+ - Useful and indepth articles about jQuery.
• jQuery guide for teams - Tips to write consistent jQuery code, easy to use and understand by your team.

Tutorials

Awesome free tutorials and courses to learn jQuery.

• jQuery patterns - A variety of jQuery plugin patterns for jump starting your plugin development.
• Learning jQuery Design Patterns - jQuery Plugin Design Patterns
• Learn jQuery - jQuery learning center.
• Snoopcode - jQuery tutorials.
• Extending jQuery - Extending jQuery’s selector capabilities.
• Free jQuery Courses at Classpert - List of Free jQuery Courses at Classpert Online Course Search

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Books

Recommended and not too much outdated jQuery books.

Free Books

• JavaScript plus a dash of JQuery - A Sensible Introduction to Coding with JavaScript and jQuery, by Nicholas Johnson.
• jQuery Succinctly, Syncfusion (PDF, mobi, epub) (Registration required).
• jQuery fundamentals - Comfortable working through common problems you'll be called upon to solve using jQuery.

Paid Books

• jQuery in Action, Third Edition - Fast-paced and complete guide to jQuery, by Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz, and Aurelio De Rosa.