State of jQueryOctober 2008

John Resig - http://ejohn.org/

Growth✦ Huge growth in 2008✦ Doubled our size and reach

✦ Doubled the size of the conference!✦ Market saturation

✦ 21 of the top 22 links on Delicious popular relate to jQuery

Analytics

✦ Sept 2007 - Sept 2008✦ 5.9m unique visitors✦ 13.5m visits✦ 56.8m page views

Google Trends

jQuery

Prototype

DojoYahoo UI

http://google.com/trends?q=prototype+javascript%2C+jquery+javascript%2C+yui+javascript%2C+dojo+javascript&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Mootools

MarchDeveloper Survey

34%

8%8% 13%

18%

18%

jQuery Prototype Yahoo UI Dojo MootoolsOther

http://ajaxian.com/archives/nitobi-survey-results-on-ajax-development

MayDesigner Survey

19%

3%

11%

15%

52%

jQuery Mootools Prototype Yahoo UI Other

http://css-tricks.com/poll-results-what-javascript-library-do-you-use/

4-6 months later...

SeptemberDesigner Survey

5%3%10%

19%

63%

jQuery Mootools Prototype Dojo Other

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/javascript-in-modern-web-design/

SeptemberRuby Dev Survey

17%

2%

38%

43%

jQuery Prototype Mootools Other

http://survey.hamptoncatlin.com/

jQuery 1.2.x✦ Three Significant releases:

✦ 1.2.2✦ 1.2.3✦ 1.2.6

1.2.2✦ .bind()

✦ ready✦ mouseenter / mouseleave✦ mousewheel

✦ $(DOMElement) 300% faster✦ Event API for plugins

1.2.3✦ New methods:

✦ .data()✦ .removeData()

✦ Improvements to event namespcing

1.2.6✦ Performance

✦ Event handling 103% faster✦ CSS Selectors 13% faster✦ .offset() 21% faster✦ .css() 25% faster

✦ Dimensions plugin made part of core

jQuery 1.3✦ All about performance!

✦ New Selector Engine✦ 2-3x faster than the current one

✦ DOM Manipulation✦ 10x faster

✦ No more browser sniffing

Redesign

jQuery UI✦ UI 1.5

✦ Large overhaul of UI 1.0✦ Improved code quality✦ Faster✦ Many bug fixes

Backing✦ Liferay

✦ Supporting development of jQuery UI✦ Hired Paul and Eduardo to work onUI

full-time✦ Sponsored redesign of ui.jquery.com

✦ Mozilla Foundation✦ Received accessibility grant✦ Landing ARIA integration into UI

Nokia✦ Web runtime (WebKit) on their phones✦ Porting applications to run on it, using

jQuery✦ jQuery will be distributed on all new

Nokia phones✦ Will be contributing back

✦ Code✦ Testing

Microsoft✦ Making jQuery part of their dev platform✦ Distributed with Visual Studio✦ Building components on jQuery✦ Will be contributing back to the project

✦ Code✦ Documentation✦ Testing

Thanks to...

Github - food!

Core Dev Team✦ Brandon Aaron

✦ Helped with 1.2.2, 1.2.3, and 1.2.6✦ David Serduke

✦ Helped with 1.2.2 release✦ Ariel Fleisher

✦ Helped with 1.2.6✦ Joern Zaefferer

✦ qUnit Test Suite

Team✦ Rey - Evangelism, Message✦ Scott Jehl - Redesign, logo✦ Karl and Jonathan - Learning jQuery,

jQuery Reference Guide✦ Yehuda and Bear - jQuery in Action✦ Paul, Richard and the whole jQuery UI

team!

Here’s to 2009!