Below you find 10 jquery plugins and jquery extensions you cannot do without if you are a serious front-end developer
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Easy DOM Creation with jQuery
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Form plugin
If you are doing AJAX-stuff, you must have this plugin.
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Dimensions
This plugin should be a part of the jQuery Core.
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Interface
This library solves 90% of your user interface issues. Excellent work Stefan!
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Thickbox 3
Note I have written version 3, I hope this version will be more extendable than the second version.
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Tablesorter
Solves a generic problem on medium-sized datasets, I want to see an ajax-extension on this fetching data on the fly when paging the resultset.
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jQuery Form Validation
Need I say more, this is the mother of all User Interaction Design Patterns, and it is important that someone has taken this beast on.
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jQuery Cookie
Nothing fancy, but a really good plugin. Instead of writing it yourself again, again, again ….
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JSON
JSON is what XML should be, jQuery should support it better in the core.
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Simple Star Rating Plugin
Nice implemented Eye-candy.
Choosing the correct plugins to gain functionality from is an important detail in your front end architecture and should be taken seriously in order to create a future-proof and well built front end architecture.
Front-End Book is run and primarily written by Mattias Hising, an experienced Lead Developer from Uppsala, Sweden. I try to focus my efforts on Front-End related issues, as I find the problems to solve are more complex and interesting than the ones in traditional back-end development.
If you do web development using AJAX, you should know JQuery. These is a list of 10 “must-have” plug-ins. 10 Must-Have JQuery Plug-Ins and Extensions