Mixing jQuery and YUI together in an app, is it easily possible?

Question

I have to preface this with the fact that I love jQuery as a JavaScript language extension and YUI as a rich set of free controls. So here is my question, is there going to be any problems down the line if I mix jQuery and YUI together in an MVC app I am working on.

I want to use jQuery for the heavy lifting on the DOM and I want to use YUI for the rich user control set. This is an internal application and will never see the light of day outside of the organization I work for.

If anybody has experience with mixing these two frameworks I would love to hear what your experience has been.

Answer 1

Speaking from some experience in developing a small tool myself, I've used YUI's rich control set with Prototype for DOM manipulation in the past and experienced no issues. Admittedly, this was a small tool that didn't use a wide array of the controls.

Even so, I'm always hesitant to use multiple frameworks on my web projects; however, if you're only using jQuery's DOM functionality and YUI's control functionality, then I think you're fine - there's not really a conflict of interest there. Plus, with jQuery's noConflict() mode and YUI's namespacing, the two frameworks really shouldn't trump one another.

Answer 2

I think it shouldn't be a problem because YUI is all contained in "namespaces", so it shouldn't break anything (I don't know if jquery break things around YUI, but as long as it doesn't extend basic object there shouldn't be any problem). I remember Dustin Diaz come out with a library similar to jquery and builded around YUI: http://www.dustindiaz.com/introducing-ded-chain/ I tried to download it now, but the site is now offline.

Answer 3

I regularly use jQuery with YUI (jQuery for most things, YUI for the UI elements) with no trouble.

Note that YUI 3 will introduce jQuery style selectors and chaining:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/

Answer 4

This is an old question, but wanted to add a link to jQuery's doc on this topic...

http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries