Does anyone know if there's a site that tracks the popularity of the big/various JavaScript libraries?
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Here's an unscientific but nonetheless interesting comparison. It's interesting because it showed Dojo peaked and jQuery is really ascendant, suggesting jQuery has eaten Dojo's market share.
cletus
2009-03-07 02:39:19
Yeah, I've been using Google Trends as my unscientific gauge as well.
2009-03-07 02:44:19
bigmattyh
2009-03-07 04:06:07
I thought about it but prototype, being an otherwise normal English word, gets too many false positives.
cletus
2009-03-07 04:28:22
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I think now that jQuery is shipping with Visual Studio you're going to see a huge jump in it's popularity.
Spencer Ruport
2009-03-07 02:49:33
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Click on the "tags" link at the top of the page.
- JQuery: 1970
- Prototype: 135
- Dojo: 71
- Mootools: 39
Those numbers line up with my intuition on the subject; JQuery is dominating.
Chase Seibert
2009-03-07 03:58:25
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The idea of using Google Trends comes from a comment by none other than John Resig on Simon Willinson's blog post on this topic back in 2007. I tend to agree with him: Google Trends for the leading libraries is a good heuristic. John's original search omitted Ext (and the acronym "yui" for Yahoo UI); my version is merely an update.
David Alan
2009-12-30 00:49:00