🆚 Babel vs. jQuery

Babel is a JavaScript compiler mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ (ES6) code into an older JavaScript (ES5) version to maximize browser compatibility.

jQuery is a fast, small, feature-rich JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, event handling, CSS animations, and Ajax.

It provides a cross-browser selector engine, formerly known as Sizzle, supports deferred and promise objects for asynchronous workflows, has built-in JSON parsing and utility functions, and allows extensibility through a large ecosystem of plugins.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⬆️ 63rd most popular in Singapore in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• ⬆️ 71st most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• ⬆️ 82nd most popular in Sweden in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• ⬆️ 85th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• ⬆️ 91st most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• 🥇 Most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Babel technology profile

• jQuery technology profile
• OpenJS Foundation company profile