🆚 jQuery vs. Knockout

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.

Knockout is a JavaScript MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) library that helps developers create rich, desktop-like user interfaces with JavaScript and HTML.

It features declarative bindings between data and UI, observable properties with automatic dependency tracking, computed observables, a built-in templating system, and efficient incremental DOM updates.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 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.

• 🥉 Third most popular in Slovenia in the Frontend Frameworks category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Greece in the Frontend Frameworks category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Argentina in the Frontend Frameworks category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Chile in the Frontend Frameworks category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Bulgaria in the Frontend Frameworks category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• jQuery technology profile
• OpenJS Foundation company profile

• Knockout technology profile