🆚 jQuery vs. Lit

Type

JavaScript library
Website component

About

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.

Lit is an open-source JavaScript library for building fast and lightweight web components, developed as the successor to Google's Polymer project.

The library uses native Web Components APIs with reactive properties and HTML template literals, reduces boilerplate compared to Polymer, updates only changed parts of the DOM for faster rendering, and supports server-side rendering, TypeScript, and integration with frameworks such as React, Vue, and Angular.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

JavaScript Libraries › Rank #1
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #224
Components › Rank #15

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The jQuery JavaScript library is 2,448 times more popular than Lit.
Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

jQuery is more popular than Lit in all countries.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Russia
Netherlands
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

jQuery is more popular than Lit in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
General News
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
p**nhub.com
#26
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Name
Rank
#5,363
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See also

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