🆚 jQuery vs. Lit
- 📈 jQuery is much more popular than Lit.
- 🌍 jQuery is more popular in all countries.
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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.
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Pricing
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Taiwan in the Components category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the United States in the Components category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Germany in the Components category.
- ⬆️ 61st most popular in Taiwan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 209th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,655,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.




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