🆚 jQuery vs. Waypoints

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.

Waypoints is an open-source JavaScript library that executes functions when users scroll to specific elements on a web page.

It provides a simple API for executing functions when elements reach specified scroll positions, includes extensions for infinite scrolling and sticky elements, and is available as standalone, jQuery, and Zepto builds.

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.

• ⭐ 4th most popular in Oman in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Cote D'Ivoire in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Myanmar in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Zambia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in Thailand in the JavaScript Libraries category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• jQuery technology profile
• OpenJS Foundation company profile

• Waypoints technology profile