My Favorite JavaScript Libraries and jQuery plugins

These are a few of my favorite and go to JavaScript libraries. These tend to work well in SharePoint with no problem. This is my personal list that I use

Grid

• http://unsemantic.com/ (SIMPLE)

Console Log

• https://github.com/patik/console.log-wrapper

Glyphs

• All – http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
• Weather – http://erikflowers.github.io/weather-icons/
• O365 – http://www.n8d.at/blog/office-365-icon-font-documentation/

Carousel

• Owl Carousel – http://owlgraphic.com/owlcarousel/index.html#demo
• slick – http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/
• jCycle2 – http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/
• backFlip – https://github.com/backflip/jquery-carousel (doesn’t use .clone() – good for use in ajaxPanel or where you don’t want cloned elements)

Cookies

• jquery.cookie https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie

Click Outside

• http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-outside-events/examples/clickoutside/

Mutate / Resize

• http://www.jqui.net/demo/mutate/ (had issue with zip, use github files)
• http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-resize/examples/resize/
• Smart Resize – http://www.paulirish.com/2009/throttled-smartresize-jquery-event-handler/

Select Box (supports Multi)

• Sumo Select https://github.com/HemantNegi/jquery.sumoselect

Time / Date

• Moment – http://momentjs.com/
• Datejs – http://www.datejs.com/

Truncating Text

• jQuery dotdotdot… http://dotdotdot.frebsite.nl/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter [THIS DIDN’T WORK WITH br’s]
• Truncate – https://github.com/pathable/truncate

Layouts (masonry type)

• Isotope – http://isotope.metafizzy.co/
  • ** use imagesLoaded for images – https://github.com/desandro/imagesloaded

Notify / Alerts

• Notify.js – http://notifyjs.com/
• Flavr – http://codecanyon.net/item/flavr-flat-jquery-popup-dialog/7021021

Modal

• Zurb Reveal – http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/reveal.html – [Needs adjustment for s4-workspace, but otherwise good]

Scroll Bars

• jScrollPane – http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/

SharePoint Specific

• SPServices – https://spservices.codeplex.com/