JQuery

Question

Hi,
Microsoft seems to push JQuery quite hard now as a JS library with neat integration in Visual Studio and a lot of good work involved with the JQuery community.
Will we see a ESRI JavaScript API version for JQuery at some point (since ESRI seems to usually follow MS) or will Dojo be the way forward?

What are the benefits using Dojo over JQuery?

Thanks,
Erik

deleted-user-Jie3eyjOl9XM · Answer

Any more comments on any problems with JQuery? I much prefer it to Dojo, but I'm glad that we have choices. Since we already use JQuery in our .Net development, I don't want to mix in yet another framework, let alone adding Ext JS.

Looking at this article,
 http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/help/jssamples/framework_jquery.html
there seems to be some Dojo/Jquery mixing involved, which seems a little inefficient, and makes me a little nervous.

AlessioDi_Lorenzo · Answer

I think that it was chosen mainly for gfx and dijits. However the choice must be contextualized when it was done now can open new scenarios.

I love jQuery and I work with it when using Google Maps extensions or other mapping libraries (OpenLayers),  but I think a real alternative to Dojo would be ExtJS more than jQuery.

Both ExtJS and Dojo include all components (layout, grid, trees, etc.) in one project, developed and mantained by the same people.
This is not true for jQuery: you can build great user iterface but you have to put together widget and plugins from different source, with different behaviour and not always compatible with each other.

This was, for example, one of the reasons at the base of the Mapfish preference for ExtJS.

nicogis · Answer

I think that it was chosen mainly for gfx and dijits. However the choice must be contextualized when it was done now can open new scenarios.