topic JQuery in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

JQuery

ErikNyberg — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:20:30 GMT

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

Re: JQuery

JoelMartinez — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:43:38 GMT

I second the motion for jQuery to be the driving force behind the JavaScript API. The Dojo library itself is quite large... while the jQuery library is much more supported and concise. Syntactically jQuery is much cleaner. I will say I like the Dojo dependency management (e.g., dojo.require('esri.map');), this is not a built in feature of jQuery yet. Although, I was just at the jQuery conference last weekend and they said it's something they plan on integrating in the future.

Re: JQuery

nicogis — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:28:03 GMT

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.

Re: JQuery

AlessioDi_Lorenzo — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:31:03 GMT

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.

Re: JQuery

deleted-user-Jie3eyjOl9XM — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:20:45 GMT

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.