This section gives you a short list of some of the most popular and most used jQuery plugins that you can use in your projects to perform common tasks. This isn’t a comprehensive list by any means, but it’s a good start.
The first plugin we suggest is typeahead.js. It’s a fast and full-featured autocomplete plugin developed by Twitter. This means that you can pass it a set of data and it will allow you to have an <input> that shows suggestions to the users while they’re typing.
The second jQuery extension worth mentioning is isotope. It allows you to filter and sort UI elements using nice animations with different types of placement. Some examples are row, column, and the famous masonry.
Another very interesting plugin is pickadate.js. It’s a mobile-friendly, responsive, and lightweight jQuery date and time input picker. It adds a widget to an <input> so that once a user focuses on the element, a date or time picker is shown to facilitate the selection.
The fourth plugin in this list is Chosen. It’s a library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more user-friendly and nicer looking.
Velocity is a jQuery plugin that reimplements jQuery’s animate() method to improve its performance and include new features.
The last two plugins we suggest are jCarousel and Magnific Popup. jCarousel is defined as a plugin to create a carousel that works with other objects in addition to images. Magnific Popup is a light and responsive light-box script with a focus on performance.
These plugins have become popular because they solve a real-world problem in a smart and efficient way or because they tackled the problem before any other plugin. Regardless of the reason, we’re sure that you want your plugins to be as successful as the ones presented here. To achieve this goal, you need to learn how to develop a good plugin. That’s exactly the aim of the next section.
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