jQuery has a wonderful community of programmers that create incredible things and yes there many other frameworks available, but jQuery is clearly the most popular.
As it’s lightweight, and because it is extensible, there are jQuery plugins freely available for almost every functionality you can think of, however, it may become difficult to sift through everything that been released and find the gems that are absolute must-haves.
That why, in this roundup, you will find a collection of 15 New & Amazing jQuery Plugins that can make your sites a joy to use. so enjoy.
1. FullCalendar
A JavaScript event calendar, which is customisable and open source. Display a full-size drag-n-drop event calendar, leveraging jQuery.
2. SmartCart
jQuery Smart Cart is the smart interactive jQuery Shopping Cart plugin with PayPal payment support. It can create an interactive and user friendly shopping cart with minimal code.
3. Stick Me
jQuery StickMe Plugin gives the control to make any element on a website fixed on a certain scroll position of the document page wherever and whenever it needs. It’s easy to setup with the given options and it’s also a great module to interact with due to its methods and callback events.
4. Timeline.js
jQuery timeline plugin, easily creates a timeline.
5. Per Word Action
A jQuery plugin utility which idempotently wraps every word within an element in a unique span and assigns each word a line-number data attribute. Takes a per-word callback function as an argument.
6. Meme Generator
The Meme Generator is a jQuery plugin allowing easily creating images with captions (memes). It doesn’t require any special markup, you can use it on any <img> and the plugin will handle the rest. It uses HTML5 Canvas to create images.
7. Pull Quote Center
A jQuery plugin utility which dynamically inserts a symmetrical pull-quote element clone to enable a hacky float: center between two columns of text
8. jQuery SVG Progress
This is a unique jQuery plugin that allows you to display infographics on your web pages. It’s main feature is a large variety of shapes to be precise about six. Dimensions of each figure are formed based on the size of the block to which jQuery-svg-progress was applied, which gives great flexibility in use. Accordingly, the size of the contour of figures perfectly adapts when loaded on mobile devices.
9. Restive.js
Restive.js is a designer-friendly jQuery toolkit for responsive Web design. Using a combination of smart device detection, advanced breakpoints management, and timely CSS class additions, restive.js will make it easier for you to build mobile-friendly and/or responsive Web pages.
10. Typewrite JS
A simple yet powerful native javascript plugin for a cool typewriter effect.
11. jQuery MemoryRoll Plugin
This is a little jQuery plugin which when first called generates a random number in the given range, saves it in the localStorage with the name given and returns the value generated. Every subsequent call the plugin reads the saved number and returns the next one in the range.
After doing this, the plugin saves the new value. If the number in the localStorage is the upper range limit it loops around and returns the first number in the range.
12. Wobble Window Plugin
Wobble Window is a fancy jQuery plugin that helps you create a cool, interactive, configurable, HTML5 canvas based gooey effect when the mouse moves in/out a specified element.
13. Simple Lightbox
Touch-friendly image lightbox for mobile and desktop with jQuery
14. jQuery Confirm
A jQuery plugin that provides great set of features like, Auto-close, Ajax-loading, Themes, Animations and more.
15. jQuery JumboSlider Plugin
JumboSlider is a light and responsive jQuery plugin that provides a simple way to transform any kind of content on any web page into a compact and beautiful slideshow. It’s easy to setup with the given options and it’s also a great module to interact with due to its methods and callback events.