<rant>Yet another grid implementation that requires jQuery.</rant> My last searc...

seer · on Sept 4, 2015

Yeah I was thinking about removing the jQuery dependancy, as I don't "really" need it here - all of the heavy logic is implemented outside of jQuery and I used it mostly for easy event delegation and data attribute handling. I might work on a version without it, but I wanted to get this working as soon as possible and jQuery does help in code size reduction and ease of development. Also this grid works without any javascript (pure css) so you only need javascript for drag'n'drop reordering

lukeholder · on Sept 4, 2015

Would love to see a version without jQuery! Thanks for the great work.

matthewmacleod · on Sept 4, 2015

That would be a cool new "feature"

Why? jQuery is a popular, useful library. It makes lots of things simpler, and in most cases isn't an additional dependency.

serverholic · on Sept 4, 2015

jQuery is a bloated library that tries to do too much. It's slow and becoming less and less necessary as browsers become more standards compliant.

balls187 · on Sept 4, 2015

Can you link to articles on jQuery's performance issues?

Is it's implementation slow, or do you mean it's size makes over the wire transmission slow?

Are all jQuery methods slow, or specific cases like DOM manipulation and/or AJAX calls.

It seems that a few years back jQuery had these issues, but are those claims still relevant?

mtschopp · on Sept 4, 2015

It's because jQuery is a library on top of JavaScript. That makes it slower than native JavaScript.

If you don't need to support very old browsers you can easy go without jQuery.

Have a look at http://youmightnotneedjquery.com

alwillis · on Sept 5, 2015

Also: http://ponyfoo.com/articles/why-i-write-plain-javascript-mod...

Gigablah · on Sept 4, 2015

If you use React, there's react-grid-layout: https://strml.github.io/react-grid-layout/examples/0-showcas...

ssclafani · on Sept 4, 2015

Also:

https://github.com/jrowny/react-absolute-grid

https://github.com/xudafeng/autoresponsive-react

https://github.com/flipboard/react-canvas

err4nt · on Sept 5, 2015

No jQuery! http://codepen.io/tomhodgins/pen/vOqaVa

if you want grids its easy enough to just build exactly what you want, trying to use grid systems is harder than building them.

emodendroket · on Sept 4, 2015

It'd probably be preferable to have jQuery and various libraries that depend on it to having different, slightly different variations on things jQuery does from each library you include.

at-fates-hands · on Sept 4, 2015

Have you tried Jeet yet? It usually doesn't come up in the Google searches for grids.

http://jeet.gs/

pygy_ · on Sept 4, 2015

I really love the minimal yet very powerful approach taken by PocketGrid.

Http://arnaudleray.github.io/pocketgrid/