GitHub Top 25 | 20 - jQuery (53.2K)

Way before Angular, React and other JS libraries ruled the internet, jQuery was the king. Still useful in various use-cases and powerful as ever.

JQuery is a popular JavaScript library, enabling activities such as HTML document traversal, event handling, and animation.

"We make extensive use of [GitHub] for just about everything because we find it’s a really good way to organize the project"

says David Methvin, JQuery core lead and president of the JQuery Foundation.

Although there are fewer than 100 regular contributors, Methvin says thousands have chipped in on the project, which many contend to be the most popular JavaScript framework.