jQuery Roundup: Smartupdater, vkTemplate, Handpicked jQuery Plugins

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at 2011-11-29 08:00:00

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Smartupdater

Smartupdater (GitHub: vkiryukhin / Smartupdater, License: MIT and GPL) by Vadim Kiryukhin is a plugin that specialises in Ajax polling, originally featured on DailyJS last year in jQuery Rolling and Polling. It has recently been updated to version 4.0 (beta).

The API has been updated to reduce the number of functions the plugin adds to jQuery, so rather than $('#myObject').smartupdaterStop(), $('#myObject').smartupdater("stop") can be used instead.

vkTemplate

Vadim Kiryukhin has also released vkTemplate (GitHub: vkiryukhin / vkTemplate, License: MIT and GPL). This is a small (less than 1.5kb) templating plugin that’s designed to be used with Ajax. Given URLs for a template and date, a template can be rendered like this:

$('#subcontainer').vkTemplate('/user.tmpl', '/users/1.json');

// JSON can be passed as well
$('#subcontainer').vkTemplate('/user.tmpl', { name: 'Kurt', email: 'kurt@thepope.org' });

Handpicked jQuery Plugins

The Handpicked jQuery Plugins Repo is a list of jQuery plugins curated by David Higgins. It’s actually a repository on GitHub, and he invites people to fork it here: higgo / handpicked.jquery.plugins.repo.

David has also made a site where the plugins can be browsed, at iwantaneff.in/repo/. And, if you’re not comfortable with git he’s even uploaded the plugins as files that can be downloaded from iwantaneff.in/repo/browser/.

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