When comparing Dojo Toolkit vs jQuery UI, the Slant community recommends Dojo Toolkit for most people. In the question“What are the best open source JavaScript GUI/widget frameworks? ” Dojo Toolkit is ranked 3rd while jQuery UI is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Dojo Toolkit is:
Dojo Toolkit is a highly modular framework. It uses AMD modules and the module system is extremely powerful and easy to learn.
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Pros
Pro Highly modular
Dojo Toolkit is a highly modular framework. It uses AMD modules and the module system is extremely powerful and easy to learn.
Pro Consistent and complete
Pro Not only web apps
Dojo is not used only for web development. The widgets featured in Dojo can also be used to create mobile user interfaces.
Pro Cross-browser compatibility
jQuery UI, like jQuery has great cross-browser and backward compatibility with the most popular browsers on the market.
Pro Globalization support
jQuery UI has internationalization (globalization) support.
Cons
Con Not able to keep up with the future of the web
The web is moving towards web components, something that Dojo does not implement. In its current state Dojo badly needs more abstraction and it also needs to provide some form of modern application architecture.
Con Integrated first-party loader makes interoperability extremely difficult
Con No startup-function
When the dojo-javascript is loaded, it will directly run the application. No chance to intercept with the options
Con Slow development
jQuery UI development is rather slow and new features or components are not released frequently.