We have collected for you the 30 fresh, free and popular jQuery plugins that will help to speed up the design of your projects and make it more user friendly. jQuery plugins are constantly being released, and it’s no surprise since they are insanely popular, and for good reason. The only problem is looking through the whole amount and finding the best ones. That’s why we constantly keep on searching, and this time we found some good ones for you.
Data Img
Tiny jQuery plugin to deal with responsive image delivery.
fontIconPicker
jQuery plugin which allows you to include a simple icon picker with search and pagination inside your administration forms. The list of icons can be loaded manually using a SELECT field, loading an array of icons or directly from a Fontello config.json file.
Ratchet
Build mobile apps with simple HTML‚ CSS‚ and JS components.
Matter.js
HTML5 javascript physics engine.
Notebook
A simple, clean and elegant WYSIWYG rich text editor for web aplications.
ProgressJs
ProgressJs is a JavaScript and CSS3 library which helps developers create and manage progress bars for any object on the page. You can design your own template for progress bars or simply customize them.
Doctored.js
A new kind of editor.
Placeholdem
Placeholdem is a JavaScript plugin that animates placeholder carets on inputs and textareas. The placeholder value will incrementally delete on focus, and restore on blur.
Dug.js
It was designed to be a lightweight, simple, library-independent script to pull in feeds of content available on the web as JSONP to display on your site.
Fluidbox
Replicating and improving the lightbox module seen on Medium with fluid transitions.
Wanker
Responsive design has been a blessing to web crafters everywhere. The web, however, was meant to be read, not squished. jquery.wanker.js is a tiny jQuery plugin that reveals a public service announcement when people start excessively resizing their desktop browser as they try to see your responsive breakpoints.
Wookmark
A jQuery plugin to create a dynamic, multi-column layout.
rangeslider.js
Simple, small and fast JavaScript/jQuery polyfill for the HTML5 input type=”range” slider element.
editable-table
This tiny jQuery plugin turns any table into an editable spreadsheet.
InstantClick
InstantClick is a JavaScript library that dramatically speeds up your website, making navigation effectively instant in most cases.
Drop.js
The fast and capable dropdown library.
Jquery.keyframes
jQuery.Keyframes generates and runs CSS3 keyframes quickly and easily allowing you to concentrate on the content of your project whilst cutting down code.
Highlight.js
Highlight.js highlights syntax in code examples on blogs, forums and, in fact, on any web page. It’s very easy to use because it works automatically: finds blocks of code, detects a language, highlights it.
scrollReveal.js
Declarative on-scroll reveal animations.
Fit.js
Fit.js has a very simple purpose and that is to help you fit things into other things.
Lazyload
A jQuery plugin provides a lazyload function for images, iframe or anything.
Orbit.js
A standalone library for data access and synchronization.
Least.js
Random & Responsive jQuery, HTML 5 & CSS3 Gallery with LazyLoad
Mapsed.js
Google maps & places jQuery integration plug-in.
CoverPop.js
CoverPop.js is a lightweight lightbox’y plugin with cookie integration.
jInvertScroll
A lightweight plugin for jQuery that allows you to move in horizontal with a parallax effect while scrolling down.
Webkit.js
An experimental port of WebKit (Specifically, webcore) to JavaScript aimed at running in both node.js and browsers. This is currently semi-functional and is intended for developers and contributors.
Args.js
Args.js lets you easily create functions with optional parameters, default parameters, parameter groups and named parameters. It checks types and will trigger exceptions if a function is called incorrectly.
countUp.js
countUp.js is a dependency-free, lightweight JavaScript “class” that can be used to quickly create animations that display numerical data in a more interesting way.
Planetary.js
Awesome interactive globes for the web.
Least.js
Random & Responsive jQuery, HTML 5 & CSS3 Gallery with LazyLoad.