# bitovi/jquerypp

jQuery's missing utils and special events

Repository: https://github.com/bitovi/jquerypp
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jquerypp
Homepage: http://jquerypp.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2017-07-20T17:01:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5238, "days_push": 3331, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1204, forks 155 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:59.042679+00:00)

## What it is
jQuery++ is an MIT-licensed collection of low-level DOM helpers and special events for jQuery 1.8+, such as CSS-based animation, cookie handling, form serialization, text ranges, and delegatable drag/drop/swipe/hover events. It is not a UI widget library like jQuery UI, but a utility layer filling gaps in jQuery's core API.

## Use cases
- add drag and drop events to jQuery elements
- serialize an HTML form into a JavaScript object
- read and write cookies with jQuery
- animate elements using CSS3 transitions instead of JavaScript
- get and set the current text selection in the DOM
- detect swipe and hover gestures on touch and desktop
- find elements within a given area or point on the page

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy jQuery codebase and need low-level DOM utilities or special events
- you want lightweight drag, drop, swipe, or hover event support without a full UI framework
- you need form serialization, cookie helpers, or text range/selection utilities in a jQuery project

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new modern project without jQuery
- you need full UI widgets like datepickers or dialogs (use jQuery UI or a modern framework)
- you need actively maintained software with recent releases

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation, form-handling
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: jquery, dom-helpers, special-events, drag-and-drop, cookies, text-selection

## Member repositories
- bitovi/jquerypp (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.042679+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:19:38.851291+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bitovi/jquerypp (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.042679+00:00, sha 60cd032e5dc1)
  - homepage: http://jquerypp.com (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:35.640573+00:00, sha 95a8e0ee98d7)
  - site_page: http://jquerypp.com/release/latest/docs/animate.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:35.651019+00:00, sha 1bffffc6831c)
  - site_page: http://jquerypp.com/release/latest/docs/compare.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:35.653191+00:00, sha 53cad6732696)
  - site_page: http://jquerypp.com/release/latest/docs/cookie.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:35.654965+00:00, sha 361c28107a19)
  - site_page: http://jquerypp.com/release/latest/docs/form_params.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:35.656598+00:00, sha 0dc64c8a6cb9)
  - site_page: http://jquerypp.com/release/latest/docs/range.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:35.658329+00:00, sha b8dcb1dd92e4)
  - site_page: http://jquerypp.com/release/latest/docs/selection.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:35.660259+00:00, sha a3cf3363433a)
  - site_page: http://jquerypp.com/release/latest/docs/within.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:35.661868+00:00, sha 418bd55b82d1)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/jquerypp (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:35.665143+00:00, sha c8c0dacb65ea)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.