Best practice to deploy multiple .js libs

Hello World,

i think a modern web sites is a big Java Script ocean. Today have many powerful, flexible and lovely Js libraries like:
Jquery, MooTools, highslide, DOJO, Lightbox, Script.aculo.us....
http://www.javascriptlibraries.com/
more, more, more, more

my question is how work with multiple Js libs? For example in my work for one task in project i thing MooTools is work perfectly but for another task Jquery or LightBox... or something else...
how work wirt 3-4 different libs...

10x

hi,

i think you should avoid mixing different lirbraries, stick to one and use the plugins/effects for the one you’ve chosen, most effects are almost identical, you’ll find enough lightboxes for mootools, jquery & prototype...if you have to mix libraries, for whatever reasons, you can run jquery for example in noConflict mode -> http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries and mootools in dollar safe mode -> http://mootools.net/blog/2009/06/22/the-dollar-safe-mode/

j

Quote from: sharkbait at Jun 25, 2009, 03:41 AM

hi,

i think you should avoid mixing different lirbraries, stick to one and use the plugins/effects for the one you’ve chosen, most effects are almost identical, you’ll find enough lightboxes for mootools, jquery & prototype...if you have to mix libraries, for whatever reasons, you can run jquery for example in noConflict mode -> http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries and mootools in dollar safe mode -> http://mootools.net/blog/2009/06/22/the-dollar-safe-mode/

j

yes, for Jquery, Mootools and prototypet this is resolution.
my problem is with highslide ( http://highslide.com/ ) and custom-checkboxes-and-radio-buttons ( http://ryanfait.com/resources/custom-checkboxes-and-radio-buttons/ ).
but now i find this ( http://customformelements.net/ ) - this work with Jquery and mootools ...

I’d DEFINITELY recommend not mixing JS libraries if at all possible.

yep, but web 2.0 need more, more, more functioning - effects, dynamic, logic... and other side users - want fast and beautiful projects.
problem is in JS libraries - why every library use same functions (with same name, same char like $ )?
i thing they need make "stand - alone" libs.
i`m designer and i don`t need to understand programing...i see Jquery make some task good and add to my project, see mootools make some task good and add...simple, easy

forgot.

some links for multiple js (or something like this):
http://bexhuff.com/2006/11/multiple-multiple-so-many-javascript-libraries
http://2tbsp.com/node/99
http://ajaxian.com/archives/best-practices-in-javascript-library-design