Flight vs jQuery UI: What are the differences?

Developers describe Flight as "A component-based, event-driven JavaScript framework from Twitter". Flight is distinct from existing frameworks in that it doesn't prescribe or provide any particular approach to rendering or providing data to a web application. It's agnostic to how requests are routed, which templating language you use or even if you render your HTML on the client or the server. While some web frameworks encourage developers to arrange their code around a prescribed model layer, Flight is organized around the existing DOM model with functionality mapped directly to DOM nodes. On the other hand, jQuery UI is detailed as "Curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library". Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

Flight and jQuery UI belong to "Javascript UI Libraries" category of the tech stack.

Flight and jQuery UI are both open source tools. jQuery UI with 10.7K GitHub stars and 5.06K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Flight with 6.64K GitHub stars and 588 GitHub forks.

TimeHop, Boston Technologies, and ZeroTurnaround are some of the popular companies that use jQuery UI, whereas Flight is used by Adtena, Birchbox, and Drip. jQuery UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1896 company stacks & 574 developers stacks; compared to Flight, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.