cell vs Select2: What are the differences?

cell: A self-driving web app framework. cell is a self-constructing web app framework powered by a self-driving DOM. Learning cell is mostly about understanding how cell works, and not about how to use and memorize some API methods, because there is no API; Select2: The jQuery replacement for select boxes. It gives you a customizable select box with support for searching, tagging, remote data sets, infinite scrolling, and many other highly used options. It comes with support for RTL environments, searching with diacritics and over 40 languages built-in.

cell and Select2 can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by cell are:

• Self contained - each element is its own universe (context) with its own variables and functions
• Self driving - each element communicates with outside world via stateless function calls. This means each cell can survive on its own and plug into anything with zero overhead/footprint.
• No API - cell is all about how you structure your logic and not about learning how to use some proprietary API.

On the other hand, Select2 provides the following key features:

• comes with support for RTL environments, searching with diacritics and over 40 languages built-in
• Using AJAX you can efficiently search large lists of items
• Fully skinnable, CSS built with Sass and an optional theme for Bootstrap 3

cell and Select2 are both open source tools. Select2 with 23.9K GitHub stars and 5.68K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than cell with 1.55K GitHub stars and 104 GitHub forks.