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winjs vs Select2: What are the differences?

winjs: A UI toolkit for modern browsers, by Microsoft. WinJS is a set of JavaScript toolkits that allow developers to build applications using HTML/JS/CSS technology forged with the following principles in mind: 1. Provide developers with a distinctive set of UI controls with high polish and performance with fundamental support for touch, mouse, keyboard and accessibility 2. Provide developers with a cohesive set of components and utilities to build the scaffolding and infrastructure of their applications'; 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.

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

winjs and Select2 are both open source tools. It seems that Select2 with 23.9K GitHub stars and 5.68K forks on GitHub has more adoption than winjs with 4.07K GitHub stars and 504 GitHub forks.

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      What is Select2?

      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.

      What is winjs?

      WinJS is a set of JavaScript toolkits that allow developers to build applications using HTML/JS/CSS technology forged with the following principles in mind: 1. Provide developers with a distinctive set of UI controls with high polish and performance with fundamental support for touch, mouse, keyboard and accessibility. 2. Provide developers with a cohesive set of components and utilities to build the scaffolding and infrastructure of their applications'

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      What are some alternatives to Select2 and winjs?
      jQuery
      jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
      React
      Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
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