Staying on top of modern design trends and learning how to execute them for your websites and projects can be a full-time job…unless you take advantage of these libraries and plugins. The following list of jQuery and JavaScript libraries and plugins will help you integrate some trendy effects (watercolors, video embeds, and fading transitions, to name a few) into your website quickly and easily so you can keep your designs modern and on-trend without having to sacrifice a lot of time.
1. Aquarelle
Aquarelle is a library for creating beautiful and vibrant watercolor effects that can be applied to images as animations.
2. TwentyTwenty
TwentyTwenty allows you to place an image on top of another with a smooth sliding effect to go back and forth between the two images. It’s a great interactive tool to use to compare two images.
Embedding a video to use as a site’s background is becoming an increasingly popular design trend. The SuperEmbed.js library allows for videos to be embedded from sites such as YouTube, Vine, and Vimeo, and will make them completely responsive.
Magnific Popup is a JavaScript plugin that creates a lightbox effect. Perfect to add to an image gallery, but the plugin also works with embedded YouTube videos and Google Maps.
5. Tabslet
Tabs are a great design trend that work well to display different types of content. The Tabslet plugin makes it incredibly easy to add sleek, smooth, and even animated tabs to any of your projects.
6. Choices.js
Choices is a jQuery plugin to style input fields and dropdown lists. It’s completely configurable and adds a trendy and modern touch to any form.
7. Slinky
Creating mobile-friendly menus can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. With Slinky, you can easily create a light-weight, responsive menu that would look great on any modern site.
8. Animsition
Animsition is a plugin that offers 58 different and beautifully animated transition effects for you to use on your projects. It’s easy to use and lightweight.
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