10 Best jQuery Plugins for 2014

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If you’re a web developer, then you should be aware of jQuery, its functionality and its uses. Almost every web developer and designer are familiar about jQuery and its features, as it resolves many issues and fits almost everybody’s website requirements to make it creative, innovative, and unique.

In today’s article, we’re going to share with you some of the best jQuery plugins that are worth adding to your collection this 2014. They’ll surely help you optimize your websites and make them beautiful, visually stunning, and highly engaging.

Enjoy!

stickyNavbar.js

stickyNavbar.js is a jQuery plugin that allows you to stick your navigation bars to the top of the browser window while scrolling. What’s more, you can use your favorite jQuery effects or even the amazing Animate.css library to make navigation even smoother and more awesome.

Croppic

This image-cropping jQuery plugin will perfectly suit your needs, and more! Just upload an image, and then you can crop it as you like with the in-and-out zooming functionality.

jQuerylightGallery

jQuerylightGallery is a lightweight jQuery lightbox gallery plugin for displaying your photos and videos. It comes loaded with awesome features like touch support for mobile devices, support for YouTube and Vimeo videos, slide and fade effects, image captions and descriptions, CSS transitions with jQuery fallback, and a whole lot more besides.

Remodal

This lightweight, highly customizable, and fast modal window plugin has a flat and responsive design. It has declarative state notation and hash tracking, and supports all major browsers. With it, you can easily define the background container for the modal, for effects such as blur.

Image Lightbox

The Image Lightbox plugin is ascetic, minimalistic, extensible and highly configurable, with a responsive and touch-friendly design. It’s compatible with iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. The plugin silently reloads your next image, uses CSS transformation and transition, interacts with the keyboard, and more.

Velocity.js

This plugin makes jQuery’s .animate() method a whole lot faster – even faster than CSS animations. Consider using it instead of jQuery’s built-in .animate() function. It’s an industry secret to getting your websites to run faster on mobile devices!

ScrollMagic

ScrollMagic allows you to use the scroll bar like a progress bar. It’s the perfect choice for those who want to start an animation at a specific scroll position, sync an animation to the scroll bar movement, pin an element at a specific scroll position (sticky elements), etc.