Ask HN: What happened to jQuery UI development?

jQuery UI hasn't had a release in over a year, and hasn't has a commit for 5 months straight.

Has there been any official word about the ongoing development of the project, or have developers just moved on to other things?

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I've never used it much, but my guess is that web app developers have moved on to Bootstrap and there's not a lot of them using it anymore, or, as in my case, using just a few of the features it offers which, in my case, isn't a good use of it.

There are a couple of curated widget sets that bundle up and sometimes extend jquery ui. Jquery easy ui is one I used in a project last year. There’s another I don’t recall the name at the moment.

I actually recommend using something like this as a learning experience. Using raw js and a lib like this is very basic, you’re exposed to a lot of issues modern framework solve for you.

Also note lack of releases isn’t necessarily bad thing for mature projects.

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