Benchmark: jQuery vs Umbrella JS SetText Speed Test

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/umbrella/2.7.0/umbrella.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

Umbrella JS .text
var el = u("#foo").text("New Hello World");
Umbrella JS .html
var el = u("#foo").html("New Hello World");
Umbrella JS .find().text()
var el = u(document).find("#foo").html("New Hello World");
jQuery .text()
$("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .html()
$("#foo").html("New Hello World");
jQuery .find().text()
$(document).find("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .find().html()
$(document).find("#foo").html("New Hello World");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Umbrella JS .text
Umbrella JS .html
Umbrella JS .find().text()
jQuery .text()
jQuery .html()
jQuery .find().text()
jQuery .find().html()

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; ANE-LX1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.58 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome Mobile 99 on Android

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Test name	Executions per second
Umbrella JS .text	44500.7 Ops/sec
Umbrella JS .html	15445.5 Ops/sec
Umbrella JS .find().text()	8865.2 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	35961.1 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	16697.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .find().text()	27823.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .find().html()	12950.7 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 months ago):

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**Benchmark Overview**

The provided JSON represents a JavaScript microbenchmark test created on MeasureThat.net, comparing the performance of two JavaScript libraries: jQuery and Umbrella.js.

**Library Explanation**

*   **jQuery**: A popular JavaScript library used for DOM manipulation, events handling, and Ajax requests. It provides an easy-to-use API for interacting with HTML documents.
*   **Umbrella.js**: A lightweight alternative to jQuery, aiming to provide similar functionality with fewer dependencies and a smaller footprint.

**Benchmarked Methods**

The benchmark compares the execution speed of six methods:

1.  `setText()` (Umbrella.js): Sets the text content of an element.
2.  `html()` (jQuery): Sets the HTML content of an element.
3.  `find().text()` (jQuery and Umbrella.js): Finds an element by its ID and sets its text content.
4.  `find().html()` (jQuery): Finds an element by its ID and sets its HTML content.

**Comparison Options**

The benchmark compares these six methods on the same element with the id "foo". Each method is executed in sequence, allowing for a fair comparison of their performance.

**Pros and Cons of Different Approaches:**

1.  **Umbrella.js `setText()`**: This approach is straightforward and optimized for text manipulation.
2.  **jQuery `html()`**: jQuery provides a more comprehensive DOM manipulation API, which can lead to slower execution times due to additional overhead.
3.  **jQuery `.find().text()`**: This method uses the `find` function to locate the element, potentially introducing unnecessary overhead.
4.  **Umbrella.js `find().text()`**: Similar to the jQuery variant, but using Umbrella's `find` function instead.

**Additional Considerations:**

1.   **Dependency Overhead**: Both libraries have dependencies that may impact performance, such as DOM manipulation and parsing.
2.   **Browser-Specific Behavior**: Different browsers might exhibit varying behavior when executing these methods, which can affect benchmark results.
3.   **Execution Order**: The order of method execution can also impact performance, as some libraries might optimize for certain cases.

**Other Alternatives:**

For similar JavaScript benchmarks, you may want to explore other frameworks like:

*   Lodash
*   Moment.js (for date manipulation)
*   VanillaJS (plain JavaScript implementation)

Keep in mind that each framework has its strengths and weaknesses, and the choice of which one to use depends on your specific project requirements.

Related benchmarks:

jQuery vs Umbrella JS SetText Speed Test (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Umbrella JS .text vs Umbrella JS .html vs Umbrella JS .find().text() vs jQuery .text() vs jQuery .html() vs jQuery .find().text() vs jQuery .find().html()

Created: 7 years ago by: Registered User

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Umbrella JS .text

Umbrella JS .html

Umbrella JS .find().text()

jQuery .text()

jQuery .html()

jQuery .find().text()

jQuery .find().html()

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 months ago):