x vs. y – jQuery vs. dojo

If you need some make-up to boost a bland HTML Web page, resorting to (quite script/function oriented) jQuery is the ‘right’ thing do. I say this in favor of jQuery even though dojo/dijit can do that too to – some extent.

When you need or want to write a client-side application with very dynamic, (meta) data driven UI layout and UI logic – or even a Web 2.0 application in Single Page Architecture (SPA) where all is written in JavaScript and executed in the browser except the backend services – you are better off with a framework or toolkit that implements all the concepts and paradigms you find in successful, matured, and hardened large software systems…

Your bias shows blatantly…’ I hear you muttering…