# Umbrella JS

Lightweight JavaScript library for DOM manipulation and events, with a jQuery-like API.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/umbrella/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- home: https://umbrellajs.com/
- repository: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella
- docs: https://umbrellajs.com/documentation

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Francisco Presencia
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2015
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: library
- hosting: unknown
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: not applicable
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-24

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2349
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 2953
- contributors: 28
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 61
- dependentPackages: 21

### Sources

- urls: https://umbrellajs.com/ (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/readme.md (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/readme.md (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://umbrellajs.com/ (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/readme.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/readme.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/readme.md (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/franciscop/umbrella (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/readme.md (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/tree/1.0.0 (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/franciscop/umbrella/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/umbrellajs/latest (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/franciscop/umbrella (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/franciscop/umbrella/contributors (read 2026-10-28)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/umbrellajs (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/umbrellajs (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/umbrellajs (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Umbrella JS is a DOM library with an API modeled on jQuery's. It selects elements and handles events. A site or web app loads it from a CDN with a script tag, adds a downloaded file, or installs it with npm.

The library adds a `handle` method, which attaches an event listener and passes the event to a function, and an `ajax` helper. Some methods, such as `append`, accept more argument types than their jQuery counterparts. The [porting guide](https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/jquery.md) describes the differences for code moved from jQuery, and the library uses native DOM methods underneath.

## Worth knowing

Older browsers sit outside the supported range: the porting guide lists Internet Explorer 10 and earlier, and SVG in Internet Explorer 11, as unsupported.

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