However, something I've struggled a little more related to jquery is finding and using the plugin. The official plugin website is really not optimal and it's hard to find the "best" plugin when you're looking for something.

I guess an unofficial jquery plugin website where you could easily:

  1- Find a couple of plugin that do what you want
 
  2- Let you try the demo as fast as possible 
 
  3- Let you glance over the code, see comments and rating of others developers. 
 
  4- Have an easy and clear: Crash 30 sec installation
 
  5- Give an access to the documentation.

This is the order I usually execute when searching for a jquery plugin.. it's just that each of those steps are sometime unnecessary hard. I.e. multiple versions on the jquery, hard to find the real website of the plugin, have to look github issues to see other comments, demo page not working or deprecated, hard to see the "Installation and quick example", etc.