jQuery - JAVASCRIPT: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning the Basics of JavaScript Programming (2015)

JAVASCRIPT: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning the Basics of JavaScript Programming (2015)

Chapter 25. jQuery

Before the development of jQuery, web developers had to make their own JS frameworks. This permitted them to work around certain bugs without spending too much time to debug the usual features. This resulted to developers making JS libraries, which are free to use.

Basically, JQuery is a particular library of JS code. There are other JS code libraries like MooTools. However, jQuery became widely used because it is simple to use and very effective.

Even though many developers are still confused of jQuery and JavaScript as two independent languages, it is crucial for you to know that these are both JS. The main difference is that the jQuery could be optimized to perform other typical scripting functions and it could still do while using less code lines.

Many web developers have been debating if jQuery or JavaScript should be used in a certain situation. But there is actually no correct answer. You can use either language to create the same results, but usually jQuery could do this with less code lines.

In general, jQuery is enough for majority of web development projects. There will be some projects, which require conventional JavaScript. But they are becoming quite rare. Even though jQuery could be the better option in most settings, as a starting developer, you must still learn both jQuery and JavaScript.

Even though using JavaScript alone could slow down the completion of your project, it is crucial to know how this language works and how it could affect the DOM (Document Object Model).

Bear in mind that the main difference between JavaScript and jQuery is that the latter has been optimized to work with different browsers easily. Unluckily, JS still has some concerns with cross-browser compatibility because of poor JS implementation strategies of developers.