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In this blog, we will talk about jQuery. jQuery is a JavaScript library, which was designed to improve the client-side scripting of HTML. The main purpose of jQuery is to provide an easy way to use JavaScript's complicated features on our website to make it more interactive & attractive. Let's see more about jQuery in this blog.
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# What Is jQuery?
jQuery is a small, fast & feature-rich JavaScript library. The motto of
jQuery is "write less, do more". jQuery provides cross-browser
compatibility & also cross-platform support, which means that you can use it on any Operating System, Windows, Linux, Mac OS, etc. With the help
of jQuery, it is easy to create API's and also traverse and manipulate
HTML documents. It makes animations, effects, event handling, and many more features easy to use with many more features.
jQuery is used in many places to either create websites or web applications. jQuery is used in many top companies that we will see as we move forward in this post.
jQuery is a very powerful tool, that is very useful and provides us many functions.
# History
jQuery was developed by John Resig at BarCamp NYC In January 2006. The
jQuery project is headed by Timmy Wilson and is also currently run by a team of developers as an open-source project.
Nowadays, jQuery is a widely used technology. Most of the websites or web apps are build using jQuery.
jQuery 1.0 was released in August 2006.
jQuery 2.0 was released in April 2013.
jQuery 3.0 was released in June 2016.
The latest version of jQuery is 3.6, released on March 2, 2021.
Before learning jQuery, you need to know at least basic HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
# Why use jQuery?
Sometimes, a question arises that why you should learn jQuery? When there
are so many other feature-rich JavaScript frameworks & libraries out
there.
Before any of these new JavaScript frameworks & libraries, jQuery was widely used and many web apps, websites are still built with jQuery. Many top companies still use jQuery in their day-to-day operations. The popularity of jQuery might have been overtaken by other libraries, but it is
still widely used.
Now, let's see why you should learn jQuery.
- It is very fast & extensible.
- It improves the performance of the application.
- Web applications developed are browser compatible.
- It makes many JavaScript features easier to use.
- It simplifies JavaScript.
- It is lightweight.
- Animations & event handling are a lot easier using jQuery.
The list does not end here, there are many other interesting things that you can do with jQuery.
# Features of jQuery
There are many features that jQuery has but we will see a quite few.
- Advantages:
- Saves a lot of time.
- Simplifies many JavaScript features.
- Easy to use.
- Compatibility with browsers.
- It is free to use.
- Disadvantages:
- The library is huge to download.
- The functionality might be limited.
- The jQuery JavaScript folder is necessary to use jQuery.
- The popularity has decreased and so has the community support.
- Less no. of tutorials as compared to other frameworks & libraries.
# Platforms to learn jQuery
1. W3Schools
2. CodeCademy
4. YouTube
5. Udemy
# Job Opportunities
With jQuery, you have so many career options, as it involves HTML, CSS
& JavaScript.
A few career options are:
- Front-End Developer
- Back-End Developer
- Full-Stack Developer
- Web Designer
- UX Designer
- DevOps Engineer, etc.
# Companies using jQuery
Some companies using jQuery are:
- Microsoft.
- Google.
- IBM.
- Netflix.
# Conclusion
This article was just about jQuery. I have given all the insights you need to know before starting to learn a language. If you want a career in Web
Development jQuery can also be helpful, once you learn jQuery you can move ahead. Again, jQuery is losing its popularity because of frameworks &
libraries such as ReactJS, AngularJS, etc. But it is still used in many companies and is used in many websites & web apps.
Hope this article has helped you gain insight on jQuery and what all is
required to learn in jQuery.
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