What is jQuery? What Benefits Do I get by Using it?
jQuery
is free,
open source software,
licensed under the MIT
License. jQuery's syntax is designed to make it easier to
navigate a document, select DOM
elements, create animations,
handle events,
and develop Ajax
applications. jQuery also provides capabilities for developers to
create plug-ins
on top of the JavaScript library. This enables developers to create
abstractions
for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and
high-level, theme-able widgets. The modular approach to the jQuery
library allows the creation of powerful dynamic
web pages and web applications.
The
purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your
website.
Before
you start studying jQuery, you should have a basic knowledge of:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
The
jQuery library contains the following features:
- HTML/DOM manipulation
- CSS manipulation
- HTML event methods
- Effects and animations
- AJAX
- Utilities
jQuery
is very compact and well written JavaScript code that increases the
productivity of the developer by enabling them to achieve critical UI
functionality by writing very small amount of code. The following are some of its widely known and used features/functionalities
- It helps to improve the performance of the application
- It helps to develop most browser compatible web page
- It helps to implement UI related critical functionality without writing hundreds of lines of codes
- It is fast
- It is extensible – jQuery can be extended to implement customized behavior
Other
advantages of jQuery are:
- No need to learn fresh new syntaxes to use jQuery, knowing simple JavaScript syntax is enough
- Simple and cleaner code, no need to write several lines of codes to achieve complex functionality
Where
to begin learning jQuery???
I
have found the following sources very good for beginning jQuery:
I
hope you will find this post helpful and please add more to it!
interesting, tnx 4 sharing
ReplyDeleteinteresting, tnx 4 sharing
ReplyDelete