jQuery

jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.

What is jQuery used for?

jQuery is a lightweight, “write less, do more”, JavaScript library. The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website. jQuery takes a lot of common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript code to accomplish, and wraps them into methods that you can call with a single line of code.

Is jQuery better than JavaScript?

Though JavaScript is the basic language from which jQuery has evolved, jQuery makes event handling, DOM manipulation, Ajax calls much easier than JavaScript. jQuery also allows us to add animated effects on our web page which takes a lot of pain and lines of code with JavaScript

Is jQuery used anymore?

“According to Built with, of the top 10,000 websites about 88% (or close to 9,000) of them are currently using jQuery as of the beginning of 2019.” jQuery is a well-tested library with a large community of developers who continue to contribute time and effort to modernize and improve the library.

Is jQuery and JS same?

JavaScript is an independent language and can exist on its own. JQuery is a JavaScript library. It would not have been invented had JavaScript was not there. jQuery is still dependent on JavaScript as it has to be converted to JavaScript for the browser in-built JavaScript engine to interpret and run it.

If you’re updating to a newer version of jQuery, be sure to read the release notes published on their official website. If you’re coming from a version prior 1.9, you should check out the 1.9 Upgrade Guide as well.