Additionally he worked with Professor Jon Schull on exploring new ways of encouraging real-time online collaboration. The opportunities that RIT presented, both through learning from fellow students in Computer Science House and from professors, has greatly influenced John's ability and desire to continue learning throughout his career. Created in by John Resig while he was still a student at RIT and released as an open source library January , jQuery has continued to grow and become a dominant part of modern web development, used in over Give to RIT.
Then came the collaboration stage, groups of developers instead of writing their own code would give it away for free and creating JavaScript code sets that everyone could use. That is what JQuery is, a library of JavaScript code. The best way to explain JQuery and its mission is well stated on the front page of the JQuery website which says:. As you can see all JQuery is, is JavaScript. Which is better to use JavaScript or JQuery? This is a question that is constantly asked.
Which is the best JavaScript or JQuery is a contentious discussion, really the answer is neither is best.
They both have their roles I have worked on online applications where JQuery was not the right tool and what the application needed was straight JavaScript development. But for most websites JQuery is all that is needed. What a web developer needs to do is make an informed decision on what tools are best for their client.
Someone first coming into web development does need some exposure to both technologies just using JQuery all the time does not teach the nuances of JavaScript and how it affects the DOM. Using JavaScript all the time slows projects down and because the JQuery framework has ironed most of the issues that JavaScript will have between each web browser it makes the deployment safe as it is sure to work across all platforms.
One of the great advantages of JQuery or another JavaScript framework is the speed in which code can be written. One line of code can change how a project will interact with a user with very little effort. So at least on the admin side, they have variations that are not dependent on it.
He expects that over time WordPress will move onto newer technologies, but that it will be a gradual process. Developers are being encouraged to replace it, but at their own risk. A little history is needed to answer that. Remember, this was before Google Chrome had come along to shake things up, so it was an era of little browser innovation. Even at the time, IE6 had a reputation as a historically bad browser.
Simon Willison , who Resig listed as one of his influences when creating jQuery , noted some of the problems JavaScript developers had with browsers in a June post:. So basically, jQuery had been invented to help developers deal with the browser inadequacies of the time.
Also, the JavaScript standard itself has significantly improved over the past decade, especially after the release of ECMAScript 6 in As noted, React has become the most talked-about JavaScript library of today.
Modern frameworks, notably Next. Other popular frameworks, such as Angular the successor to AngularJS have their own ecosystem of libraries. Each operation on such a wrapper creates a new one. The fact that GitHub contributions to jQuery are well down on its peak years till around also signifies that not much more can be done to make jQuery more compatible with our current web. It still does the job it set out to do, after all, and it remains a convenient JavaScript library for developers to reach for.
In any case, jQuery will be embedded in tens of millions of WordPress sites for years to come.
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