jQuery Reading Assignment

1.) jQuery is a library that makes it faster and easier for devs to build pages and apps in JavaScript.

2.) jQuery is beneficial to devs because it can greatly reduce the amount of code needed to be written, dozens of lines of code reduced to one or two, simplifying the entire coding process.

3.) there are two versions of jQuery, one to analyze and understand the code being used on a page, and one that is compressed to make it smaller and able to run easier across the board on other devices.

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  1. What is jQuery?
    jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps.
    Standard libraries are downloaded to the browser in small files meaning our code can call these to add effects, animation and user interaction to our html page without having to code everything out ourselves.

  2. How does it help us as developers?
    It means we can achieve more with less code, as the inner workings are abstracted to the libraries. We just need to know how to call the necessary functions of each library we need to make them work for us.

  3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
    The uncompressed version is larger and human readable, so would be opened during development and learning to understand how the class function.
    For the end user, who doesn’t need to ‘look under the hood’, the minified version is smaller and quicker to download.

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  1. What is jQuery?
    a library with the most important functions

  2. How does it help us as developers?
    It has functions for:

  • adding animated effects to elements.
  • Making XML (Ajax) requests.
  • Manipulating the DOM
  • Creating image slideshows.
  • Making drop-down menus.
  • Creating drag-and-drop interfaces.
  • Adding power to forms.
  1. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
    Minified is small enough to put on website and load remotely,
    while the latter is readable
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1: jQuery is an accessible Javascript Library that helps web page designers with efficiency.
1: jQuery enables code to be written efficiently, it also assists with adding animation, slideshows
xml requests and more.
3: Uncompressed is in it’s origional form, it is easy to read but is a large file. Minified is a compressed version void of unnecessary comments and characters and is in the form of a much smaller file that is easier for the user to download.

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  1. JQuery is a library of JavaScript code that is free for anyone to use.

  2. JQuery gives access to code that has already been written for many functions that would be useful for developers in most any project, saving other people the time and effort of having to write it themselves.

  3. The uncompressed version has many comments that explain what the code is doing as well as spacing/formatting to make it much easier for humans to read and understand. The minified version has all the comments and extra spacing removed, and is the version that developers would actually put on their website. The reason for this is that it is a fraction of the filesize of the uncompressed version, meaning that it will load faster and use less bandwidth.

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  1. jQuery is a free javascript library.
  2. it helps developers by making it faster and potentially easier to write code. What would require more than 10-20 lines of code with Javascript, can be done with one single line of code with jQuery. Also, it allows to
  • create effects/animations
  • manipulate the DOM
  • create slideshows
  • handle real-time requests from the page to the server side without reloading the page

easily and also it allows for lines of code written with jQuery to solve intercompatiblity issues between browsers by simply calling a specific function.

  1. the minified version is to allow the download, as it weighs less. The uncompressed version contains all the corollary information needed to better understand the library (whitespaces and comments).
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  1. jQuery is the most popular JS library in use today. e.g. by Microsoft, Twitter ˛& ESPN.
  2. It makes it quicker and easier to build JS webpages and web apps (and create eye-catching animated effects, make Ajax requests, add power to forms…UI experience is better).This is possible because in jQuery we can write a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JS code. jQuery comes in a form of a .js file that we link from our web page. Our JS code access the library by calling various jQuery functions.
  3. The two versions of jQuery (free access):
  • uncompressed .js file that is easy to read and modify, but it is bigger in size (160 kb)
  • minified .js file, is 23 kb in size, thus quicker for download (but with comments removed, so harder to read), we rather use.
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  1. What is jQuery?
    jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps.
  2. How does it help us as developers?
    Often with jQuery you can write a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JavaScript code.
    it makes it easy to write JavaScript that works on many different browsers.
  3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
    uncompressed is easy to read and modify, but it’s not squeezed and light enough.
    minified has all comments, whitespace, and other unnecessary characters removed from the file, squeezing the whole library into a mere 23kb. the web page would be much quicker for visitors to download.
  1. What is jQuery?
    Query is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps.
  2. How does it help us as developers?
    jQuery is itself written in JavaScript, and comes in the form of a single .js file that you link to from your webpage. Your JavaScript code then accesses the library by calling various jQuery functions.
  3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
    The uncompressed.js file has size of 160kb; while as minified.js file 23kb, much quicker for visitors and download.
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  1. jQuery is a free JavaScript library
  2. Developers do not have to reinvent the wheel and built on other people’s code
  3. Minified for faster downloading Uncompressed for more readability and modification possibilities of the code
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  1. JQuery is a free JavaScript library.
  2. With jQuery you can write powerful JavaScript apps using fewer lines of code.
  3. There are two versions, minified version saves even more space allowing for users to download even faster.
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  1. jQuery is a library that makes easier to build web pages using JavaScript. jQuery is itself written in JavaScript code.
  2. It helps making easier do multiple things like: adds animated effects, manipulate the Document Object Model, create images slideshow or makes drop and down menu etc…
    Even if all the action and function the library jQuery implements can be written with our personal JavaScript code, jQuery helps us to avoid wasting time and make easier code in JavaScript
  3. The uncompressed version is more readable and easy to modify but takes up more space (around 160kb)
    The minified version takes up less space (23kb) at the expense of a more readability.
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  1. jQuery is a Javascript library that makes it quicker and easier to build Javascript websites.

  2. jQuery has the ability to help developers with multi-line code and minimize it to that of a much shorter amount of code. It is helpful when building apps, with the use a of powerful coding.

  3. The uncompressed version is larger and easier to read and modify, whereas the minified version removes all comments and whitespace shrinking it down to a much smaller size. The code in the minified version may be more difficult to read.

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Hello everyone,

  1. jQuery is a popular Javascript library.

  2. When we reuse existing code we can build web pages or web apps with few lines of code.

  3. Minified version is used on the website so it downloads faster. The uncompressed version has comments which makes it easier to understand code.

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  1. jQuery is a free Javascript library.

  2. jQuery helps developers by making it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps.

  3. The uncompressed version is easier to read and modify but it’s a very large file and the minified version has all the unnecessary characters removed and is the version you’ll want to place on your site, as it’s much quicker for visitors to download.

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  1. a free javascript library. It gives access to a ton of functions to help developers build a functioning web page.
  2. It makes it quicker and easier to build Javascript webpages and apps.
  3. Minified is for production and uncompressed is for development.
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  • What is jQuery?
    JavaScript library
  • How does it help us as developers?
    we can re use code
  • Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
  • The uncompressed .js file is easy to read and modify, but it’s around 160kb in size (at the time of writing).
  • The minified .js file has all comments, whitespace, and other unnecessary characters removed from the file, squeezing the whole library into a mere 23kb. Although you can’t easily read the code, this is the version you’ll want to place on your site, as it’s much quicker for visitors to download.
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  1. jQuery is a library which helps programmers build Javascript web-pages or web apps.

  2. It helps us as developers by enabling us to make our code shorter and clearer,

  3. We have two versions of jQuery so a programmer can choose between a form which is easier to read and modify, and a form which is smaller and so quicker to download.

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  1. jQuery is a library that makes it easier and quicker to build JavaScript webpages and web apps.
  2. It allows us to save time by using code that has been tested/works well and code being able to be used on other browsers and not having to rewrite the code for that specific browser.
  3. Uncompressed file allows developers to read and easily modify the script. The minified version is good to put on the website and allows users to easily load content on your website.
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  1. What is jQuery? Commonly used JavaScript library for webpages and web apps.

  2. How does it help us as developers? Using the library allows developers to call a single line of code from jQuery, instead of writing it from scratch, often saving the time it would take to write 10s of lines of code.

  3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?

  • minified .js file = condensed version of the jQuery library used in web code that is only 23kb so that site visitors can load the web page much quicker.

  • uncompressed .js file = full version of the jQuery library that includes all comments, making it better suited for development, but at the cost of a higher 160kb size (which is less suitable for use on web pages).

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