- What is jQuery?
A library written in JavaScript which contains a lot of (popular) functions. - How does it help us as developers?
It makes it easier to write JavaScirpt apps using fewer lines of code. - Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
The uncompressed file is easy to read and modify but takes a lot of space.
The minified file has all comments and unnecessary characters removed so it’s smaller and quicker to download (better for use).
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jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps. With jQuery you can write a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JavaScript code.
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As developers, it helps us by providing a means to quickly complete problems already solved by others.
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Uncompressed is a much larger file that contains comments, whitespace and other characters which make it easier for us to read and modify.
Minified is a smaller file that we would use in production to reduce the load time for our users.
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- jQuery is one of the most popular front end Javascript libraries that help developers build more efficiently.
- Easier DOM manipulation, preset interactive elements, well designed animations and AJAX handling.
- One readable and one compact for performance reasons.
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1. What is jQuery?
jQuery is a popular JavaScript library that allows you to easily manipulate your code and website with code plug-ins. This makes building web pages and codes with javascript easier and quicker to create. Using jQuery is done by connecting to a .js file that links to your website and then accesses the code using jQuery functions.
2. How does it help us as developers?
jQuery allows us to simplify our code and use single lines of code that may have previously taken 10-20 lines to create. This allows us to build faster and more efficiently and It also gives you the ability to do a ton of editing to your webpages, such as animations, drag and drops, slide shows, and much more.
3. Why do we have 2 versions of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
We have these two variations to provide for two different data size options. Minified jQuery files are formatted to take up less memory by removing the white spaces, comments, and unnecessary symbols to make the file much smaller and easier to download. This option works best for websites and pages that need to be quickly downloaded by the end user’s browser. The uncompressed jQuery files are a bit bigger but are easier to read and modify as they contain all of the original information. Uncompressed jQuery files are around 160kb and minified are about 23kb.
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- What is jQuery?
jQuery is a library allowing for easier and quicker development.
- How does it help us as developers?
A developer’s JavaScript engine can access this library by linking to it with a single line of code. This provides a lot of free to use functionality. jQuery also ensures code is interoperable among browsers.
- Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
An uncompressed version for readability, and a compressed version for usability i.e. it is saving space & quicker to download (23kb rather than 160kb).
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jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps.
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You can write a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10 - 20 lines of regular JavaScript code - saves time.
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Uncompressed- easy to read a modify, but it can take up a bit of space
Minified - You cannot easily read the code, but this version is much quicker for user interface
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jQuery is a JavaScript library that allows programmers to build webpages and web apps easier and faster.
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It helps developers because it already has built in functions for general case uses like manipulating DOM, animation or effects, interfaces, and basically the basic features of a webpage to build on top of.
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We have 2 versions because the first one, uncompressed, allows developers to easily read and modify but it takes up more space. The minified version removes unnecessary comments and statements which makes it harder to read but takes up lesser space.
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- What is jQuery?
It is a JavaScript Library. The most popular library used today. It makes it quicker an easier to build JavaScript web pages and web applications. In a lot of cases, you can write a single line of code in Jquery and achieve what would take 10-20 lines of code.
- How does it help us as developers?
It makes it easier to write powerful JavaScript apps and create eye catching effects. A lot of interactive items with the user on the web page/app as well.
- Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
The jQuery library actually comes in 2 forms:
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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- What is jQuery?
This is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps. - How does it help us as developers?
It is easier and quicker because often with jQuery we can write a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JavaScript code. - Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
The uncompressed .js file - it is bigger in size but there we have everything, all comments, whitespace, and other unnecessary characters.
The minified .js file - it is smaller and here all comments, whitespace, and other unnecessary characters removed from the file.
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- A library of JS code that has been contributed by developers. It makes building JS webpages and web apps much quicker and easier.
- It provides free accessibility to pre-written code, thus making the construction of webpages themselves more streamlined.
- An uncompressed file is large in size as it containing the library in it’s entirety. A minified file is the same except with all non-code elements removed, making it faster to download but mildly more difficult to read.
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- jQuery is a highly used javascript library that enables advanced capabilities on a website.
- It reduces coding time drastically, allowing us to focus on the larger project goals.
- The minified version is best for being utilized by the webpage as it’s smaller and loads faster. The uncompressed version is a great reference source for the developer as you can look and understand what is happening under the hood.
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1). JQuery is a free JavaScript library.
2). With jQuery developers can write powerful JavaScript apps/programs using fewer lines of code.
3). The uncompressed version is readable as it contains comments and all, which makes it easier for developers to read and know the code functionality. Meanwhile , the minified version is best for building our apps due to its lesser storage requirement making our apps download faster
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- jQuery is a free Javascript library. It comes in 2 versions of a .js file. It allows us to quickly implement powerful javascript apps. It also allows for the code to work across different browsers.
- It means that we can reuse someone’s code and makes changes to it. It allows us to get our ideas out quickly rather than spending so long writing the code.
- The uncompressed version has comments and extra bits of information which make it easier to read, the other version is so that it loads faster on the webpage.
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What is jQuery?
A popular javascript library that helps developers build javascript apps with less code. -
How does it help us as developers?
jQuery is great for things like animations, Ajax requests, DOM manipulation, image effects, and user interface elements. With jQuery we can implement these features with less code -
Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
1.The uncompressed version is readable and maintainable, The minified version is as small as possible to allow for the script to load faster on pages.
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- jQuery is a free JavaScript library.
- With jQuery you can write powerful JavaScript apps using fewer lines of code. jQuery is great for things like animations, Ajax requests, DOM manipulation, image effects, and user interface elements. jQuery lets you easily write cross-browser JavaScript code.
- The uncompressed jQuery file is easy to read and modify and the minified file has all comments, whitespace, and other unnecessary characters removed from the file, squeezing the whole library into a mere 23kb. The uncompressed is easier to read, the minified is faster to load by browsers.
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- It is a javascript library that allows developers to add functionality to web apps
- It simplifies the writing of javascript code.
- The minified version is light and great for web pages because it is small. The uncompressed allows us to view the actual javascript libraries within jQuery.
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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. It’s a library of useful JavaScript code that developers can re-use when programming a webpage.
2. How does it help us as developers?
jQuery makes it easy for developers to write powerful JavaScript apps and create eye-catching animated effects and Ajax requests, DOM manipulation, image effects, and user interface elements. Furthermore, jQuery helps developers to easily write cross-browser JavaScript code.
3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
The uncompressed version is easier to read (and to understand/modify) for programmers (but also a large file and hence slower) while the minified version removed any unnecessary characters/comments and is squeezed into a mere 23kb file and hence is faster and easier to download for visitors. Developers therefore use most of the time the minified version.
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- What is jQuery?
jQuery is a library of functions that a JavaScript coder can use to quickly and effectively code web pages and web applications.
- How does it help us as developers?
We do not have to reinvent the wheel by coding something that has been coded thousands of times already. jQuery also has the added convenience of customizing its library to specific web browsers.
- Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
The uncompressed version is easier for a coder to read and modify, but the minified version compresses the file so it is much faster to load a web page once unnecessary white space, comments, and characters have been removed.
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- It is a library that makes it quicker to build Js webpages and web apps. It can deal with compatibility issues between browsers, and it’s free to download.
- It helps by getting a lot of functionality that otherwise would be translated as “time” (wasted) on code that already exists.
- theres the “uncompressed” version, and the “minified” version that is 7 times lighter that the uncompressed, it removes all unnecessary data so you can place it on the site, as it will be faster for visitors to download.
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jQuery is a library for Javascript. It reduces length of JS’s code and make developers write code easily.
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Complex and lengthly codes are pre-made as functions, this saves a lot of time for developers.
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Some people may want to tweak the library. Without whitespaces and comments, it would be almost impossible for them to modify.
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