jQuery Reading Assignment

[xela]

1. jQuery is one of the most important javascript libraries
2. It does through providing functionality which is often needed to save us time we would need to implement it by ourself.
3. the 2 versions are the exact same in matter of its instructions. Minified is just smaller (by removing spaces and tabs and line breaks without touching the logic of the program). This helps the client’s browser to load the js file faster.

[Marie]

@ivan

• What is jQuery?
• How does it help us as developers?
• Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?

JQuery is a library of linkable pre-written coding that is necessary to build apps and webpages.

JQuery helps developers by making available coding that is widely used, thus saving time, without the need to reinvent the wheel numerous times. It also takes care of the issue of compatibility with different browsers. It makes it almost as easy as plug and play for different applications.

uncompressed version allows for the developer to see what is happening inside the code, but it is bulky.
minified takes out all the comments, white space and unnecessary characters out, making it light, and faster to download. This is the version that should be used on webpages.

[Eduardo_Carrillo]

1. Is a javascript library
2. It helps developer write less code, it helps to make video and image animatios, ajax requests dom manipulation and user interface elements.
3. Uncompressed. have all the comments, white paper, etc.
   While minified it has just the code.

[CameronW]

1. What is jQuery? jQuery is a free JavaScript library that makes it quicker and easier to build webapps
2. How does it help us as developers? It allows developers to invoke common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript to accomplish with a single line of code
3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed? The uncompressed version is able to be read nut the minimised is smaller in size and therefore quicker for visitors to download

[juanjs]

Hello everyone and anyone who reads this post.

1. What is jQuery? jQuery is a library that makes it possible to write code that may be extensive and time consuming - It is quicker and easier to write JavaScript in developing web apps.

2. How does it helps as a developer?
   Often with jQuery you can write a single line of code to achieve what it would have taken 10 -20 lines of regular JavaScript code.

3. Why do we have two versions of jQuery?
   The uncompressed JavaScript file is easy to read and modify, but it’s around 160kb in size (at the time of writing). It is very long.
   The minified JavaScript file has all comments, white space, 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.

[godi]

1. JQuery is a library of prewritten codes shared opensource.
2. It helps by saving time where a single line can replace several lines of codes.
3. 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.

[kryptokrymmenos]

1. What is jQuery?
   It is a free JavaScript library that helps build webpages and web apps.

2. How does it help us as developers?
   You can write a single line of code to achieve something that would have taken multiple lines.

3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
   Uncompressed - it is easy to read and modify
   minified - removes comments, whitespace, and unnecessary characters. This is what you would place on your site for quicker download.

[Maia]

1. jQuery is a library used to build JavaScript webpages and web apps. jQuery library makes possible to write a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JavaScript code. jQuery is itself written in JavaScript, and comes in the form of a single .js file that you link to from your webpage.
2. It makes the process of programming quicker and easier for the developers. Also, jQuery lets you easily write cross-browser JavaScript code.
3. The minified version has the whole library squeezed into a 23kb with easy download on site and it is not easily read. The uncompressed version is easy to read and modify. However, it has a bigger size around 160kb, it has all comments, white space, and other unnecessary characters.

[Daniel.P]

1. What is jQuery?

jQuery is a very large JavaScript library, it is so popular that companies
like Microsoft and Twitter use it. jQuery makes it a lot more simple to code that often with jQuery you can write a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 20-30 lines of code before.

2. How does it help us as developers?

jQuery allows you to easily manipulate the DOM, you can reuse code that is already made and much more efficient than what you could make yourself.

3. 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.
The minified .js file has all comments, whitespace, and other unnecessary characters
removed from the file, squeezing the whole library into a mere 23kb.

[Andres83]

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?
   It helps developers because they don´t have to rewrite existing code and it helps by making it easy to write JavaScript that works on many different browsers.

3. 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.
• 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.

[WhitneyPaterson]

1. What is jQuery?
   Free JavaScript library

2. How does it help us as developers?
   Write JavaScript apps using fewer lines of code, easily write cross-browser JavaScript code are some ways jQuery helps developers.

3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
   The uncompressed version is easier to read and modify when developing. The minified version is used in production since the file is smaller and quicker for visitors to download.

[Avinash_Chulani]

1. jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps.

2. jQuery makes it easy to write powerful JavaScript apps and adds more functionality to a program.

3. Uncompressed.js - easy to read and modify bigger file size. Minified.js - has all comments whitespace and other unnecesary characters removed making the file very small(easier to dwnld), downside is can’t easily read the code.

[Melshman]

1. JQuery is a free library with useful JS functions I can use in my own code. It even takes care of browser compatibility for me!

2. It helps us because it gives us a bunch of completed functionality that we didn’t have to break our brains developing ourselves.

3. The larger file is meant for us to develop with because it has lots of good comments about the code we’re using. The smaller version is the version we’ll want in our production so the end user doesn’t have to DL a larger file with extraneous content. (End users don’t need the comments, which make up most of the file’s size).

[VBence99]

1.) JQuery is a library (a .js file), containing a pre-developed solution for many problems that you can be met with during coding.
2.) It’s open source, so you can just reuse any part of the code, making you more efficient, since you won’t have to stop and think about solving every little problem.
3.) The uncompressed file is useful when you try to understand or modify the library to create something. The minified version comes in handy during actual use when you’ve already figured out everything because it’s a lot harder to read and understand, but easier to load due to it’s file size.

[Kodevasse]

1. What is jQuery?**
   “The Write Less, Do More JavaScript Library”. jQuery is a Javascript library that gives you access to a range of functions to accomplish many things, which would otherwise take a lot more lines of code to do.

2. How does it help us as developers?**
   Use functions allready tested and made so you can focus on developing yopur core product better and faster.

3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?**
   Uncompressed Is good for beginners, alot of descriptions and explanation added to the files, its a larger files, thats why it will effect you to longer loading time.
   Minified is mostly the function liberary, better to use in your finished product, or for user that has alot of experience. It will increase speed of loading

[KK_Cheah]

1. What is jQuery?
   A JavaScript Library that has collection of codes for users to reuse

2. How does it help us as developers?
   It has many codes that have been developed by other users to reduce the amount of time needed to produce a JavaScript app and is laden with commonly used codes to produce animation, XML(Ajax request, manipulating DOM, creating image slideshows, interfaces, making forms more powerful via client-side form validation, pulling data from server side and etc. it also helps with browser compatibility.

3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
   the minified version which removes the comments, white spaces and unnecessary characters is meant for site implementation as it is smaller in size and hence, loads faster in the script than the uncompressed version whereas the uncompressed version is meant more for readability and maintenance as it is easier to read and modify

[Renz]

1. jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript web pages and web apps.

2. Often with jQuery you can write a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JavaScript code. 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. The uncompressed .js file is easy to read and modify, but it’s around 160kb in size. 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.

[Brett_Gallinger_II]

1. What is jQuery?
   A free javascript library.

2. How does it help us as developers?
   Can reuse code that someone else has already written, saving time and effort.

3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
   The library gets loaded on-the-fly from the webserver, so a minified version was created to make the file smaller to download faster.

[unwise_guy]

JQuery for javascript, is a library that allows you to have access to 100’s of different functions that you can import to your own projects for free.

jQuery is very useful as it allows developers to re use various code/functions that have already been created. This reduces the work load and and makes building a project a lot easier.

minified jQuery reduces the file size to increase the speed and efficiency of the implemented code. This results in a smoother user experience.

uncompressed is the full size of the file. It is easier to read and modify but is not ideal from a users perspective.

[Saula_Atama]

1. What is jQuery?
   Is a Database of code or pretty much a library for code, instead of building up to code from scratch you could write in 1 line of code.

2. How does it help us as developers?
   It’s a database where there’s code that saves a developer a lot of time where code is easily accessed.

3. Why do we have 2 versions of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
   A minified version has all the nitty-gritty details of might affect the output of the code like example white space and all the commas and the semicolon. uncompressed is much easier to read version where the finer details are excluded.