jQuery Reading Assignment

[jacobo]

1. jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps.
2. It makes it quicker and easier to build JS webpages and apps, ex.: Using jQuery to write a single line of code instead of 20+ to achieve the same result.
3. One has a much easier interface to read and modify existing code, while the other has much less clutter within code in order to shrink its downloaded storage space within a hard drive or sd.

[apmfree]

1 & 2 - Jquery is a popular javascript library that allows you to quickly create dynamic webpages and web apps. It reduces the amount of javascript coding required significantly. Plus JQuery takes care of all cross browser compatibility issues. It’s a big time saver for developers.

3 - minified version is smaller and faster loading (23kb versus 160kb). It’s recommended to use minified version of JQuery library on website to improve web page load time.

[RBeato]

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?
   JQuery is great for animations, XML requests, DOM manipulation, creating image slideshows, making drop-down menus,drag-and-drop interfaces, facilitating forms.
3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery – minified and uncompressed?
   The uncompressed is easy to read and modify but the minified, while more difficult to read, is smaller and quicker for visitors to download.

[jakerichguy]

1. Jquery is a Javascript library. Actually the largest of all of them. You can use info that others have already created so you don’t have rewrite a lot of code

2. I didn’t realize this until now but I kinda just described it: Jquery makes it easier for us developers by using info that other people have created without having to rewrite all that code

3. Well, mostly it’s because you usually can’t have everything great at the same time. One version, Uncompressed.js file is easier to read but it takes up a lot of storage but the other, Compressed.js file takes up less storage but is harder to read

[Zakzub]

@ivan

Leave your answers to the questions below in this thread. If you have any questions or you want to discuss something connected to the assignment feel free to do it in this thread as well, but please everything to the topic.

1. What is jQuery?
   jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build Javascript webpages and apps.

2. How does it help us as developers?
   jQuery helps developers save time and space in writing code. It lets developers write Javascript apps using fewer lines of code.
   .

3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
   The uncompressed version is easy to read and modify and it is bigger in size. The minifield version though, does not allow you to easily read the code but it loads faster.

[gcrypto]

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?

• Adding animated effects to elements. jQuery lets you easily add effects such as fading in/out, sliding in/out, and expanding/contracting.
• Making XML (Ajax) requests. These use JavaScript to request additional data from the Web server without having to reload the page.
• Manipulating the DOM You can easily add, remove, and reorder content in the Web page using just a couple of lines of code.
• Creating image slideshows. You can use jQuery effects to build nice animated slideshows and lightboxes.
• Making drop-down menus. jQuery makes it easy to create multi-level dropdowns with animations.
• Creating drag-and-drop interfaces. Use jQuery to build a page with elements that can be repositioned or reordered simply by dragging and dropping.
• Adding power to forms. With jQuery you can easily add complex client-side form validation, create auto-complete Ajax text fields that pull data from a server-side database, and so on.

3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery – minified and uncompressed? The uncompressed version is more human readable though it’s heavier in size while the minified version is not as easy to read but increases the webpage’s performance.

[CryptoMatrix]

1. What is jQuery?
   jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps. Often with jQuery you can write a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JavaScript code.

2. How does it help us as developers?

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

[CryptoMatrix]

1. What is jQuery?
   jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps. Often with jQuery you can write a single line of code to achieve
   what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JavaScript code.

2. How does it help us as developers?
   jQuery makes it easy to write powerful JavaScript apps and create eye-catching animated effects rivalling those of Flash movies. Amongst other things, jQuery is great for:

• jQuery lets you easily add effects such as fading in/out, sliding in/out, and expanding/contracting.
• use JavaScript to request additional data from the Web server without having to reload the page.
  Use JQuery to easily add, remove, and reorder content in the Web page using just a couple of lines of code.
  -Use jQuery effects to build nice animated slideshows and lightboxes.
• Use jQuery makes it easy to create multi-level dropdowns with animations.
• Use jQuery to build a page with elements that can be repositioned or reordered simply by dragging and droppin.
  -Use jQuery to easily add complex client-side form validation, create auto-complete Ajax text fields that pull data from a server-side database, and so on.

3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery – minified and uncompressed?
   One is called compressed version (jquery.min.js) mainly used for deployment and the other is uncompressed version (jquery.js) used for development.

[c1cag1b3]

1. Free Javascript library
2. It helps to build webpages easier. With 1 line of code you can achieve same results as with 10-20 lines of code if to build it from the scratch. It have features of adding animated effects to elements, making XML requests, manipulating the DOM, creating image slideshows, making drop-down menus, creating drag and drop interfaces and adding power to forms.
3. Uncompressed version is to made for ease of reading and understanding the code, but compressed version (without comments, whitespaces etc removed) is made for faster loading of page due to its smaller side in kbs.

[zlr1984]

What is jQuery?
jQuery is a library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript webpages and web apps. It is also the most popular JavaScript library in use today.

How does it help us as developers?
jQuery helps developers to write Javascript apps using fewer lines of code, saving time.

Why do we have 2 version of jQuery - minified and uncompressed?
The uncompressed version is easy to read and modify, but it has a much larger size. The minifield version is of much smaller size, loads much faster, but it has all comments, whitespace, and other unnecessary characters removed from the file, so it is not easy to read.

[mjbam93]

1. very popular js-library
2. code reuseability, works on every browser
3. minified is the one you place on your site because its size is smaller (23kb);
   uncompressed is the full sized (160kb) because it contains all comments, whitespace and other unnecessary charaters.

[Dennis_W]

1. What is jQuery?

It is a JS library.

2. How does it help us as developers?

To minimize the amount of code that we have to write ourselves

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

Minified .js file has had all comments, spaces and other unnecessary characters removed in order to save load time. It is only 23 kb, whereas the uncompressed .js file is easy to read but is about 160kb in size and takes longer to load.

[DHash]

1. JQuery is a library of premade javascript code that helps write things quicker and makes them more translateable.
2. JQuery helps us as developers due to the fact that it can shorten code, make it easier to translate across different browsers, as well as make it easier for others who come along later to read.
3. Uncompressed it full of notes, whitespace, and other unnecessary characters, for ease of reading and modifications. Minified is the one that is actually used most of the time, because it is much smaller in file size, so is faster to download and use.

[xRave110]

1. JQuery is a JavaScript Library.
2. Allows to reuse functionalities which are commonly used.
3. Because of sizes of this versions. If comments and all other non-functional code are not needed in order to limit the size then minified version is the better choice. Otherwise the full uncompressed version should be picked.

[MrStu]

1. What is jQuery?

2. How does it help us as developers?

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

[MrStu]

1. What is jQuery?
   It is a javascript library containing reusable code modules and functions. These very powerful elements can accomplish in a few lines of code activities that might normally require 20+lines of code. .

2. How does it help us as developers?
   It saves on development time because we aren’t ‘reinventing the wheel’ all the time. It also contains thorough documentation in order to use and test the library effectively.

3. Why do we have 2 version of jQuery – minified and uncompressed?
   The uncompressed version is easy to read and modify, however, it does take up more memory than the minified version (160kb vs 26kb approx). The minified version has all the whitespace and ‘readability’ removed. It runs faster and should be the version you eventually link to

[C.shepherd]

1. jQuery is a JavaScript library that comes in a .js file. It is code that was written by many different people to be used by anybody who wants to add similar functionality to their application.

2. With jQuery it may only take a single line of code to accomplish what would have normally taken 10-20 lines. It allows developers to build more powerful applications in less time. Also, it makes it easier to build apps that are compatible with many different browsers.

3. The uncompressed version is much more readable and easy to modify but has a larger file size. The minified version has all comments, whitespace and unnecessary characters removed from the file. This makes the file size much smaller and quicker to download, so it’s more ideal to place on your website.

[Estefano_Debernardi]

1.- It is a library that has many functions to simplify development.
2.- It helps us developers obtain access to functions like drop down menus or slides even slick flash animations - Making the process of development faster.
3.- One contains the full content of the library and the other has all the code but not the comments related, making it faster for visitors and should be the one you use.

[Marcelo]

What is jQuery?
It is a library of javascript functions that anyone can atach to its webpage.

How does it help us as developers?
By providing fast and easy acess to functions that otherwise will take hours or even days to be produced line by line.

Why do we have 2 version of jQuery – minified and uncompressed?
The first, minified is the recommended version to be put on a webpage, since its just 23kb. The uncompressed one its longer (156kbs at least), but its also easily to read.

[jCA]

1. What is jQuery?

• It’s a Javascript library.

2. How does it help us as developers?

• It helps us create powerful websites while writing fewer code.

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

• Minified code version is lighter in size, easier for browsers to download, and contains the same library without the extra whitespace and comments
• Uncompressed version is easier to read and modify and it contains all the comments and whitespace for easy readability but larger in size that the minified version.