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What is jQuery?

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
jQuery is a tool in the Javascript UI Libraries category of a tech stack.
jQuery is an open source tool with 59.3K GitHub stars and 20.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to jQuery's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses jQuery?

Companies
108655 companies reportedly use jQuery in their tech stacks, including Uber, Twitter, and Udemy.

Developers
78833 developers on StackShare have stated that they use jQuery.

jQuery Integrations

fancybox, Auth0, Bugsnag, Cloudinary, and phpMyAdmin are some of the popular tools that integrate with jQuery. Here's a list of all 43 tools that integrate with jQuery.
Pros of jQuery
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Cross-browser
957
Dom manipulation
809
Power
660
Open source
610
Plugins
459
Easy
395
Popular
350
Feature-rich
281
Html5
227
Light weight
93
Simple
84
Great community
79
CSS3 Compliant
69
Mobile friendly
67
Fast
43
Intuitive
42
Swiss Army knife for webdev
35
Huge Community
11
Easy to learn
4
Clean code
3
Because of Ajax request :)
2
Powerful
2
Nice
2
Just awesome
2
Used everywhere
1
Improves productivity
1
Javascript
1
Easy Setup
1
Open Source, Simple, Easy Setup
1
It Just Works
1
Industry acceptance
1
Allows great manipulation of HTML and CSS
1
Widely Used
1
I love jQuery
Decisions about jQuery

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose jQuery in their tech stack.

Htet Lin
Analysis Programmer at St Luke's Hospital · | 3 upvotes · 15.8K views
Needs advice
on
BootstrapBootstrap
and
jQueryjQuery

Any suggestions for non-vulnerable versions of Bootstrap and jQuery. Currently using the Bootstrap v3.3.7 and jQuery v1.10.2 and jQuery UI - v1.10.1 - 2013-02-28. After finishing the penetration test, they recommend upgrading the libraries to non-vulnerable versions. Please advise which version should I upgrade to Bootstrap and JQuery. Thanks.

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Needs advice
on
DjangoDjangoLaravelLaravel
and
SpringSpring

Hi all. I want to rewrite my system. I was a complete newbie 4 years ago and have developed a comprehensive business / finance web application that has been running successfully for 3 years (I am a business person and not a developer primarily although it seems I have become a developer). Front-end is written in native PHP (no framework) and jQuery with backend and where many processes run in MySQL. Hosted on Linux and also sends emails with attachments etc. The system logic is great and the business has grown and the system is creaking and needs to be modernised. I feel I would stick with MySql as DB and update / use Django / Spring or Laravel (because its php which I understand). To me, PHP feels old fashioned. I don't mind learning new things and also I want to set the system up that it can be easily migrated to Android/iOS app with SQLite. I would probably employ an experienced developer while also doing some myself. Please provide advice -- from my research it seems Spring/Java is the way to go ... not sure. Thanks

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Sujith Kattathara Bhaskaran

Heroku is unable to handle payment issues arising due to Indian Reserve Bank's decision to stop recurring card payments. I am using the following Heroku services:

  1. Web Dyno
  2. Worker Dyno (Scheduler)
  3. Cron To Go (Queue)
  4. ClearDB (MySQL)
  5. Heroku Redis (Queue Driver)

I have to migrate my Apache/ PHP/ Laravel/ HTML/ CSS/ jQuery/ MySQL application hosted on Heroku to a new provider. My current options visible are:

  1. AWS Fargate
  2. AWS Beanstalk
  3. Quovery
  4. Microsoft Azure
  5. Laravel Vapor
  6. Laravel Forge

Does anyone have any guidance on which of the above options (or any other option not identified above) is recommended for migrating away from Heroku? and why?

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Hello everyone, I'm in my last year at college and I've been self-studying web development for maybe a year. I learned Html, CSS, Bootstrap, and JavaScript, and jQuery basics, then I started to learn ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core 3 bc this is what I really care about (backend development). I watched many tutorials and I built some small projects on my own but I know this is not just it to get a good job.. so I'm stuck now.. what should I do in the upcoming months till I graduate? I don't know how to work with a team or to work on a separate part of a big real project, deployment, and testing, and so on.. when to tell I'm ready to do interviews and get a good job?

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Needs advice
on
DenoDenoFaunaFauna
and
SvelteSvelte
at

I run a music-based website (eatnoise.com) which was built ~ 7 years ago. It was built using the jQuery framework, using PHP and MySQL in the backend. The site wasn't successful business-wise, so the site is more or less dormant. Now, I am learning web development myself via structured, online tutorials from Udemy. After working as a band-booker for several years, I want to pivot the site to include band-booking and ticketing features. I have two options: Engage the web developers who built the site initially and pay them to make the upgrades, even though there are improved technologies that have come onto the market since to increase performance, security, and SEO, OR build the site myself to my specifications using technology clearly on the ascendant. The first option means I get to market much quicker, albeit the technology will be redundant sooner and comes at a performance cost. The second option means it could be a year before I am proficient enough at coding to build the product myself and would take months to build, but I have the latest in technology to make a good PWA, but I'd be able to debug and make changes to the site myself. I'm looking for the advice of experienced developers who might be able to suggest the best way forward.

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Adan van Dijk
designer, programmer at Downdijk · | 10 upvotes · 25.6K views
Needs advice
on
JavaScriptJavaScriptjQueryjQuery
and
ReactReact

I use jQuery at the moment because I use it for a lot of years already, but now Bootstrap 5 decided to switch to JavaScript, I am thinking of switching to an alternative.

I use jQuery only for the DOM integration, animations and ajax calls because JavaScript calls to a class looks such a long call. I like the way of jQuery with $(document).on('click','.something',function() {});

By the way, I like to keep using HTML, PHP and Bootstrap as I do now.

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jQuery Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to jQuery?
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
jQuery Mobile
jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive web sites and apps that are accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.
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jQuery's Followers
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