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jQuery vs jQuery Mobile: What are the differences?

jQuery is a versatile JavaScript library designed to be used in web development to enhance user interactivity and responsiveness. jQuery Mobile, on the other hand, is a framework specifically tailored for building mobile web applications. Let's explore the key differences between them.

  1. Purpose: jQuery is a fast and small JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversal, event handling, and animation, while jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework for creating mobile apps and responsive websites.

  2. Target Devices: jQuery is designed to work across different browsers and support desktop and mobile devices, while jQuery Mobile is specifically designed for mobile devices and provides a user interface that is optimized for touch-based interactions.

  3. UI Components: jQuery provides built-in methods and functions to manipulate HTML elements, while jQuery Mobile offers a set of pre-designed UI components such as buttons, forms, panels, and navigation bars that are optimized for mobile devices.

  4. Theme Customization: jQuery does not have a built-in theme system, while jQuery Mobile provides a theming framework that allows developers to easily customize the appearance and style of their mobile apps or websites.

  5. Page Structure: In jQuery, the structure of web pages is typically built using HTML markup directly, while jQuery Mobile follows a specific page structure and uses a system of data attributes to enhance and manage the content and behavior of each page.

  6. Performance Optimization: jQuery is focused on providing fast and efficient DOM manipulation, event handling, and animation, while jQuery Mobile incorporates additional optimizations specifically designed for mobile devices, such as lazy loading, AJAX-based page navigation, and responsive layouts.

In summary, jQuery is a general-purpose library used for various web development tasks, while jQuery Mobile is specialized for mobile application development, offering features and components specifically optimized for touch-based interfaces. While jQuery simplifies web development in general, jQuery Mobile streamlines the creation of mobile-friendly web applications by providing ready-to-use components and layouts tailored for mobile devices.

Decisions about jQuery and jQuery Mobile
Malek Boubakri
Web developer at Quicktext · | 0 upvote · 221.1K views

The project is a web gadget previously made using vanilla script and JQuery, It is a part of the "Quicktext" platform and offers an in-app live & customizable messaging widget. We made that remake with React eco-system and Typescript and we're so far happy with results. We gained tons of TS features, React scaling & re-usabilities capabilities and much more!

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kazi shahin
CTO at Blubird Interactive Ltd. · | 3 upvotes · 106.1K views

I've an eCommerce platform building using Laravel, MySQL and jQuery. It's working good and if anyone become interested, I just deploy the entire source cod e in environment / Hosting. This is not a good model of course. Because everyone ask for small or large amount of change and I had to do this. Imagine when there will be 100 separate deploy and I had to manage 100 separate source. So How do I make my system architecture so that I'll have a core / base source code. To make any any change / update on specific deployment, it will be theme / plugin / extension based . Also if I introduce an API layer then I could handle the Web, Mobile App and POS as well ? Is the API should be part of source code or a individual single API and all the deployment will use that API ?

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Manatsawin Hanmongkolchai
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When I started TipMe, I thought about using React frontend. At the end, plain, simple jQuery won.

I had to build this iteration of the site fast and by using jQuery I could keep using Django as a full stack development tool. One important point is Django form (combined with Django Bootstrap3) means that I don't have to reinvent form rendering again, which will be the case with React.

Over time, more interactivity seeped into the site and React components start making its way into the codebase.

I now wish the site is built using React so that I could add more user friendly interfaces easier (no more fuddling with server states) but I would still say jQuery helped me get past those early days.

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Pros of jQuery
Pros of jQuery Mobile
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    Cross-browser
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    Dom manipulation
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    Power
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    Open source
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    Plugins
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    Easy
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    Popular
  • 350
    Feature-rich
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    Html5
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    Light weight
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    Simple
  • 84
    Great community
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    CSS3 Compliant
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    Mobile friendly
  • 67
    Fast
  • 43
    Intuitive
  • 42
    Swiss Army knife for webdev
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    Huge Community
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    Easy to learn
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    Clean code
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    Because of Ajax request :)
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    Powerful
  • 2
    Nice
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    Just awesome
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    Used everywhere
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    Improves productivity
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    Javascript
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    Easy Setup
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    Open Source, Simple, Easy Setup
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    It Just Works
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    Industry acceptance
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    Allows great manipulation of HTML and CSS
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    Widely Used
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    Cons of jQuery
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      Large size
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      Sometimes inconsistent API
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      Encourages DOM as primary data source
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      Live events is overly complex feature
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      What is jQuery?

      jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

      What is 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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