What is JQuery?

In this post, I will explain What is JQuery and Why to use JQuery in web application.

JQuery is a fast, small, cross-platform and feature-rich JavaScript library. JQuery is a JavaScript toolkit designed to simplify various tasks by writing less code. It is designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, animation, event handling, and AJAX very simple with an easy-to-use API that works on a lot of different type of browsers. The main purpose of JQuery is to provide an easy way to use JavaScript on your website to make it more interactive and attractive.

JQuery Features

• DOM manipulation
• Event handling
• AJAX Support
• Effects and Animations
• Lightweight
• Cross-Browser Support
• Latest Technology
• Extensibility through plug-ins
• CSS manipulation

Why use JQuery?

JQuery is very compact and well-written JavaScript code that increases the productivity of the developer by enabling them to achieve critical UI functionality by writing a very small amount of code.

• It is very fast and extensible
• It facilitates the developer to write UI related function codes in minimum possible lines
• It improves the performance of an application
• Browser's compatible web applications can be developed
• It uses mostly new features of new browsers