jQuery vs javascript

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I recently stumbled upon some javascript forums  sadly  link is lost somewhere in the universe   where you could feel real hate against jQuery for not being    any good  Most arguments seem to make sense actually  Now  I really like jQuery  mostly for letting me concentrate on things I want to do rather on browser inconsistencies and it actually makes AJAXing with cool  or overused   effects fun  But if really is something rotten in the core of jQuery  I don t want to rely on it the way I actually    rely on it  I don t want to start yet another argument over which framework is the best    but    Which framework is the best  joke   As a case usage  think about small to medium web and it s administration  I m just trying to figure out  if stuff in some framework or pure javascript with few mine functions really makes difference  Edit  I actually tried to have a normal objective discusssion over pros and cons of   Using a framework over pure javascript and jQuery vs  others   Since jQuery seems to be easiest to work with with the quickest learning curve  However  some people just don t understand it and think that I m starting yet another flame  what I am not   I am actually voting to reopen this question  Also I m really interested in   Does jQuery heavily rely on browser sniffing  Could that be a potential problem in the future  Why  I found plenty JS-selector engines  are there any AJAX and FX libraries  Is there any reason  besides browser sniffing and personal  quot hate quot  against John Resig  why jQuery is wrong   jQuery actually  as most used  stands for other frameworks also

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Jquery VS javascript  I am completely against the OP in this question  Comparison happens with two similar things  not in such case   Jquery is Javascript  A javascript library to reduce vague coding  collection commonly used javascript functions which has proven to help in efficient and fast coding   Javascript is the source  the actual scripts that browser responds to

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Jquery like any other good JavaScript frameworks supplies you with functionality independent of browser platform wrapping all the intricacies  which you may not care about or don t want to care about   I think using a framework is better instead of using pure JavaScript and doing all the stuff from scratch  unless you usage is very limited   I definitely recommend JQuery   Thanks

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I actually tried to had a normal objective discusssion over pros and   cons of 1   using framework over pure javascript and 2   jquery vs    others  since jQuery seems to be easiest to work with with quickest   learning curve     Using any framework because you don t want to actually learn the underlying language is absolutely wrong not only for JavaScript  but for any other programming language       Is there any reason  besides browser sniffing and personal  hate    against John Resig  why jQuery is wrong     Most of the hate agains it comes from the exaggerated fanboyism which pollutes forums with  use jQuery  as an answer for every single JavaScript question and the overuse which produces code in which simple statements such as declaring a variable are done through library calls   Nevertheless  there are also some legit technical issues such as the shared guilt in producing illegible code and overhead  Of course those two are aggravated by the lack of developer proficiency rather than the library itself

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Personally i think you should learn the hard way first  It will make you a better programmer and you will be able to solve that one of a kind issue when it comes up  After you can do it with pure JavaScript then using jQuery to speed up development is just an added bonus    If you can do it the hard way then you can do it the easy way  it doesn t work the other way around  That applies to any programming paradigm

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It s all about performance and development speed  Of course  if you are a good programmer and design something that is really tailored to your needs  you might achieve better performance than if you had used a Javascript framework  But do you have the time to do it all by yourself   My personal opinion is that Javascript is incredibly useful and overused  but that if you really need it  a framework is the way to go   Now comes the choice of the framework  For what benchmarks are worth  you can find one at http   ejohn org files 142    It also depends on which plugins are available and what you intend to do with them  I started using jQuery because it seemed to be maintained and well featured  even though it wasn t the fastest at that moment  I do not regret it but I didn t test anything else since then

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Does jQuery heavily rely on browser sniffing  Could be that potential problem in future   Why    No - there is the   browser method  but it s deprecated and isn t used in the core    I found plenty JS-selector engines  are there any AJAX and FX libraries    Loads  jQuery is often chosen because it does AJAX and animations well  and is easily extensible  jQuery doesn t use it s own selector engine  it uses Sizzle  an incredibly fast selector engine    Is there any reason  besides browser sniffing and personal  hate  against John Resig  why jQuery is wrong    No - it s quick  relatively small and easy to extend   For me personally it s nice to know that as browsers include more stuff  classlist API for example  that jQuery will update to include it  meaning that my code runs as fast as possible all the time   Read through the source if you are interested  http   code jquery com jquery-1 4 3 js - you ll see that features are added based on the best case first  and gradually backported to legacy browsers - for example  a section of the parseJSON method from 1 4 3   return window JSON  amp  amp  window JSON parse       window JSON parse  data          new Function  return     data        As you can see  if window JSON exists  the browser uses the native JSON parser  if not  then it avoids using eval  because otherwise minfiers won t minify this bit  and sets up a function that returns the data  This idea of assuming modern techniques first  then degrading to older methods is used throughout meaning that new browsers get to use all the whizz bang features without sacrificing legacy compatibility

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