Beyond jQuery

©  Ray Nicholus 2016

Ray Nicholus, Beyond jQuery, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2235-5_1

1. The Oppressive Magic of jQuery

Ray Nicholus¹ 

(1)Johnson Creek, Wisconsin, USA

For many years, both amateur and professional web developers alike have made use of jQuery to ease the burden of bringing a library or web application to market. In a sense, jQuery has been an integral part of web development . Even at the time of writing, jQuery is referenced in the vast majority of public websites,¹ more so than any other library, by a wide margin.

Many developers seem to consider jQuery to be a default requirement. The common thought is: if you are developing a library or a web application, you must depend on jQuery. jQuery is seen as this magical black box that solves all ...