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 ...
