Part 2. Core jQuery

Many years have passed since John Resig presented jQuery to the world. Fewer but still quite a few years are behind us since jQuery was only a library to manipulate the DOM. During this time jQuery has created an entire ecosystem around itself consisting of companion libraries and other projects such as these:

  • jQuery UI —A library consisting of a set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes to help you create amazing user interfaces
  • jQuery Mobile —An HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, to help you create beautiful designs for mobile devices
  • QUnit —A JavaScript unit-testing framework used by all the other jQuery projects
  • Plugins —The plugins published on npm ...

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