What is Jquery?
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.
Why jquery language?
There are lots of other JavaScript frameworks out there, but jQuery seems to be the most popular, and also the most extendable.
Many of the biggest companies on the Web use jQuery, such as: Google Microsoft IBM Netflix
Advantages of Jquery
- jquery language promotes simplicity
- jquery programming elements display even when JavaScript is disabled
- jQuery easily integrates with the Visual Studio IDE
- jQuery makes animated applications just like Flash
- jQuery pages load faster
- jQuery can be SEO friendly
Disdvantages of Jquery
Functionality maybe limited
While JQuery has an impressive library in terms of quantity, depending on how much customization you require on your website, functionality maybe limited thus using raw javascript maybe inevitable in some cases.
JQuery javascript file required
The JQuery javascript file is required to run JQuery commands, while the size of this file is relatively small (25-100KB depending on server), it is still a strain on the client computer and maybe your web server as well if you intend to host the JQuery script on your own web server.