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    This document introduces jQuery, a JavaScript library that makes front-end development easier. It discusses why full-stack developers learn both front-end and back-end technologies. jQuery simplifies working with DOM elements across browsers. The document recommends learning jQuery basics through online tutorials before more advanced frameworks. It emphasizes mastering jQuery first to understand how DOM works behind frameworks like Angular and React.

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    jQuery Tutorials By: Mosh Hamedani

    Why you need to learn jQuery


    While ASP.NET MVC is a server-side (or back-end) web framework, as an ASP.NET
    MVC developer, there quite a few occasions where you need to work with various client-
    side (or front-end) technologies. If you only know the server-side, you’re considered a
    back-end developer, but if you know both the front-end and the back-end, you’re referred
    to as a full-stack developer.

    Full-stack development, obviously, requires learning more stuff but that will also boost
    your salary, compared to a back-end or front-end only developer.

    What is jQuery anyway?


    jQuery is a Javascript library that allows us to work with objects in an HTML document.
    The HTML markup we use to build a web page, is eventually loaded into a tree of
    objects called Document Object Model (or DOM). In front-end development, we need
    to look for certain elements in the DOM and show/hide them based on some condition.
    This is just one simple example, but there are many more complex tasks that requires
    traversing and modifying DOM elements.

    We can use pure Javascript to work with these DOM, but this requires extra effort to deal
    with inconsistencies of various browsers. Each browser, exposes a client-side API to
    work with these DOM elements and sometimes these APIs are not consistent in their
    contract and implementation. This applies specifically to Internet Explorer, which has
    always been like a browser made in another planet!

    So, jQuery was released to address this issue. jQuery is a Javascript library that
    provides a simple and unified API to work with with the DOM, no matter what browser
    the client-side app is running in.

    So, jQuery is just a Javascript library and is not a programming language.

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    jQuery Tutorials By: Mosh Hamedani

    How to learn jQuery?


    Ideally, you may want to take a course or read a book. But you can also get the basics
    from this tutorial:

    http://www.impressivewebs.com/jquery-tutorial-for-beginners/

    Now, before you get started, I just let you know that in this course, we’ll have only a few
    lectures using jQuery. If you get stuck following the next few videos, don’t get
    disappointed. I can guarantee that once you go through them one more time and think of
    the materials in these tutorials, you’ll have a reasonable understanding of how
    everything works. So, don’t get stuck, just code along with me and complete these
    features.

    Ok, what after jQuery?


    While jQuery has had a great impact on the development of client-side apps, it has been
    criticised for resulting in spaghetti and untestable Javascript code. So, different libraries
    have been developed that allows us to work with DOM while giving us a framework to
    write modular and testable Javascript code. Angular and React are two popular
    examples of such frameworks.

    But before studying any of such frameworks, you need to master jQuery because this
    will give you better understanding of how DOM works. If you fast forward to Angular, you
    may be able to get a few things done, but you won’t have an understanding of how
    things are happening behind the scene.

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