I’d been hearing a lot of buzz around jQuery and how much developers like it. While I myself am not a front-end developer and …
I’d been hearing a lot of buzz around jQuery and how much developers like it. While I myself am not a front-end developer and prefer doing mostly back-end work in Java or Rail, after I saw jQuery in action at SXSWi I wanted to learn to code it in first hand.
One of the reasons I never liked coding in JavaScript is because I didn’t like it being dynamically typed language and having to deal with retrieving DOM elements based on their names and the ability for the namespace to constantly change. I also found it cumbersome to have to deal with integrating CSS and JavaScript. jQuery resolves a lot of these issues for me. jQuery is basically a JavaScript library that lets developers manipulate DOM objects as if they were POJOs, and also manipulate objects based on their CSS classes. It also has an extensive animation library giving user a richer experience.
For those out there who are new to JavaScript I highly recommend the following sequence of tutorials:
And of course you need the requisite tools to get up and running so I’d recommend downloading the lates version of FireFox and installing the Firebug plugin to help with debugging any JavaScript issues you might have.
If you want to get further into jQuery check out the main site, which includes a testing framework QUnit,
