Summary
As emphatic as it might sound, knowing how to use JavaScript is a necessary skill today. However, you probably don’t have to learn all the nitty-gritty details of the language to write good production code. This is because of the availability of powerful libraries such as jQuery.
jQuery delivers a number of benefits. In the first place, it makes JavaScript code easier and quicker to write. The library provides helper functions that dramatically increase your productivity while decreasing frustration. In addition, the resulting code is much easier to read (which greatly simplifies maintenance) and robust, because the higher level of abstraction hides a number of checks and error-handling procedures.
In a world of Web programming that is moving ...
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