Getting started

To get started with developing jQuery, you can download jQuery software by visiting https://jquery.com/. In the following sections, we will cover a few download links.

Installing JQuery

We can download jQuery from http://jquery.com/download/.

There are two versions of jQuery available for download: compressed and uncompressed.

To choose your option, go to the preceding link and right-click on Save as and select My Computer and download it.

jQuery 1.x

We can download the minified version from http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js.

For development, we can download the version 1.x from http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.js.

jQuery 2.x

We can download the minified version from http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.4.min.js.

For development, ...

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