JQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries on the planet (what is JavaScript). At the time of it’s inception, JavaScript (will be referred to as JS from here on in) was in a very different place. January 14th 2006 was the day when jQuery was announced at BarCampNYC. JS was still lacking somewhat — browsers all supported parts of it, but lots of hacks and workarounds had to be implemented for compliance. JQuery came along and changed everything. JQuery made it very easy to write browser compliant code. You could animated webpages without having a degree in computer…
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