Is learnig jquery necessary for web development?

Question

Is it worth learnig jquery for web development, should web developers need knowledge of jquery.

Answer 1

Jery is a lightweight, "write less, do more", JavaScript library. The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website. jQuery takes a lot of common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript code to accomplish.

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Answer 2

In 2019 JavaScript actually has caught up with the problems jQuery tried to solve. So I wouldnt bother with it. If you prefer the shorter syntax, just get a micro framework like OneDollar.js.

For projects involving minor JavaScript, just go with native JS. For larger projects I’d recommend adopting a frameowork such as Angular or React.

Hope this helped.

Answer 3

What do you mean by web developer? If you want to write a lot in the future, I‘d learn it.

Answer 4

Just a quick comment on Shudarshan Rai 👑 comment. jQuery is a lightweight framework, but native JS is still more performant, since that is what jQuery builds upon.

In 2019 jQuery just isnt worth it, native performs better and shorter syntax can be done with micro frameworks (15 lines of code will do the trick).