John Resig released jQuery on August 26th, 2006 and changed the front-end development landscape forever. jQuery quickly arose to be the go to JavaScript framework.
A number of other libraries came out around the same time such as MooTools and Prototype but there’s a number of reasons why jQuery has surpassed them in popularity.
A number of other libraries came out around the same time such as MooTools and Prototype but there’s a number of reasons why jQuery has surpassed them in popularity.
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