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A Comparison of jQuery VS AngularJS

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Most of web developers might be familiar with jQuery, but not many are common with AngularJS. However, with the rise of Angular, it is important to know the differences between the two. For example, you might want to know when to use jQuery or AngularJS? How to avoid common mistake of using AngularJS in jQuery Fashion? Can we use jQuery inside or with AngularJS? You can find all of the answers here.

Definition of jQuery

jQuery is a JavaScript Library that is a lightweight and feature-rich. It helps web developers simplify the usage of client-side scripting for web applications through JavaScript. It extensively simplifies using JavaScript on a website and it’s lightweight as well as fast.

So, in general jQuery will enable you to:

  • Easily manipulate the contents of a webpage
  • Apply styles to make UI more attractive
  • Easy DOM traversal
  • Effects and animation
  • Simple to make AJAX calls and
  • Utilities and much more… etc.

As jQuery is a JavaScript Library, you can use this library to fulfill a single or many of the features it provides in our application partially/fully. For example, you can make AJAX-based calls or you can also give some effects and animations by simply using jQuery library. It works like a plugin.

Definition of AngularJS

AngularJS is one among so many Google products, it also an open source MVC-based framework which many people consider it as the best framework in its generation. So, if you wish to create a great tool for building highly rich client-side web applications, Angular is the best option for it. In fact, it is not only a JavaScript library, but also a framework that is design perfectly. This framework will lead us to follow some rules and a structures approach.

Compared to jQuery, AngularJS offers more features, such as follows:

  • Two-Way data binding
  • REST friendly
  • MVC-based pattern
  • Deep Linking
  • Template
  • Form Validation
  • Dependency Injection
  • Localization
  • Full Testing Environment
  • Server Communication

When to Use jQuery or AngularJS?

Many people think that AngularJS and jQuery share the same value of technology, but AngularJS is actually more suitable for the web application development as it can work on the HTML code and JSON data. It works in developing for interactive and robust applications but using the same for a simple website development. As a result, it produces slow loading and quite erratic websites.

On the other hand, jQuery provides a fast and feature-rich language. Moreover, it has in-built features such as HTML document traversal, event handling, manipulation, animation and Ajax support and others. Those stuffs will make you easier to develop hardcore websites. Therefore, it is necessary to frame a sound approach dedicated either to develop an advanced web application or website development before utilizing any of these highly intuitive and robust languages.

Don’t Use AngularJS in jQuery Fashion

If you love to use a huge amount of plugins, jQuery is the easier framework that you can use. However, with AngularJS, you will experience a totally different structure. This will make it more difficult for you to find any plugins or to create one. However, AngularJS has jqLite which owns the jQuery functionalities and as the result, it can be applied for developing different plugins as per the need of websites but not good for developing or patching codes of old plugins and embedding it on the website.

Code Comparison

For a developer perspective, the code comparison is as follows:

jQuery Code

AngularJS Code
<div id=”tabs”>
    <ul>
            <li><a href=”#tabs-1″>Tab 1</a><li>
            <li><a href=”#tabs-2″>Tab 2</a><li>
            <li><a href=”#tabs-3″>Tab 3</a><li>
    </ul>
    <div id=”tabs-1″>
   …
    </div>
    <div id=”tabs-2>
   …
    </div>
    <div id=”tab-3>
   …
    </div>
</div>

$(“#tabs”).tabs();

 <tabs>
        <tab title=”Tab 1″>
                …
        </tab>
        <tab title=”Tab 2″>
                …
        </tab>
        <tab title=”Tab 3″>
                …
        </tab>
</tabs>

 

Can We Use jQuery inside or With AngularJS?

In certain scenarios, we may want our AngularJS application to use jQuery library. Now, AngularJS can use jQuery in our application when the application is being bootstrapped. Otherwise, Angular will use its own implementation of the subset of jQuery that we discussed above jqLite.

Conclusion

AngularJS and JQuery are actually two technologies that are meant for different target. JQuery is best suited for DOM manipulation while AngularJS is suited for web application development.

Powerful Combination of Fabulous CSS3 and jQuery

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CSS3 and jQuery-how powerful they are

Finding the right design tools for your special needs can be troublesome sometimes, and if you are currently in this kind of situation, why don’t you try to mix several design tools that may comply your needs, we recommend you to try the mix of CSS3 and jQuery. If you are web designers who wondering about the benefits of its combination, you can find it out on the article below. Here we are starting it by explaining their definitions first.

What is CSS3

CSS3 is the latest version after CSS2, the interface designing language that offers a multitude of new ways to create an impactful web design incorporating some of the best way and highly important changes. This software has made limitless possibilities to the world. When it is first launched, CSS versions were quite large, therefore this time it is divided into smaller including: lists module, box model, hyperlink presentation, text effect, background borders and etc. If you are interested in learning them, you can find some via CSS3 website designs tutorials. CSS3 can be used as web design resources as it introduces a wide array of effective and powerful tools.

What is jQuery

Another web design resource which is part of JavaScript framework is jQuery. jQuery is created to make easier the process of using JavaScript on your website. Moreover, it also has some syntactical shortcuts that make it cannot be replaced with JavaScript. In fact, it is more like an abstraction layer. It can be said that amongst all of JavaScript tools, jQuery is the most powerful and simplest web design because of its beautiful framework.

Benefits of CSS3 and jQuery Combination

jQuery and CSS3 have been built for the intention of creating websites that are suitable on different platform and browsers, so that website will be easier to load.  Moreover, due to its independency and versatile features, both of them have become the most preferred scripts when it comes to website building.

Therefore, mixing the usage of both jQuery and CSS3 will provide you with extra benefits, such as listed below:

  • Ranking: To get a rank on various search engine platform that are highly advanced like Google, Yahoo etc., both layouts and good designs are important. The website will be readable, clear formatted and semantic. If these important factors are in place than all the content marketing or social strategies will work. Otherwise all the efforts will be drained down. Both these scripts can be read well, are compatible across a range of web browsers and often a top choice of good ranking.
  • Browsing Enhanced: Some of the features also enable to support offline browsing on your website. In fact, your website will act like an app even when offline. You readers will be able to read and browse on the go when offline and the cache feature ensure a faster and hassle free performance in such cases.
  • Platform Independency: Both the scripts offer very consistent and reliable platform independency feature and can be supported by all the major and latest releases of web browsers.
  • Cost Effective: The codes are reusable ad thus significantly decrease the cost of development and maintenance. The hybrid approach is quiet effective in today’s time.
  • Business Intelligence gets easier: It has become a lot easier, impactful and accurate with the release of latest versions. They can collate and make use of available data as well as track user’s movement.