What is jQuery?
jQuery is a ‘lightweight’ JavaScript library. When it was released back in 2006, JavaScript was not widely used. But jQuery nowadays has revolutionized the industry, by wrapping a thousand lines of JavaScript code into methods that you can call with a single line of code. We can use the phrase “write less, do more” to define jQuery.
jQuery Features:
- jQuery supports DOM manipulation.
- It also wraps a number of HTML event methods.
- We can easily use the effects and animation with jQuery.
- jQuery is a library full of different utilities.
- With jQuery, we need to write fewer number Lines of code because we can wrap up all methods in it.
What is React?
React is an open-source, declarative, efficient, and very flexible JavaScript library. This library was created by Facebook in 2011, necessarily for the purpose of building interactive UI elements.
React provides reusable library code which shortens the total development time and also shortens the scope of errors. With React js, developers can build large-scale, dynamic-looking single-page applications.
React Features:
- Developers can directly access React code snippets and components for creating specific parts of a User Interface.
- It also provides a Virtual DOM for improving the performance of the website.
- It is an open-source library.
- Developers can use the react library for addressing the UI functions.
- The React js library is growing exponentially.