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The Oppressive Magic of jQuery

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For many years, both amateur and professional web developers alike have made use of jQuery to ease the burden of bringing a library or web application to market. In a sense, jQuery has been an integral part of web development. Even at the time of writing, jQuery is referenced in the vast majority of public websites, more so than any other library, by a wide margin (see http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/javascript_library/all/y).

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    https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/javascript_library/all/y

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    http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/javascript_library/all/y

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    www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2009&month=1

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    www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox44-mozilla-firefox-has-slightly-increased.html

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    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LPaPA30bLUB_publLIMF0RlhdnPx_ePXm7oW02iiT6o/preview?sle=true#heading=h.fumxprdxo2gn

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    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/668642/is-it-a-good-idea-to-learn-javascript-before-learning-jquery

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    http://stackoverflow.com/a/841292/486979

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    http://blog.garstasio.com/you-dont-need-jquery/

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    http://blog.garstasio.com/you-dont-need-jquery/why-not/#comment-1799026169

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    www.widen.com/digital-asset-management-software/

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    https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload

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    https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/compare/82c8d5b0c383738ed84c771e90dbf202bd3acd68…55b3ca6e9f7a18fd3adc5ba7537124ae12b63e71

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    https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/326

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    Ray Nicholus

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Nicholus, R. (2016). The Oppressive Magic of jQuery. In: Beyond jQuery. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2235-5_1

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