Has anyone worked with jQuery?

1    17 May 2017 10:44 by u/Plant_Boy

I'm working with a textbook, very little to no Internet for online tutorials, but some of the instructions in it are old and possibly incompatible with new systems. It is working with Apache2 and php5 and standards from 2013. I am working with Apache2 and php7. This was the first big hurdle I've had to overcome. I now have to try and install jQuery but wondering if it might now be built in to current systems. (I'm using Linux Mint:Cinnamon.)

Is there a terminal command to install jQuery and a way to test that it's working?

7 comments

1 u/SayTan 17 May 2017 10:50

tar -xvf ./stormfront/JQ

0 u/Plant_Boy [OP] 17 May 2017 11:05

So jQuery is still quite relevant to the internet, it's not been replaced?

Edit: Online literature seems to suggest that one should put it into a folder and reference that folder/file in a <script> command whenever jQuery is needed. Since I'm beginning I'm guessing it would be prudent to just host it in my localhost?

Edit2: After downloading a jquery-3.2.1.js file to localhost and altering the referencing of a script that I had found on StackOverflow to test if jQuery was working it apparently works... w00t.

1 u/speakoutforamerica 18 May 2017 02:47

I wouldn't say it is completely irrelevant now but the industry as a whole is moving to front end frameworks like ReactJS or AngularJS which don't really require JQuery as they have their own implementations of most of the things JQuery does.

0 u/Plant_Boy [OP] 18 May 2017 06:20

Do you have a preference?

1 u/speakoutforamerica 18 May 2017 12:04

Well AngularJS was kind of dominating market share then Google dipped their fingers in it and its jumped 3 version numbers in a year sooooo ReactJS(made by Facebook by the way) is starting to be seen as more stable/professional. AngularJS is still more popular I'd say.

0 u/Plant_Boy [OP] 18 May 2017 13:46

Dammit, which one of those two do I hate less... I think Google...

1 u/speakoutforamerica 18 May 2017 14:34

Well there are other non-giant tech company based javascript frameworks those are just the two most likely to get you employed.