# Javascript and jQuery

Skill · Web Development

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/javascript-and-jquery

JavaScript is the core programming language of the web, enabling interactive and dynamic behavior in browsers, while jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that simplified DOM manipulation, event handling, and AJAX calls with a concise, cross-browser-compatible syntax. Front-end developers used jQuery heavily in the 2000s and 2010s to avoid verbose vanilla JavaScript and browser inconsistencies. Though less dominant since the rise of modern frameworks, it remains present in many legacy codebases and is still used for quick, simple scripting.

Related skills: [JavaScript](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/javascript), [CSS](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/css), [HTML](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/html), [Ajax](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/ajax)

## Open roles requiring Javascript and jQuery (0)

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