is javascript dead now?

[AshleyC]

Just cramming up on my ancient web skills for an interview tomorrow and it seems that jQuery has taken over from Javascript, it certainly seems a lot more sensible and easy to use! Has jQuery completely taken over from javascript then or are there still things you would use JS for? Oh and Ajax seems to have creeped in since the last time ive written any web code too but that seems pretty straightforward to use.

 

[ecoleman]

jQuery is JavaScript.

jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.

Basically it's just a library which has made it easier to do more complex tasks with JavaScript.
I still use bare JavaScript a lot, where a jQuery API call would actually be slower or simply unnecessary.

 

[dejongj]

As ecoleman says, javascript is around alive and kicking, just that there are many good application frameworks and libraries around in common use. I like angularjs as well

 

[Urban Grimshaw]

Javascript is more popular now than it ever was. Just the way we use it has changed.

jQuery is a JS library that basically makes JS easier to use, but it can be used interchangeably with whatever regular JS you know.

At the moment, jQuery is actually going out of fashion a bit (it's been around a long time now) with powerful JS frameworks such as AngularJS becoming increasingly popular.