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Miroidan
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Curious about jQuery

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Out of curiosity, I believe there are some users here that have atleast some basic and/or intermediate knowledge about jQuery.

My question is, what are really the benefits, pros and cons of using jQuery? Let's say I'd want to create a platformer and chose to use jQuery, is it a good or a bad choice?
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Re: Curious about jQuery

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JQuery is not a game engine. It is more of a framework to make using javascript easier.
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hallsofvallhalla wrote:JQuery is not a game engine. It is more of a framework to make using javascript easier.
Thanks, I found later on that it was a powerful library to support JavaScript. I'm currently learning JavaScript and switched over to jQuery, following a book.
I like it so far :)
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Re: Curious about jQuery

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jQuery makes a lot of JavaScript functionalities more easy.

And if you are looking towards building some games,
there is a 'project' called gameQuery that is a jQuery based 'game engine' or something.

http://gamequeryjs.com/

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I would use node.js instead of jQuery for a game like that.
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Re: Curious about jQuery

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I do not recommend GameQuery. There are so many better engines.
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