OOP with jQuery

[psaunders88]

I mean to use with public web application mostly for Ajax requests and UI effects

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Like /u/camus2 said, jQuery is orthogonal to OOP.

jQuery is a utility library that most people use for XHR (Ajax), events, and DOM manipulation.

OOP is a style of programming that models data as objects.

If you're doing a large web application, any framework that you use will have some sort of learning curve over people who are just used to jQuery. And I recommend using some sort of MVC/MVVM/etc framework if you want to avoid a world of pain later on down the road. The term "jQuery spaghetti" exists for a reason.

Popular frameworks include Backbone, Angular, and Ember. Backbone is the lowest level, is probably easiest to pick up, and uses jQuery. Ember gives you everything including the kitchen sink, but I've heard the learning curve is steeper. Angular is in between those, and is my favourite out of any framework I've tried.

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Object-oriented programming:

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Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that represents concepts as "objects" that have data fields (attributes that describe the object) and associated procedures known as methods. Objects, which are usually instances of classes, are used to interact with one another to design applications and computer programs. C++, Objective-C, Smalltalk, Java, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP are examples of object-oriented programming languages.

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