What are the pros and cons of using jquery in mobile development?

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I’m starting in hybrid development using Cordova (with visual studio) and in my research on javascript frameworks, I have found many people using Angularjs, and I was surprised that I can’t find anyone who uses and recommends Jquery (not Jquery Mobile). Why not use ? There is a why ?

  • Hello, I can’t tell because you haven’t seen any mobile APP with jQuery but I already.... and well used more there are several others that end up depending on the programmer choose which one finds easier. I am now using the Google framework (;D) http://materializecss.com/about.html I recommend using jQuery mobile to make app or this one above.

  • Hello Felipe, actually there are several apps that use jQuery, however not as data Binding, my question had been bad explained, sanei my doubts about Binding, and today I’m using Brazilian for such, however, still use jQuery, even because I’m using materialize css too, and it’s impossible without the same.

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This page recommends not using jQuery because it is a heavy library, and even jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile versions have poor performance, with jQuery Mobile in particular imposing a lot of rigidity.

This page provides some reasons why you shouldn’t use jQuery Mobile (which has jQuery as a dependency) on mobile apps, including being heavy, low performing, poorly documented and having a lot of bugs, and according to the website the reason is because jQM is aimed at mobile websites and not applications. In the comments section some disagree with this non-recommendation.

I also remember reading something about jQuery handling events click and not of touch, which would be the most suitable in mobile apps. Clicks have a delay of 300 milliseconds, which greatly impairs the responsiveness of the application.

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