AngularJS Vs JQuery

Expectations on web development has increased in terms of Rich UI, less coding with more functionality, easy manipulation, cross functional support, animations, easy testability features and this has been a challenging job for web developers in this digital era. Angular JS and JQuery exactly solve this purpose and are widely in use among several platforms which demand user – centric functionality.

What is AngularJS?

It is an open source web application framework developed in 2009 by Misco Hevery and Adam Abrons. It allows developers to build dynamic single page web applications (SPAs). It is a product by Search Engine Giant Google; it is a great tool for building highly rich client – side web application. It is a framework with structured approach and follows rules.

Features of AngularJS

AngularJS is rich in features that a developer can use at the best in designing a user-friendly web application. The various features of AngularJS are:

Two-way data binding
REST friendly
Unit testing
MVC based pattern
Deep linking
Angular directives as an extension to HTML
Template
Form validation
Dependency injection
Localization
Full testing environment
Server communication

A point to note is Angular JS is a Java script framework based on type script. It includes JQLite, a simplified version of JQuery.

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What is JQuery?

It is a dynamic and interactive language which uses DOM manipulation to use Java script on website in an easy way. It is a fast and rich language with great tools for creating feature – rich websites. It has in – built features like HTML document traversal, event handling, animation, AJAX (Asynchronous Java script + XML) support, etc. which helps in the easy development of the websites. JQuery is a Java script library, which gives the simple way to access and control DOM elements on the website. It was created in 2006 by John Resig.

Features of JQuery

Enriched with DOM functionality at its core, JQuery has various features as listed below:

HTML / DOM manipulation
CSS manipulation
AJAX / JSNOP support
Event handling
Effects and animations
Cross browser compatibility
Light weight

Besides, JQuery has no real structure, so developer has full freedom to build projects.

Difference between Angular JS and JQuery

S.NO	Angular JS	JQuery
1.	Supports Unit test runner	JQuery also supports unit test runner
2.	Supports Animation	Also supports animation
3.	Example for tabs <div id = “tabs”> <ul> <li><a href = “#tab-1”> TAB 1</a></li> </ul> <div id = “tab-1”> …. </div> </div>	Example for tabs <tabs> <tab title = “TAB 1”> …. </tab> </tabs>
4.	Supports AJAX / JSONP through $http module	Supports AJAX / JSONP through $. ajax() function
5.	Has RESTful API	There is no RESTful API
6.	Supports MVC pattern	Does not support any MVC pattern
7.	Angular JS has a feature called two way data binding.	JQuery does not have any such feature
8.	It supports deep linking routing	Does not support this concept
9.	The file size of Angular JS is more	The file size of JQuery is less
10.	It is a Java script tool	It is also a java script tool
11.	It supports use of animation with the help of an additional library (ngAnimate)	JQuery has direct access to the .animate() function
12.	Allows setting directives and templates to control the layout in easier way. The templates are called in a combination of HTML and Java script	Without the use of ES6 and Babble, it is difficult to add templates into JQuery
13.	It uses heavy dependency injection	There is no necessity of dependency injection
14.	Two way data binding allows direct modification of DOM which is built in directly in Angular JS	JQuery requires to write Java script to modify DOM
15.	Form validation is an added feature in Angular JS	JQuery does not offer this feature
16.	The version of Angular JS is 1.6.5 with 169KB size which is nearly double the size of JQuery	The version of JQuery is 3.2.1 with 87KB size
17.	Angular JS has better average load time, download and finish even with larger file size	JQuery has more average load time, download and finish time even with lesser file size
18.	Angular JS latest version (6.0) was released on 3^rd May 2018	JQuery latest version 3.3.1 was released as of Jan 20^th 2018
19.	It is tough to understand and is not that beginner friendly	It is easy to learn and understand
20.	Angular JS provides a first class support to create web application using Java script, CSS and HTML	JQuery provides a consistent DOM API which is consistent across all supported browsers
21.	Angular JS is bidirectional which means it models data dynamically in a way that whenever the UI field changes, the model data changes with it and vice versa	JQuery is unidirectional when it comes to binding UI elements (DOM) and codes (Java script)
22.	Angular JS is a framework	JQuery is a library used for DOM manipulation
23.	It can manage big size projects	It becomes complex and difficult to maintain when the size of the project increases
24.	There is localization in Angular JS	There is no localization in JQuery

Conclusion

JQuery is the best option when you require a flexible website, where as Angular JS offers whatever is needed to develop client’s application. To get the desired quality and an appealing website with single page application, we can opt for Angular JS. JQuery is used when in need for light weight and powerful tool. Angular JS is used if we require a full featured framework.

It is well understood that JQuery is best suited for DOM manipulation and Angular JS is best suited for Web application development. Angular JS is used to develop robust applications and to add more functionality or to perform DOM manipulation on the website we can use JQuery. Angular JS can do everything that JQuery does and even much more. It is easy to write and run unit tests in Angular JS applications. Dependency management is effortless and binding dynamic data is powerful. For building testable web applications, we can use Angular JS than JQuery.

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