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JavaScript AJAX Basics AJAX Concepts Introducing AJAX

Posted by James Croxford
James Croxford
12,723 Points

How important is it to have covered the jQuery Basics course to under the AJAX Basics course?

As part of the course prerequisites, Dave recommends knowing a little of jQuery. I'm following the Full Stack JavaScript track currently, so I'm yet to come across jQuery.

There's no actual link to a jQuery course (maybe the one it originally linked to was retired?) so would this jQuery be a worthwhile 3 hour detour before coming back to this course?

Treehouse jQuery Basics

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

While "fetch" is becoming increasing popular for AJAX, jQuery still has some features that make it very handy, particularly in resolving certain CORS access issues. It's also the foundation for many popular web frameworks. I personally consider it worth knowing, most certainly if there's any chance you might need to work on legacy code.

But you might not need to divert from your current course. Do that only if you find yourself getting stuck because of jQuery references.