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jiggy2011 on Feb 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: JZed.js – The functional JQuery alternative

Not exactly, jquery offers it's own API which is what makes it powerful and allows for it's method chaining, plugin system etc. A $(".className") returns a jquery object , not a DOM element.

coldtea on Feb 8, 2014 [–]

>Not exactly, jquery offers it's own API

Yes, that's the definition of a wrapper: it offers it's own API.

jiggy2011 on Feb 8, 2014 | [–]

jquery is really it's own abstraction, the jquery API allows you to interact with jquery objects which can do DOM manipulation on your behalf. This library literally returns DOM objects.

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