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Asked: 2026-05-20T09:26:59+00:00

I didn’t ask how to learn JavaScript/Ajax/JQuery and god knows what else is out

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I didn’t ask how to learn JavaScript/Ajax/JQuery and god knows what else is out there! =)

I just need to know the best choice and how to start learning it for adding a desktop experience to my web application

To make it easy for you to help me guys, these are the points or criteria that I think I will need to have in the choice your going to suggest :

  • I don’t want an easy solution that will miss up my application’s stability and maintainability

  • I want something implicitly powerful but still gives you the control like writing in asp.net

  • I don’t want an asynchronous website that will back-stab my visitors’ experience with the slow browsing and lagging

Thanks for your help in advance and if I said anything that sounded non-sense to you , please excuse my ignorance with such technology =)

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Trying to think in a loud voice, how about JQuery ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The common perception of AJAX is flawed. Asynchronous just means it’s happening in the background without blocking anything else from loading. An AJAX request can load an entire page’s contents, but it certainly doesn’t have to (and most of the time it doesn’t).

    If asynchronous scripts are slower, then why are all the top web applications using them? For example, Twitter (when logged in) is a single page application. Literally EVERYTHING gets loaded asynchronously with JavaScript. It’s only slow if you write garbage code, which is why learning JavaScript properly is so important.

    jQuery will most certainly be the easiest to learn due to the huge following, good documentation, and swarms of educational resources online. Pretty much any question you could possibly have about jQuery has been answered on Stack Overflow already.

    I would recommend a few good google sessions to learn the best practices of JavaScript though. I’ve been using jQuery for a couple of years now, but just recently began learning JavaScript. It’s amazing how much sense everything will make once you learn the fundamentals of JavaScript.

    A few links to get you started:

    Also, something that has helped me out a lot is to follow the best developers. You’ll learn more lurking on conversations that you could ever believe.

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