Is the “jQuery programming style” a kind of Reactive programming?

Posted by Peter Krauss on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Peter Krauss
Published on 2013-07-02T12:26:15Z Indexed on 2013/07/02 17:14 UTC
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jQuery is a Javascript library and framework, but when we are programming with jQuery into DOM problems/solutions, we can practice a style quite different of programming... We can read about jQuery at Wikipedia,

The set of jQuery core features — DOM element selections, traversal and manipulation —, enabled by its selector engine (...), created a new "programming style", fusing algorithms and DOM-data-structures

This question is similar to the "subquestion-3" of this question but not so generic. The focus here is about this new kind of "programming style"... So, the question:

Is the "jQuery programming style in DOM context" a new paradign? Or it is more one example of reactive programming (not "cell-oriented" but "DOM-node oriented") or another one?


We have no "standard taxonomy of paradigms", so, please, in your answer, indicate also your "best choice for Wikipedia Paradign".

Example: if you understand that "jQuery programming DOM" is like "awk filtering data", your choice can be event-driven.

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