In order to know jQuery, do I have to know JavaScript first?

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My answer is also YES and Here are the reasons in this nice article:

Learning Javascript or Simply the JS Frameworks?

Quoting main reasons from above article:

• Frameworks don’t do it all.

Whereas frameworks and code libraries often take a lot of the heavy lifting when coding up sites, they can’t do it all. If you come along and think “I need to do this” and your framework does not provide such a function, you’re stuck up a creek without one very handy paddle.

• Employment

Imagine you’ve spent 9 years working with jQuery but never took the time, for whatever reason, to fully learn Javascript. Then you see the perfect job vacancy, javascript developer at a well respected company with very good pay. You’re thinking to yourself that they HAVE to pick you, you’ve worked with javascript for so long, but when you arrive and they ask you about your knowledge of javascript, you’re in trouble.

• Easier to pick up the framework

If you’ve spent a period of time with javascript, the syntax that jQuery (and most other javascript frameworks) uses is going to be a lot easier to pick up and a lot easier to master.

• Edit the Source and Plug In!

It’s always great fun to dive into the code and edit the library to suit yourself, you can add your own functions when you find a gap in the library

It is also discussed before:

Is it a good idea to learn JavaScript before learning jQuery?

Yes. jQuery is a Javascript library. You can only use it from Javascript code, so you need to know some Javascript in order to call it.

Yes, you do. jQuery is JavaScript library.

jQuery is Javascript. So yes, to do anything usable, you need to know Javascript and understand the DOM.

No, you don't absolutely need to know javascript first; with an understanding of the DOM, you could adapt jQuery code snippets to do some simple tasks on your pages without having to know the ins-and-outs of the javascript language; but knowing javascript would certainly let you get a lot more value from jQuery and would be necessary if you wanted to do anything complicated or ambitious on the page.

"Know" is a strong word. You don't have to learn everything about javascript, but you should be familiar with it. Debugging JQuery is a real pain without javascript knowledge.

jQuery is a library developed using javascript and to effectively work with jQuery you need to know javascript first.

If you are using jQuery you will have to deal with javascript for sure and learning jquery also becomes very easy if you have some basic under standing in javascript and DOM.

w3schools is a source to learn javascript basics easily.

Yes you need to know basic javascript first before using jquery, In actual project most of the time jquery is used with the combination of core javascript, also if know know basics of javascript then it is a lot easier to understand jquery because at that time you know the internal working which is hidden by jquery most of the times.

Yes, and you should also know, what JQuery - or other frameworks - do, not just using them as a black box. Say, you should know document.getElementById(), even if you will never use it, because there is better way to do it in frameworks.