jQuery

jQuery is a JavaScript library for DOM traversal, event handling and AJAX. It long predates the platform APIs that now cover most of what it does, and on a Shopify storefront it is usually present because a theme or an installed app brought it, not because a particular page asked for it.

Documented at https://jquery.com/.

How We've Used It

Where it is already on the page, our code uses what is there rather than loading a second stack beside it. Two gated builds do: a footer capture that posts one submission to more than one destination, and a policy-page accordion. Both are small, and both are written against the copy the theme already enqueues rather than pinning a version of their own. New sections are written against the platform's own APIs, which is a dependency decision rather than a judgment — one library fewer to keep in agreement with everything else loading on the page.

Builds Using It

No page in this batch covers a build on it yet. 2 gated builds use it; their pages follow.

Related Entities

• Handlebars
• Swiper
• Global
• Landing page

Our Role

Coexistence. Where the library is already loaded, our sections use it; we don't add it to a theme that doesn't have it.