Benchmark: vanilla vs jquery tests

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="test-wrapper">
<div class="test"></div>
</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

add class - vanilla
document.querySelector(".test").classList.add("test-class");
add class - jquery
$(document).find(".test").addClass("test");
get element by class - vanilla
document.querySelector(".test");
get element by class - jquery
$(document).find(".test");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
add class - vanilla
add class - jquery
get element by class - vanilla
get element by class - jquery

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 70 on Mac OS X 10.13.6

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Test name	Executions per second
add class - vanilla	1001320.1 Ops/sec
add class - jquery	149642.5 Ops/sec
get element by class - vanilla	2961467.0 Ops/sec
get element by class - jquery	280952.4 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 months ago):

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Let's break down the provided benchmark and explain what's being tested.

**Benchmark Definition**

The benchmark is comparing the performance of vanilla JavaScript (without any external libraries) versus jQuery, a popular JavaScript library. The benchmarks are focused on two specific scenarios:

1. Adding a class to an element (`add class - vanilla` and `add class - jquery`)
2. Getting an element by its class name (`get element by class - vanilla` and `get element by class - jquery`)

**Script Preparation Code**

The script preparation code includes a reference to the jQuery library, which suggests that the benchmark is running in a browser environment where jQuery is already loaded.

**Options Compared**

There are two main options being compared:

* **Vanilla JavaScript**: uses native JavaScript functions and syntax
* **jQuery**: uses the jQuery library's API to perform similar tasks

**Pros and Cons of Each Approach**

Here are some pros and cons of each approach:

* **Vanilla JavaScript**:
	+ Pros: more control over performance, no external dependencies, can be optimized for specific use cases.
	+ Cons: requires manual handling of DOM manipulation, may be slower due to lack of optimization.
* **jQuery**:
	+ Pros: provides a convenient and standardized way to manipulate the DOM, often includes built-in optimizations.
	+ Cons: adds an external dependency, may introduce overhead due to library initialization.

**Library Used**

The `$.find()` function used in the jQuery benchmarks is part of the jQuery library's API. The purpose of this function is to find an element on the page that matches a specified selector.

In vanilla JavaScript, you would use `document.querySelector()` or `document.getElementById()` instead.

**Special JS Features or Syntax**

There are no specific special features or syntax mentioned in the benchmark, so we'll focus on the general differences between vanilla JavaScript and jQuery.

**Other Alternatives**

If you need to compare the performance of other JavaScript libraries or approaches, some alternatives could include:

* **Lodash**: a utility library that provides various functions for tasks like DOM manipulation.
* **React**: a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
* **Vanilla ES6+ features**: if you want to optimize your code for modern browsers with support for newer JavaScript features.

Keep in mind that the choice of alternative libraries or approaches depends on the specific requirements and use cases of your project.

Related benchmarks:

vanilla vs jquery tests (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: add class - vanilla vs add class - jquery vs get element by class - vanilla vs get element by class - jquery

Created: 6 years ago by: Guest

Jump to the latest result

add class - vanilla

add class - jquery

get element by class - vanilla

get element by class - jquery

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 months ago):