jQuery Project | 15,993 followers on LinkedIn. jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. jQuery was created by John Resig (http://ejohn.org) and announced at BarCampNYC on January 14th, 2006. Since then jQuery has changed the internet industry and the way developers write JavaScript.