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Apr 20, 2017 · Frontend Development

Unveiling Sizzle.js: How jQuery’s Fast Selector Engine Works

This article dissects the inner workings of jQuery’s Sizzle selector engine, explaining its tokenization, compilation, matcher generation, and performance optimizations, while offering practical tips for writing faster CSS selectors in modern web development.

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Unveiling Sizzle.js: How jQuery’s Fast Selector Engine Works

Tencent IMWeb Frontend Team

Apr 18, 2017 · Frontend Development

Uncovering the Secrets of Sizzle.js: Why It Was the Fastest DOM Selector

This article dissects the Sizzle.js source code, explaining its high performance, design choices such as native API usage, right‑to‑left parsing, tokenization, and modular analysis, while showing how studying its architecture can inform modern frontend framework development.

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Uncovering the Secrets of Sizzle.js: Why It Was the Fastest DOM Selector