What does jQuery.fn mean?

Question

What does the fn here mean?

jQuery.fn.jquery

Answer 1

In the jQuery source code we have jQuery.fn = jQuery.prototype = {...} since jQuery.prototype is an object the value of jQuery.fn will simply be a reference to the same object that jQuery.prototype already references.

To confirm this you can check jQuery.fn === jQuery.prototype if that evaluates true (which it does) then they reference the same object