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by ericclemmons 3656 days ago
We provide 3rd party widgets to sites and originally built them all to leverage jQuery, which has been on 100% of them so far.

However, we prefer React components. Within a week, we were able to convert the jQuery widgets into React components and bundle with Preact.

What's funny is that it ended up being a smaller bundle due to complex logic it took to make jQuery render and update the DOM from existing state. (React's bread and butter)