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by bluenotebo0k 1405 days ago
Honestly I feel like jQuery is my "secret weapon" similar to how Lisp is Paul Graham's in Beating the Averages. It's so much more productive than vanilla JS with negligible impact on performance, especially with caching.
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Kiro 1405 days ago
What are you doing with jQuery that you can't easily do in vanilla JS? I understand the argument before we had querySelector, but not now.
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francisofascii 1405 days ago
JQuery is terse, which helps with productivity.

document.getElementById('id').style.display = 'none' vs $('#id').hide();

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FlyingSnake 1405 days ago
JQuery has better alternatives like Alpine.js or HTMX which are much lighter and easy to use.
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