[jay-barronville]

Serious question: Who still uses jQuery in 2023?

The last time I wrote some jQuery code was, I think, about 9 years ago. At some point, with all of the nice advancements/innovation in the frontend domain, it stopped making sense to do any of the manual DOM manipulation we used to rely heavily on jQuery for.

With the exception of legacy projects, is anyone using jQuery on new projects nowadays?

[mustardamus]

I personally don't... well I didn't until I actually used jQuery to code jQAPI V3 in two ways: 1) parse the XML from the official jQuery docs and passed it to the Astro static site generator and 2) to build the Navigation/Search. I haven't used jQuery close to a decade as well, but it was a nice feeling to just "hack away" in it :).

When the site was down for a bit, I received a couple of messages where it went, and how to bring it back. "i need jqapi online, is the blood for my code" inspired me to just do a rewrite and play around with Astro.

But yeah, wouldn't use it for new projects. Just seemed fitting to code with the actual library the documentation is about.