[treflop]

I’m a big fan of React and jQuery but it sounds like you’re not using jQuery right.

All my jQuery components were self contained and you just initialized them with $(‘[data-date-picker]’).datePicker(). It is pretty obvious to anyone looking at the code that if you remove “data-date-picker”, it stopped being a date picker.

[erhaetherth]

Then you have dumb stuff like if you check a box and want some additional form fields, you have to inject a div or input into the DOM manually, and then make sure you initialize your datepicker, but maybe there will be a flash of unpickerified input if you don't do it right.

[spiderice]

I haven’t used jquery in 10 years or so, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t what you would do. You would just hide or unhide the inputs with jquery.

[Capricorn2481]

That is true, but this is built-in to React and it's optional for JQuery. I am working on legacy projects a lot and nobody ever writes JQuery like this outside of famous libraries.