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by krapp 865 days ago
What's changed is the billion dollar tech industry invested in convincing people that JQuery is a dead and obsolete technology.

For some reason, JQuery is the exception to the general rule of seeing a mature, battle-tested library as a sign of quality.
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Macha 865 days ago
The problem jQuery was solving was to provide a usable abstraction over an inconsistent platform for core functionality like event handling and DOM manipulation.

The point of the last decade and a half of standards work was to eliminate that problem, and it has at least moved it from "core web functionality" to more complicated areas like bluetooth, 3d rendering and audio, which jQuery's goals do not include handling.

Is it urgent to remove jQuery from projects? Not really. And it's good the jQuery team maintain the project for that reason. Certainly some projects have gotten performance gains out of removing it, but part of the work they've done in 3.x and now 4.x is arguably jQuery removing stuff internally and replacing them with the now reliable browser APIs.

But on the other hand, is there a great argument for including jQuery in new projects? This is also a "not really".

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collyw 865 days ago
It was initially sold as a way to fix browser incompatibilities, but I still use it because there are really nice plugins like select2. I really don't see the point in SPA apps for the most part. Fair enough if you have a heavily interactive frontend, but I can build an app in Django with a bit of JQuery and end up with around half the code compared to adding in React.
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gunapologist99 865 days ago
That was part of the problem that jQuery was solving.

Another part was the abysmal API that Javascript (and mostly still today) offers to work with the DOM.

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