[legitster]

jQuery is literally a requirement for Bootstrap. Most of Google's services use it implicitly.

I agree that it's largely superfluous on webapps, but I would bet a crisp $20 bill that somewhere Airbnb is running a CMS-based site somewhere that loads jQuery.

I will rely on my nailgun v. hammer analogy for this again. I understand that the big scalable web experiences are built using nailguns. But for any sort of small web project that requires just a couple of dozen lines of code, jQuery is still very much implied.

[mattmanser]

This feels like a sentiment I'd have supported in 2019, wished we're still true in 2022, and is completely outdated in 2025.

I'm a full stack who phases in and out of feontend. I'm now all in on React + MaterialUI. Even though I think they're a bit shit.

I loved jQuery. I loved doing `$(...raw html)`. But everything it did, the browsers do natively now.

You just don't really need it anymore.

[seattle_spring]

What Google services use Bootstrap? Why would they, given Google's component library is Material and their JS lib is Angular?

[streptomycin]

Bootstrap no longer requires jQuery, as of v5 from 2021. Even before then, there were popular ports of the Bootstrap JS to various other frontend frameworks such as React.