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by felbane 408 days ago
Does anyone actually still use jQuery?

Everything I've built in the past like 5 years has been almost entirely pure ES6 with some helpers like jsviews.

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jQuery's still the third most used web framework, behind React and before NextJS. If you use jQuery to build Wordpress websites, you'd be specializing in popular web technologies in the year 2025.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-web-framew...

Sure, why not? It's lightweight and works well, and there's a lot of good solutions that you can find already made for you online.