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by maxpert 152 days ago
jQuery is the last time I felt a library doing magic! Nothing has matched the feelings since then.
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Minor49er 152 days ago
Not even modern vanilla JavaScript?
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marticode 152 days ago
It's fairly close now but so much more verbose: ie document.getElementById('theID') vs $('#theID')
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majewsky 152 days ago
Nearly every time I write something in JavaScript, the first line is const $ = (selector) => document.querySelector(selector). I do not have jQuery nostalgia as much as many others here, but that particular shorthand is very useful.

For extra flavor, const $$ = (selector) => document.querySelectorAll(selector) on top.

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SahAssar 152 days ago 

    const $$ = (selector) => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(selector))
is even nicer since then you can do things like

    $$('.myclass').map(e => stuff)
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