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Re: Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

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Post by tjons »

labster wrote: post #14
darrelld wrote: post #3

jQuery might not be the fancy new hotness on the block, but it still works and is still used. I get the feeling more and more that developers are embarrassed about using it, similar to how some devs are embarrassed about using PHP, yet it's still a workhorse.

PHP should be significantly more embarrassing than jQuery. The jQuery interface is well designed and reliable. The fact that it still works is important. As long as I've got clients asking for IE 8 support, jQuery's going to be in my toolbox. And probably even after.

Ouch. PHP dev here. We write design-pattern-influenced code with classes, abstract classes, DI, interfaces, etc. It's not all bad.

Re: Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

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Post by markplindsay »

labster wrote: post #14
darrelld wrote: post #3

jQuery might not be the fancy new hotness on the block, but it still works and is still used. I get the feeling more and more that developers are embarrassed about using it, similar to how some devs are embarrassed about using PHP, yet it's still a workhorse.

PHP should be significantly more embarrassing than jQuery. The jQuery interface is well designed and reliable. The fact that it still works is important. As long as I've got clients asking for IE 8 support, jQuery's going to be in my toolbox. And probably even after.

React (plus a couple shims) works great with IE8 up until v15.

Re: Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

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Post by aggronn »

tomcam wrote: post #13

Do you know a better library for support of a wide array of browsers going back many years, with a huge log of support issues and test cases behind it?

jQuery doesn't officially support IE 8 and earlier, or any other browser older than "current - 1". React supports at least the same as jQuery.

Re: Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

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Post by marcosdumay »

toadkicker wrote: post #15
darrelld wrote: post #3

jQuery might not be the fancy new hotness on the block, but it still works and is still used. I get the feeling more and more that developers are embarrassed about using it, similar to how some devs are embarrassed about using PHP, yet it's still a workhorse.

It's really silly that is how the culture behaves. The right tool for the job is a common moniker in other industries, yet in ours its the source of heated debate and hipsterdom.

PHP is some tool that was never really good, but had some compelling features that no other tools provided. Except that now there are better tools for any task it solved, excluding the task of "maintaining a PHP codebase".

If you are starting a new project on it, you should indeed feel silly.

Re: Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

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Post by colordrops »

smegel wrote: post #23
british_india wrote: post #20

Every other framework relies on JQuery so--yes, absolutely--it's still a thing. And if you don't work for a company that is in the JavaScript-framework-of-the-month mode, you should know JQuery is still king.

They do? React, Angular, etc?

Angular 1 and Polymer 1 have a limited version of jquery integrated into the stack. Don't know about React, Angular 2, or Polymer 2 though.

Re: Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

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Post by trose »

smegel wrote: post #23
british_india wrote: post #20

Every other framework relies on JQuery so--yes, absolutely--it's still a thing. And if you don't work for a company that is in the JavaScript-framework-of-the-month mode, you should know JQuery is still king.

They do? React, Angular, etc?

yes, Angular requires jquery for selectors. React I'm pretty sure doesn't.

Re: Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

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Post by newbear »

erikb wrote: post #11

Very simple and as always it depends on what you want. You want to do the cool new thing? Then use one of the younger frameworks but expect things to be slow, buggy, and ungooglable. If you want to make money wiht little effort then use the older frameworks that survived (e.g. jquery).

How does one make money? Help please
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