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I was surprised that for most of my smaller use cases, Zepto.js was a drop-in replacement that worked well. I do need to try the jQuery slim builds, I've never explored that.
Unbelievably, still supports IE 11 which is scheduled to be deprecated in jQuery 5.0
Even after migrating to ES modules, jQuery is still somewhat bloated. It is 27 kB (minified + gzipped) [0]. In comparison, Preact is only 4.7 kB [1]. [0]: https://bundlephobia.com/package/jquery@4.0.0 [1]: https://bundlephobia.com/package/preact@10.28.2
jQuery does a lot more though, and includes support older browsers.
Which is entirely the issue. Supporting a browser for the 10 users who will update jQuery in 2025 is insane.
Unbelievably, still supports IE 11 which is scheduled to be deprecated in jQuery 5.0
Not everybody in the world can use modern hard- and software. There are tons of school computer labs running old software
Crazy to think that software running inside IE11 should use the latest version of a library.
jQuery is the last time I felt a library doing magic! Nothing has matched the feelings since then.