jQuery v4.0 Beta
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jQuery v4.0 Beta
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Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#2In a world where many of us are actively trying to remove the last vestiges of jQuery, who is actively developing using jQuery? Genuinely curious. I’ve found that most of what I went to jQuery before is baked in now. querySelectorAll being the most powerful.
Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#3With browsers having much better support with DOM selection, why would anyone be using jQuery in 2024? Not trying to throw shade, I actually think it's cool that it's still being worked on. But I'm confused as to what the use case is.
Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#4With browsers having much better support with DOM selection, why would anyone be using jQuery in 2024? Not trying to throw shade, I actually think it's cool that it's still being worked on. But I'm confused as to what the use case is.
If I had to guess, a convenient API and a massive ecosystem.
Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#5In a world where many of us are actively trying to remove the last vestiges of jQuery, who is actively developing using jQuery? Genuinely curious. I’ve found that most of what I went to jQuery before is baked in now. querySelectorAll being the most powerful.
> who is actively developing using jQuery?
Yea same, I am actively trying to get rid of jQuery, but my guess would be people get used to working with a tool and there just isn't enough desire or a business case to get rid of it as it would require a rewrite.
I would say that I doubt new projects are starting with jQuery but I know there are devs out there that know the jQuery way better than the vanilla javascript way to get things done.
Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#6In a world where many of us are actively trying to remove the last vestiges of jQuery, who is actively developing using jQuery? Genuinely curious. I’ve found that most of what I went to jQuery before is baked in now. querySelectorAll being the most powerful.
Based on last year’s Stack survey, JQuery is the third popular.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...
Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#7In a world where many of us are actively trying to remove the last vestiges of jQuery, who is actively developing using jQuery? Genuinely curious. I’ve found that most of what I went to jQuery before is baked in now. querySelectorAll being the most powerful.
> who is actively developing using jQuery? Yea same, I am actively trying to get rid of jQuery, but my guess would be people get used to working with a tool and there just isn't enough desire or a business case to get rid of it as it would require a rewrite. I would say that I doubt new projects are starting with jQuery but I know there are devs out there that know the jQuery way better than the vanilla javascript wa…
But if you don’t want to get rid of it for business reasons, which I get, a major upgrade that changes a bunch of APIs and drops features would still require a lot of work.
And if you’re forced to leave 3.x over security or something (may happen in the future) then why not just move off then?
Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#8In a world where many of us are actively trying to remove the last vestiges of jQuery, who is actively developing using jQuery? Genuinely curious. I’ve found that most of what I went to jQuery before is baked in now. querySelectorAll being the most powerful.
Because I'm old and new tricks are less interesting, I find $.ajax() much more simple than promise, await, async of native JS.
I have used straight native JS on a couple of smaller personal projects just to get some familiarity with it. However, it's just muscle memory type of getting stuff done with $.ajax() for me.
Also, maybe 20 people use any of the code I write for manipulating DOM. I'm not a UI person. I'm a back end person that has to write front end stuff because nobody else does it.
Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#9With browsers having much better support with DOM selection, why would anyone be using jQuery in 2024? Not trying to throw shade, I actually think it's cool that it's still being worked on. But I'm confused as to what the use case is.
There's a bunch of pretty convenient selectors that are not supported by document.querySelector(), such as :selected, :checked and a bunch of others (I forgot which exactly, but I've run in to it a few times).
In general the DOM API offends pretty much every single of my sensibilities on how to design good APIs. I also have some gripes with the jQuery API, but it's a lot better. jQuery just reads and writes so much more fluently.
Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#10With browsers having much better support with DOM selection, why would anyone be using jQuery in 2024? Not trying to throw shade, I actually think it's cool that it's still being worked on. But I'm confused as to what the use case is.
Legacy projects? I maintain an old .NET web app that's ~15 years old and runs on jQuery. While the dream of refactoring or rewriting the entire thing using something more modern (like Web Components) is nice we're never gonna do it.