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Unfortunately, nowadays writing userscripts is much harder than it used to be. Most websites are using some sort of reactive FE framework so you need to make extensive use of mutationObservers (or whatever the equivalent is in jQuery I guess).
It's easier to write with LLMs. One-off projects (the way I treat userscripts) is where they really shine. Oh the horrible things I do with Instagram...
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In case you missed them: check out querySelector and querySelectorAll. They are closer to what the jQuery selector system does, and I think they were inspired by it. If the verbosity bothers you, you can always define an utility function with a short name (although I'm not personally a fan of this kind of things). https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Document/querySel... https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/A…
body.qsa('.class').forEach(e=>): Yes, add qs() and Array.from(qsa()) aliases to the Node prototype, and .body to the window, and you’ve saved yourself thousands of keystrokes. Then you can get creative with Proxy if you want to, but I never saw the need.
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Part of me feels the same way, and ~2015 me was full on SPA believer, but nowadays I sigh a little sigh of relief when I land on a site with the aesthetic markers of PHP and jQuery and not whatever Facebook Marketplace is made out of. Not saying I’d personally want to code in either of them, but I appreciate that they work (or fail) predictably, and usually don’t grind my browser tab to a halt. Maybe it’s because sit…
Facebook is PHP ironically.
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What's wrong with React? It made it so much better to build apps vs. spaghetti jQuery. I still have nightmares about jeeping track of jQuery callbacks
It's overly verbose, unintuitive and in 2025, having a virtual dom is no longer compulsory to write interactive web apps. If you want to write modern web apps, you can use Svelte. If you want to write web apps truly functionally, you can use Elm. React is the jQuery of our times. It was really helpful in the Angular era but we are living at the dawn of a new era now.
I find it very intuitive, with the exception of useEffect.
But then Google, Chrome, iPhone, PWA or JS for everything took over and took a completely different path to what I imagine webpage would be.
Still one of my favourite libs on the whole planet. I will always love jQuery. It is responsible for my career in (real) companies. Live on jQuery! Go forth and multiply!
Someone should just hook up a virtual dom to jQuery, it's got a whole plugin ecosystem that AI could really re-use. Jquery + Jquery UI + Jquery Plugins + AI is probably a super power we're all overlooking.
Why hook up a virtual dom when you have a real one? Unless you're saying AI can't interact reliably with a real browser yet.
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What's wrong with React? It made it so much better to build apps vs. spaghetti jQuery. I still have nightmares about jeeping track of jQuery callbacks
It's overly verbose, unintuitive and in 2025, having a virtual dom is no longer compulsory to write interactive web apps. If you want to write modern web apps, you can use Svelte. If you want to write web apps truly functionally, you can use Elm. React is the jQuery of our times. It was really helpful in the Angular era but we are living at the dawn of a new era now.
Amazing oss library, glad its still being maintained!
I’m glad JavaScript has evolved to the point we don’t need jQuery anymore.