Ask HN: Any Modern Alternative to JQuery? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Any Modern Alternative to JQuery?

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Post by nicbou » Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 12:07 PM UTC

mekster wrote: post #19

nicbou wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't download an entire library to save you some keystrokes. Just create your own $ alias if you must.

It's not just $... And why not just install jQuery? What's the big deal? Where can I find the short aliased library? (If it's not there, I guess it's not a popular idea.)

jQuery does not really add value in 2020, since browsers (even the ones that are widely phased out) have standardised all of its main features.

In the last 5+ years, I have never found myself missing something from jQuery. Is there something that jQuery does marginally better than vanilla JS in 2020?

> What's the big deal?

Sending unnecessary dependencies over the wire without any justification

Re: Ask HN: Any Modern Alternative to JQuery?

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Post by ev1 » Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 12:14 PM UTC

mekster wrote: post #16

speedgoose wrote: post #14

Vanilla JavaScript is what you need today. You can use document.querySelector, Array.prototype.map, fetch, and all browsers have the same behaviour so no need for any library like jQuery anymore.

Feature parity isn't exactly the reason to drop it.... $ is easier to type than document.querySelector and it absorbs browser differences.

$ is mapped to querySelector and $$ to querySelectorAll in just about every browser, isn't it?

$("#something").innerHTML = "Hi"; is vanilla JS.

Re: Ask HN: Any Modern Alternative to JQuery?

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Post by xupybd » Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 12:17 PM UTC

Have you thought about using plain typescript? It's a huge win to code organisation.

Re: Ask HN: Any Modern Alternative to JQuery?

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Post by cmer » Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 1:53 PM UTC

I’m against using jQuery as much as the next guy in 2020, but I had to use it recently because I needed JSONP and couldn’t find an easy way to do this without JQ. Did I miss something? (CORS not an option)

Re: Ask HN: Any Modern Alternative to JQuery?

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Post by the__alchemist » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 11:44 PM UTC

Check out the MDN web docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript

Bottom line: Use javascript without a library.

Re: Ask HN: Any Modern Alternative to JQuery?

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Post by sv0 » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 11:53 AM UTC

torstenvl wrote: post #20

mixmastamyk wrote: post #9

I want to try this soon: https://htmx.org/ htmx allows you to access AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~9k min.gz'd), dependency-free, extendable & IE11 compatible

Playing with it now, one annoyance is that it operates on names, not ids. E.g., if you have a You can't set statusbox as the hx-target and expect it to work.

I'm not sure what kind of issues you've faced with. According to documentation, you can set "#statusbox" as the hx-target and it works.

https://htmx.org/docs/#targets