Great job jQuery folks! I will forever love jQuery. It simply gets the job done.
jQuery v4.0 Beta
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#22I was evaluating a SaaS solution just yesterday, and in one of their examples on Github they used jQuery as the primary frontend for the project, with extensive usage.
I passed on the company
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#23For those of you who are curious what drives jQuery in 2024 and beyond, you need to remember that WordPress is still more than 1/3 of the web, and the majority of installations and so many plugins critically rely on jQuery. Yes, seriously. Any advances to removing deprecated APIs or functions are great. jQuery will probably be around dominantly on the web for years to come.
Also, jQuery is awesome.
People have been in love with the overly complex and fancy javascript frameworks for the last 15 years or so. But jQuery doing dynamic binding to dynamically generated forms for some error states and maybe an ajax calls is literally all the javascript you need in 99% of web pages and the rest is overkill.
The industry is going to move away from the complexities to React and towards more of this simplicity with htmx, phoenix live view, ruby on rails turbo, and yes just jQuery.
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#24I was evaluating a SaaS solution just yesterday, and in one of their examples on Github they used jQuery as the primary frontend for the project, with extensive usage. I passed on the company
Why? What's wrong, if it works well?
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#25In 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.
The DOM API now solves a lot of the issues jQuery solved 15 years ago, but often in very different ways. I don't think it's better; a lot of the APIs are awkwardly designed IMO. The big upshot is that it's built-in, but that's it, and with a very small jQuery library you get a nicer API. Sometimes the extra dependency is best avoided, but often it doesn't matter.
So, whenever reasonable, I prefer to just add jQuery. Maybe there's something better, but the differences/improvements of what I've seen doesn't seem that great and jQuery works, so that's the point? I guess the younger kids never used it, but it's easy enough to pick up if you know standard JS.
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#26Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#27For those of you who are curious what drives jQuery in 2024 and beyond, you need to remember that WordPress is still more than 1/3 of the web, and the majority of installations and so many plugins critically rely on jQuery. Yes, seriously. Any advances to removing deprecated APIs or functions are great. jQuery will probably be around dominantly on the web for years to come.
They just need to add JSX support. Half the reason people use react is because of JSX.
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#28With 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 m…
`:visible` and `:hidden` are really cool
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#29Re: jQuery v4.0 Beta
#30For those of you who are curious what drives jQuery in 2024 and beyond, you need to remember that WordPress is still more than 1/3 of the web, and the majority of installations and so many plugins critically rely on jQuery. Yes, seriously. Any advances to removing deprecated APIs or functions are great. jQuery will probably be around dominantly on the web for years to come.
They just need to add JSX support. Half the reason people use react is because of JSX.
Maybe unpopular opinion but JSX is inferior to something like the Vue templating system. I much prefer to have HTML with some JS sprinkled in than JS that looks like HTML but isn’t.