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Is there still anything jquery does you cannot easily do with a couple lines of stdlib?
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Not even modern vanilla JavaScript?
It's fairly close now but so much more verbose: ie document.getElementById('theID') vs $('#theID')
For extra flavor, const $$ = (selector) => document.querySelectorAll(selector) on top.
Whenever HTMX comes up here, I always think "isn't that just some gobbledy-gook which replaces about 3 lines of imperative jquery?" Anyway, jQuery always did the job, use it forever if it solves your problems.
The problem with jQuery is that, being imperative, it quickly becomes complex when you need to handle more than one thing because you need to cover imperatively all cases.
Nice to see it still around and updated. The sad part is I guess this means React will be around in 2060.
Everything I ever used jquery for 15 years ago, I found myself able to do with the CSS and the JS standard library maybe 10 years ago. I honestly am confused when I see jquery used today for anything. Is there still anything jquery does you cannot easily do with a couple lines of stdlib?
Unbelievably, still supports IE 11 which is scheduled to be deprecated in jQuery 5.0
But maybe they will scope this one better: they were talking about getting 4.0 released in 2020 back in 2019!
[1]: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/5077 [2]: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/4299
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Backwards compatibility. Apparently there are still some people stuck on IE11. It's nice that jQuery still supports those users and the products that they are still running.
This is the part that I find the strangest: > We also dropped support for other very old browsers, including Edge Legacy, iOS versions earlier than the last 3, Firefox versions earlier than the last 2 (aside from Firefox ESR), and Android Browser. Safari from iOS 16, released in 2022, is more modern in every conceivable way than MSIE 11. I'd also bet there are more people stuck with iOS 16- than those who can only us…
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Backwards compatibility. Apparently there are still some people stuck on IE11. It's nice that jQuery still supports those users and the products that they are still running.
Who is still stuck on IE 11---and why?
I still love the simplicity a ajax call can be done in Jquery
Everything I ever used jquery for 15 years ago, I found myself able to do with the CSS and the JS standard library maybe 10 years ago. I honestly am confused when I see jquery used today for anything. Is there still anything jquery does you cannot easily do with a couple lines of stdlib?
Jquery does many things in one line that requires a couple lines of stdlib. Writing less code is what libraries are for.