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The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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Re: The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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Post by dexwiz »

Edmond wrote: post #51
tcfunk wrote: post #17

Seems like most of the comments on here pertain to the relevance of jQuery, rather than jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile. Sure most sites still use jQuery, but do very many use jQuery UI anymore? jQuery Mobile? I've never seen a project use jQuery Mobile.

I used JQuery Mobile to build http://letzcode.com/ Maybe it's time make it a real mobile app :)

I didn’t sign up, but I did click around the JS and scheme docs on my iPhone. The horizontal overflow is hidden so half the content is not shown. I cannot zoom out to fix the issue.

Re: The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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collinmanderson wrote: post #8

jQuery is still quite relevant and helpful. Despite the hype with newer libraries, jQuery is used on 73% of _all_ websites. https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library... I often tell myself, ok, I'm going to just use vanilla JS for this one, but compared to jQuery, it's way too verbose. Try doing $('.my-elements').show() in vanilla js. The problem is the jQuery foundation has become too bureaucratic…

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Re: The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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Post by interfixus »

leeoniya wrote: post #16
collinmanderson wrote: post #8

jQuery is still quite relevant and helpful. Despite the hype with newer libraries, jQuery is used on 73% of _all_ websites. https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library... I often tell myself, ok, I'm going to just use vanilla JS for this one, but compared to jQuery, it's way too verbose. Try doing $('.my-elements').show() in vanilla js. The problem is the jQuery foundation has become too bureaucratic…

whenever i feel the need for jquery these days, i typically reach for the much smaller, faster, ie11+ https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella

From the author of the Picnic css framework. That bodes well for conciseness, documentation, and style.

Re: The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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Post by andrew_ »

saas_co_de wrote: post #47
dexwiz wrote: post #27

People in the comment threads seem to be confusing jQuery UI with jQuery. jQuery UI is collection of interactions, effects, and widgets built on the more ubiquitous jQuery library.

jQuery UI was also tightly tied to Filament Group so it was a commercial product looking to capitalize on the jQuery name. That whole think was not so successful and jQuery UI was never that great. 5+ years ago it was bloated and buggy and it has not seen much development since.

Filament Group was a sponsor but the project was not "tightly tied" to the company. I believe that's a bit of FUD right there.

Re: The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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Post by newfoundglory »

drinchev wrote: post #38
taco_emoji wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does that really solve the issue though? All the IDE can tell you is that some browser version doesn't support what you're doing, it doesn't write the polyfill for you.

Most of the polyfills these days are pretty much syntax sugar & ES6 transpiling. If you do your code in non ES6 plain JS way, I'm quite sure the IDE will give you the benefits that you receive with jQuery.

By "these days" do you mean "needed to support the latest version of each major browser"?

Re: The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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Post by devoply »

srcmap wrote: post #62
invalidusernam3 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to use jQuery Mobile for a project once many years ago. It was a disaster, I ended up rewriting the entire thing

If you have to select a mobile framework today, what would you choose? I play with Framework 7 https://framework7.io/ and it looks very nice. Any other suggestions?

ionic. in fact if you took jQuery mobile and made it reactive via something like Angular, React, or Vue.js it might make it usable for today's expectations.

Re: The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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Post by wolco »

srcmap wrote: post #62
invalidusernam3 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to use jQuery Mobile for a project once many years ago. It was a disaster, I ended up rewriting the entire thing

If you have to select a mobile framework today, what would you choose? I play with Framework 7 https://framework7.io/ and it looks very nice. Any other suggestions?

quasar - ionic like vue framework.

Re: The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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Post by chmike »

tcfunk wrote: post #17

Seems like most of the comments on here pertain to the relevance of jQuery, rather than jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile. Sure most sites still use jQuery, but do very many use jQuery UI anymore? jQuery Mobile? I've never seen a project use jQuery Mobile.

I'm using jQuery mobile for a small shopping list application. What I miss are manually sortable lists.

Re: The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

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Post by COil »

collinmanderson wrote: post #8

jQuery is still quite relevant and helpful. Despite the hype with newer libraries, jQuery is used on 73% of _all_ websites. https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library... I often tell myself, ok, I'm going to just use vanilla JS for this one, but compared to jQuery, it's way too verbose. Try doing $('.my-elements').show() in vanilla js. The problem is the jQuery foundation has become too bureaucratic…

Agree. And for quick prototyping it's also very useful.
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