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If someone reaches for jquery as an abstraction layer over JavaScript in 2024, I immediately question everything else. You’re pulling in the jquery library for a set of features, followed by hundreds of features you won’t use.
Absolutely no reason why you can’t recreate the same features in JavaScript, with a much smaller footprint.
Jquery is just shorthand, really – unless things have changed in the last decade (which doesn’t seem likely in the world of technology! /s), jquery is basically a way to stop writing document. GetElementById() and element.classList.add() over and over.
Don’t get me wrong, that shorthand was a valuable and unique addition to a tool set – jQuery code was much easier to read and maintain than vanilla js, for sure. But I feel like now that websites usually have build steps, using jQuery involves a lot more effort than just not using it, that, with its kind of naive approach to DOM manipulation, is where the hate comes from, imo. It’s probably still a great choice in a traditional LAMP stack build.
I wonder what’s the better API jQuery has compared to vanilla Js Tbf
If someone reaches for jquery as an abstraction layer over JavaScript in 2024, I immediately question everything else. You’re pulling in the jquery library for a set of features, followed by hundreds of features you won’t use.
Absolutely no reason why you can’t recreate the same features in JavaScript, with a much smaller footprint.
Jquery is just shorthand, really – unless things have changed in the last decade (which doesn’t seem likely in the world of technology! /s), jquery is basically a way to stop writing
document. GetElementById()andelement.classList.add()over and over.Don’t get me wrong, that shorthand was a valuable and unique addition to a tool set – jQuery code was much easier to read and maintain than vanilla js, for sure. But I feel like now that websites usually have build steps, using jQuery involves a lot more effort than just not using it, that, with its kind of naive approach to DOM manipulation, is where the hate comes from, imo. It’s probably still a great choice in a traditional LAMP stack build.