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Oct 31, 2024 â‹… 11 min read

Why jQuery 4 is a good reminder to stop using jQuery

Shalitha Suranga Programmer | Author of Neutralino.js | Technical Writer

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One Reply to "Why jQuery 4 is a good reminder to stop using jQuery"

  1. This is indeed an interesting post.

    I have to contra with three aspects the post leaves unmentioned, though:
    1. Developer’s time is expensive. A more concise or fluent API that saves development time makes sense even in the modern age.
    2. Looking at the examples, I still find the jQuery API more developer friendly. Like method call chaining, manipulating classes of multiple selected elements with a single call, etc.
    3. Legacy apps.

    I wouldn’t use jQuery in a greenfield JS app, but it has its place in the browser environment.
    However, modern JS apps tend to opt-in for libs like lodash instead of jQuery to polyfill the utility methods it provides.
    Some more backend-heavy apps I’ve used recently opted for Alpine instead of jQuery for DOM manipulation.

    I have worked with multiple legacy apps using jQuery as well as apps in Vue and previously a bit of React, this is just a bit of my experience speaking.

    I actually welcome the new/more-modern jQuery version. Replacing jQuery in legacy apps would be pain, so a refreshed version might be a blessing in certain scenarios.

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