• btaf45@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      jQuery will be still be around after the latest Javascript framework of the month is long gone.

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        6 months ago

        Maybe, but I wouldn’t say it’s really excellent.

        It was basically helping people deal with ancient browsers (particularly IE6) and a javascript runtime bereft of convenience features, at a cost of some syntactic awkwardness and performance.

        If you are targeting ES2020 and above, as is widely considered a reasonable requirement, you pretty much have the stuff that jQuery brings to the table, but built in without additional download and without an abstraction that costs some cycles.