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Funny that jQuery is one of the most liked technologies/tools on SO given the hate it gets recently from the community. I have a neutral stance on jQuery. I lo

Funny that jQuery is one of the most liked technologies/tools on SO given the hate it gets recently from the community. I have a neutral stance on jQuery. I love some parts of the library like its Sizzle engine and the extended selectors it provides out of the box and on the other hand, there are parts that I dislike like animation (very quirky to my taste) but I can't really feel any disdain or negative emotions toward it because I am still well versed in JS/DOM API and I can really accomplish a lot of stuff in the absence of jQuery. So, this animosity toward jQuery is but unfathomable to me.

debacle 11y ago
Most of the people who I have met who hate on jQuery haven't used it extensively and can't write a piece of software without npm.
- timrichard 11y ago
  Just my $0.02... I don't think there's anything wrong with jQuery, and these days it might be a smart choice to lightly augment a website, as opposed to powering a webapp. I've inherited jQuery and Angular codebases on freelance jobs in recent years, and I can say for certain that I'd much rather inherit an Angular project than a jQuery one. You have a fighting chance that the logic will be segregated into the components you would expect, rather than spaghetti markup/js mashups with bits of event handling logic blurted all over the place. That is of course the worst case scenario for a bad jQuery project, but it's often the reality when you step into a messy codebase where a procession of people have hacked around for a short while and then departed. I'm thinking in particular of a situation when a crappy, derelict jQuery plugin had been chucked into the project a while previously, and was triggering "stop script" prompts in certain versions of IE. Fun to debug. It's a framework/library thing. Angular is opinionated, but that's worked in my favour to date.
duderific 11y ago
The good thing about jQuery is that it makes developing web apps easier. The bad thing about jQuery is that it makes developing web apps easier.

debacle 11y ago

Most of the people who I have met who hate on jQuery haven't used it extensively and can't write a piece of software without npm.

timrichard 11y ago
Just my $0.02... I don't think there's anything wrong with jQuery, and these days it might be a smart choice to lightly augment a website, as opposed to powering a webapp. I've inherited jQuery and Angular codebases on freelance jobs in recent years, and I can say for certain that I'd much rather inherit an Angular project than a jQuery one. You have a fighting chance that the logic will be segregated into the components you would expect, rather than spaghetti markup/js mashups with bits of event handling logic blurted all over the place. That is of course the worst case scenario for a bad jQuery project, but it's often the reality when you step into a messy codebase where a procession of people have hacked around for a short while and then departed. I'm thinking in particular of a situation when a crappy, derelict jQuery plugin had been chucked into the project a while previously, and was triggering "stop script" prompts in certain versions of IE. Fun to debug. It's a framework/library thing. Angular is opinionated, but that's worked in my favour to date.

duderific 11y ago

The good thing about jQuery is that it makes developing web apps easier. The bad thing about jQuery is that it makes developing web apps easier.