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Imperative jQuery isn't that bad at all. I agree with you. Once I actually sat down and really learned Javascript 4 or 5 years ago my jQuery got a lot better.
by dham 11y ago
Imperative jQuery isn't that bad at all. I agree with you. Once I actually sat down and really learned Javascript 4 or 5 years ago my jQuery got a lot better. I don't think developers understand how to write maintainable jQuery. I see a lot of code where people unbind events before they bind and not using the .on methods.
It will still crumble in super complex interfaces though. Which in my experience don't pop up that often, and when they do it's only on one or two pages.
- sklivvz1971 11y agoThe new tabbed interface of Stack Overflow (in alpha) is all pure jQuery and it's fairly complex. I don't think it "crumbles" at all. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/308875/new-navigation-release-candidate http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/308875/new-navigatio... Disclaimer: I was one of the developers.
- dham 11y agoThat's awesome. We need more developers like you writing blog posts and going on Podcasts to kind of balance out this "chasing new shiny things all the time developers". When a tech becomes big there's a million blog posts about why it's awesome(extjs, backbone, knockout, angular, react). I've seen it all. Not enough constructive views on the other side.