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Poor jQuery. You truly made the web a better place, but we have moved on. My feelings towards jQuery are almost exactly how I view my childhood dog. It was good
by RubenSandwich 9y ago
Poor jQuery. You truly made the web a better place, but we have moved on. My feelings towards jQuery are almost exactly how I view my childhood dog. It was good while it lasted, but I really had no idea what I was doing back then.
- eagsalazar2 9y agoI may not use it anymore, but I will never stop loving jQuery.
- jackhack 9y agoIf it's any consolation, your doggie didn't mind. That's what makes them such great companions. edit: r/care/mind
- tomc1985 9y agojQuery's still great if you don't want to use all these cheesy new-school JS frameworks. I have yet to find it lacking
- RubenSandwich 9y agoWell, I would argue that the main purpose of jQuery was to help cover all the strange DOM edge cases of the browsers of that time. In that case, it really isn't needed anymore as most browsers behave the same on like 90% of the things now. (It's just that people used it as if it was a Framework, not a library which caused a bunch of problems.) I am with you that if I'm doing something lightweight I don't use any of the new fancy JS frameworks, I just write vanilla JS.
- savanaly 9y agoThe new school frameworks' purpose is pretty much entirely orthogonal to that of jQuery's, although their features do overlap, which is I think why people mistakenly say what you just said so often. Angular, Ember, etc. are frameworks for coding routing, components, state, etc. Barely any of this was the concern of jQuery, which the main purpose of jQuery was to provide a lingua franca for interacting with browsers that were inconsistent in their implementation of javascript.
- tomc1985 9y agojquery + vue.js on rails is pretty sweet and no npm dependency BS!