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Its no different. React/Vue are modern evolution of jQuery. They allow you to organize front-end code with strict conventions and best practices. You can achiev

Its no different. React/Vue are modern evolution of jQuery. They allow you to organize front-end code with strict conventions and best practices. You can achieve the same result with jQuery and Backbone for example. But you'll need to discipline yourself a lot and good luck hiring developers (they all want to work on React and Vue).

blauditore 8y ago
> React/Vue are modern evolution of jQuery. I disagree. They are whole frameworks taking a completely different approach than jQuery, which is basically just a helper library. jQuery is useful as a tool for operating within an externally organized application (or otherwise mostly static DOM tree). It simplifies low-level operations like DOM element manipulation. Frameworks like React or Vue take a top-down, more declarative approach on how the DOM is built and updated. It's in many regards more powerful and more productive, but comes at a certain cost (setup complexity, total page size, certain aspects of performance). So, which tool is best for your project really depends on the individual use case.
- martin_drapeau 8y ago
  jQuery plugins are extremely powerful. Look at fullcalendar.io as great example. Web 2.0 was entirely built upon that. I hate to see people dismissing jQuery and its legacy as just a library. There is a huge community built around jQuery and thousands of plugins. It ain't new and shiny but you can build anything with it. In fact, today jQuery is used on 97% of websites* while React and Vue are around 0.2%. I imagine that will change over time. * Top 10M Alexa ranked: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library...
  - 0x445442 8y ago
    Yeah, the minute you start reaching back to the server for a significant update to the client data model in order to support a view transition I think the benefits of SPA are lost. Granted I've only deployed one SPA to prod and that was an Ember application but I'm not feeling the love based on that project.

blauditore 8y ago

> React/Vue are modern evolution of jQuery. I disagree. They are whole frameworks taking a completely different approach than jQuery, which is basically just a helper library. jQuery is useful as a tool for operating within an externally organized application (or otherwise mostly static DOM tree). It simplifies low-level operations like DOM element manipulation. Frameworks like React or Vue take a top-down, more declarative approach on how the DOM is built and updated. It's in many regards more powerful and more productive, but comes at a certain cost (setup complexity, total page size, certain aspects of performance). So, which tool is best for your project really depends on the individual use case.

martin_drapeau 8y ago
jQuery plugins are extremely powerful. Look at fullcalendar.io as great example. Web 2.0 was entirely built upon that. I hate to see people dismissing jQuery and its legacy as just a library. There is a huge community built around jQuery and thousands of plugins. It ain't new and shiny but you can build anything with it. In fact, today jQuery is used on 97% of websites* while React and Vue are around 0.2%. I imagine that will change over time. * Top 10M Alexa ranked: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library...
- 0x445442 8y ago
  Yeah, the minute you start reaching back to the server for a significant update to the client data model in order to support a view transition I think the benefits of SPA are lost. Granted I've only deployed one SPA to prod and that was an Ember application but I'm not feeling the love based on that project.