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>I'd love to see more mindshare go towards building libraries that are drop-in/"just add water" progressive enhancements for static sites. Sounds like jQuery p
by trashburger 6y ago
>I'd love to see more mindshare go towards building libraries that are drop-in/"just add water" progressive enhancements for static sites.
Sounds like jQuery plugins.
Seriously though, I wish for a similar thing without the baggage. Maybe there needs to be a common interface defined for such "just add water" libraries.
- filleduchaos 6y agoThere was/is so much that was genuinely awesome about jQuery. I still remember fiddling around with my blog as a teenager and being blown away by the DataTables plugin.
- jbergens 6y agoAnd large jquery apps often had so much spaghetti code that it took years to unravel.
- filleduchaos 6y agoInterestingly enough, neither myself nor MacWright advocated returning to writing large jQuery apps so I truly fail to see how this comment is relevant.