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You can, and some JS consoles provide this for convenience if those vars are unused, but jQuery really shines with method chaining. That’s what I miss the most
by claviska 5y ago
You can, and some JS consoles provide this for convenience if those vars are unused, but jQuery really shines with method chaining. That’s what I miss the most from it. You could manipulate the DOM in incredible ways in “one line” of code.
- emodendroket 5y agoDepends what you want to do, but I've kind of come around because I feel like if what I want to do is so complicated that I can't easily do it in vanilla JS, it's also complicated enough that I don't necessarily want to do it by manual DOM manipulation. Changes the calculation if you have to support older browsers and such though.
- hoten 5y agoFYI chaining and a handful of the most common operations can be implemented in just a few lines of code: https://gist.github.com/paulirish/12fb951a8b893a454b32 https://gist.github.com/paulirish/12fb951a8b893a454b32 (Although I reach for the "cash" library instead of this or jQuery when I need something jQuery like)