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If you are mainly using jquery for its DOM manipulation¹ rather than for browser compatibility² or things that didn't exist consistently in older browsers³ then

If you are mainly using jquery for its DOM manipulation¹ rather than for browser compatibility² or things that didn't exist consistently in older browsers³ then there are much smaller libraries that do that job which may be worth looking into. https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash or https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella to give a couple of examples. Some explicitly support IE11 so you are not dropping as much support for legacy browsers as you might otherwise. Though if jQuery works for you and isn't a performance issue, then by all means keep with it. It may not be ideal, but good enough and does the job. Let the naysayers spend their time debating whether you should or not, and just get on with making things! --- [1] selection engine, chained selections, chained modifications, … [2] not the issue it once was, if you can abandon IE and old Android browsers from your supported UAs or can deal with any issues that crop up individually [3] again, if you can afford to drop support for legacy UAs

teknopaul 4y ago
I'm a big jQuery fan. Some new frameworks that do DOM binding are just too "magic". Sometimes there is close to zero js code for a page, which, while cool, means it's hard to find out what to do to add new featues when the default behaviour is not what you want. With Jquery it seems the balance of writing code to make page active, and not writing too much code, is correct. I guess I prefer reading code than docs.
- dspillett 4y ago
  Yeah, for what little front-end dev I do these days I prefer to keep the abstraction a bit more at the jQuery level. Quite a few of the mini-jQuery libraries, like the ones I linked to, are doing just that and allowing the sort of DOM manipulation it does but without all the other stuff.
wraptile 4y ago
Thank you for the recommendations - cash looks awesome and more than enough for most of my projects!

teknopaul 4y ago

I'm a big jQuery fan. Some new frameworks that do DOM binding are just too "magic". Sometimes there is close to zero js code for a page, which, while cool, means it's hard to find out what to do to add new featues when the default behaviour is not what you want. With Jquery it seems the balance of writing code to make page active, and not writing too much code, is correct. I guess I prefer reading code than docs.

dspillett 4y ago
Yeah, for what little front-end dev I do these days I prefer to keep the abstraction a bit more at the jQuery level. Quite a few of the mini-jQuery libraries, like the ones I linked to, are doing just that and allowing the sort of DOM manipulation it does but without all the other stuff.

wraptile 4y ago

Thank you for the recommendations - cash looks awesome and more than enough for most of my projects!