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for starting new projects?
by collyw 4y ago
for starting new projects?
- kbrannigan 4y agoBeginers and aspiring sofware developers tends to use the most popular technology, evangelized by the biggest companies. Since they don't know any better, they equate MOST POPULAR with BEST. Sometimes all you need is a wheelbarrow, you don't need a tractor.
- collyw 4y agoBEST is highly subjective. Most popular has a number of advantages- more developers, likely cheaper developers, bigger community but for most cases I am in agreement with you
- pier25 4y agoYeah. There are probably more new projects started with Wordpress themes that use jQuery than React projects. And it's not only WP. Plenty of big companies use it too. Amazon (the store) used it until a couple of months ago IIRC. If you don't need a super sophisticated frontend, jQuery is still one of the best tools around. People argue vanilla JS can do everything jQuery does, which is true for jQuery and any JS framework really, but they're really missing the point. With jQuery you can do express complex logic in a single line that would take many more lines in vanilla JS.