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> who is actively developing using jQuery? Yea same, I am actively trying to get rid of jQuery, but my guess would be people get used to working with a tool an
by kxrm 3y ago
> who is actively developing using jQuery?
Yea same, I am actively trying to get rid of jQuery, but my guess would be people get used to working with a tool and there just isn't enough desire or a business case to get rid of it as it would require a rewrite.
I would say that I doubt new projects are starting with jQuery but I know there are devs out there that know the jQuery way better than the vanilla javascript way to get things done.
- MBCook 3y agoBut if you don’t want to get rid of it for business reasons, which I get, a major upgrade that changes a bunch of APIs and drops features would still require a lot of work. And if you’re forced to leave 3.x over security or something (may happen in the future) then why not just move off then?
- dylan604 3y agoI'd imagine upgrading from JQuery 3.x to 4.0 will be much less hassle than starting from essentially a blank page even if you were using some of the deprecated methods (even though you've previously been warned).
- kxrm 3y agoYea, see the last half of my comment. There is a lot of legacy knowledge around how jQuery handles things and there are devs out there who just aren't interested in learning how to do it without jQuery. For their customers and users, it makes no difference.