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It's just a random site I remembered from a long time ago, there are better ones out there. One of them convinced me that jQuery is just a crutch. I tried a sma
by DrSiemer 3y ago
It's just a random site I remembered from a long time ago, there are better ones out there. One of them convinced me that jQuery is just a crutch. I tried a small project without it and it really did not take long to adjust.
These days I find vanilla far easier to read and it is a lot more clear to me what is actually happening in the code.
Depending on jQuery limits your ability to work with code that does not use it. Ie a lot of the more professional libraries.
For me dropping jQuery feels like a step up. Why don't you just try it, see what happens. It's just a day of being a little bit annoyed and then you should be fine.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoFWIW, I'm not a front-end developer. I've had to do some over the years, but it's certainly not my area of expertise (I work in AppSec), so my opinion is worth very little. jQuery might be a crutch, sure, but I'm not sure crutches are a bad thing. There's no reason to make something harder than it has to be. I just like how some things take far fewer key stroke and are less verbose, but still readable. Readability is subjective. There are people that think Perl is fine and I think it ranks as one of the least readable languages to ever reach popular status. Meanwhile, I think Python is the most readable language to have ever been created, and somehow some people struggle with it, and tbh it kind of blows my mind.