I unapologetically love PHP + jQuery, even for new projects in 2025. The technologies are solid, and they didn't stop working just because they are no longer tr

I unapologetically love PHP + jQuery, even for new projects in 2025. The technologies are solid, and they didn't stop working just because they are no longer trendy. Is vanilla Javascript "better" than jQuery? Sure, in some ways. But for those of us steeped in jQuery, it's so much quicker to whip up an MVP. If the ~90k of bandwidth becomes an issue, I can always retroactively swap jQuery for vanilla.