I started with manual ajax calls and browser compatibility issues. It was a painful time. I remember jquery solved some real problems. But I found the best dev

I started with manual ajax calls and browser compatibility issues. It was a painful time. I remember jquery solved some real problems. But I found the best development cycle as a rails/django multi page apps developer. Anytime I encountered something I needed to update without a refresh it was easy to solve with polling or eventually websockets.