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Reasons to use jquery - Other devs in the team are using it - Unless it's a small pet project, you will probably need it down the road even if you don't need

by jsnk 13y ago

Reasons to use jquery - Other devs in the team are using it - Unless it's a small pet project, you will probably need it down the road even if you don't need it now - Minified jquery is like 32kb. That means literally nothing in modern web. Unless you are from 1995 using 2G connection, this doesn't matter. - Modern browsers are good. It's going to handle jquery like a champ. Don't worry. - jQuery code is probably better than yours. - Lots of 3rd party libraries have jquery as a dependancy. Reasons not to use jquery and use just javascript - Want to learn javascript - Writing a library or framework and you don't want jquery dependancy - Working on a very small website

_getify 13y ago
> Minified jquery is like 32kb. That means literally nothing in modern web. Unless you are from 1995 using 2G connection, this doesn't matter. Or on like better than 80% of all mobile data connections in the world. But mobile is so niche, right? No need to worry about them.
- jsnk 13y ago
  Are you sure that 80% of all mobile data connections in the world is like 2g? Mobile speed in developing world isn't actually that bad. http://www.diffusedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/page-load-speeds-by-country--e1334947743593.png http://www.diffusedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pag...
  - _getify 13y ago
    > In Q1 2013, average connection speeds on surveyed mobile network operators ranged from a low of 0.4 Mbps to a high of 8.6 Mbps. Only nine operators demonstrated average connection speeds in the aforementioned broadband category while 64 more operators showed average connection speeds above 1 Mbps. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/23/akamai-average-internet-speed-up-17-year-over-year-to-finally-pass-3-mbps-while-mobile-data-traffic-doubled/#!t4ZMS http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/23/akamai-average-inte... My 80% number was hyperbole, but I do think the data supports that on world-wide average, mobile connections are drastically lower, and so making assumptions about a file size downloading quickly on fast broadband is ignoring an increasingly important part of the web traffic, which are years behind wired connections in terms of speeds.

by jsnk 13y ago

_getify 13y ago

> Minified jquery is like 32kb. That means literally nothing in modern web. Unless you are from 1995 using 2G connection, this doesn't matter. Or on like better than 80% of all mobile data connections in the world. But mobile is so niche, right? No need to worry about them.

jsnk 13y ago
Are you sure that 80% of all mobile data connections in the world is like 2g? Mobile speed in developing world isn't actually that bad. http://www.diffusedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/page-load-speeds-by-country--e1334947743593.png http://www.diffusedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pag...
- _getify 13y ago
  > In Q1 2013, average connection speeds on surveyed mobile network operators ranged from a low of 0.4 Mbps to a high of 8.6 Mbps. Only nine operators demonstrated average connection speeds in the aforementioned broadband category while 64 more operators showed average connection speeds above 1 Mbps. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/23/akamai-average-internet-speed-up-17-year-over-year-to-finally-pass-3-mbps-while-mobile-data-traffic-doubled/#!t4ZMS http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/23/akamai-average-inte... My 80% number was hyperbole, but I do think the data supports that on world-wide average, mobile connections are drastically lower, and so making assumptions about a file size downloading quickly on fast broadband is ignoring an increasingly important part of the web traffic, which are years behind wired connections in terms of speeds.