Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development

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Comment by lanstin 3 days ago

I like jquery. I only do websites for data viz things so I don't follow all the frameworks and so on, I just want some nice D3 graphs and tabular reports and to have it be clear enough JavaScript that I can look at the math and maybe edit it. JQuery serves very well for that and for keeping me out of browser compatibility issues, although that seems to be less of an issue than in 2008 when I started with it.

Comment by gabrielsroka 3 days ago

> W3Techs still puts jQuery on roughly 66 percent of all websites and the overwhelming majority of those running any known JavaScript library

Comment by blinkbat 3 days ago

Fine for its time, should be fully deprecated today.

Comment by jmathai 2 days ago

Fine is quite an understatement. It was everything I loved about the Internet. I think jQuery was when I feel the Internet peaked.

It was dethroned by corporate OSS(react, angular) and it has never felt the same.

Comment by inkypathfinder 3 days ago

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