alt Hacker NewsjQuery 4.0.0 Released
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Nice to see it still around and updated. The sad part is I guess this means React will be around in 2060.
Still one of my favourite libs on the whole planet. I will always love jQuery. It is responsible for my career in (real) companies.
Live on jQuery! Go forth and multiply!
I cannot express how much I admire the amount of effort jQuery puts into their upgrade tools.
Unbelievably, still supports IE 11 which is scheduled to be deprecated in jQuery 5.0
This is huge. jQuery is still my way to go for any website requiring some custom interaction that isn't available in vanilla js.
I love that they support ES6 modules, Trusted Types, and CSP! The clearing out of old APIs that have platform replacements is nice to see too!
The first time I truly enjoyed web development was when I got the hang of jQuery. Made everything so much simple and usable!
I remember being scared of jQuery and then being scared of vanilla JS. My, how time flies.
Incredible it's still being maintained.
Hmm maybe i can finally move on from 2.x
jQuery is the last time I felt a library doing magic! Nothing has matched the feelings since then.
Long-time user here. It served me well for years, though I haven't really touched it since the 3.0 days. Glad to see it's still being maintained.
jQuery is v4 now, but a lot of sites esp. wordpress still have 1.11 or 1.12 and only uses them to either doing modals(popover), show/hide(display), or ajax(fetch).
I was surprised that for most of my smaller use cases, Zepto.js was a drop-in replacement that worked well. I do need to try the jQuery slim builds, I've never explored that.
still needs more jQuery
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Even after migrating to ES modules, jQuery is still somewhat bloated. It is 27 kB (minified + gzipped) [0]. In comparison, Preact is only 4.7 kB [1].
Related: This is a nice write-up of how to write reactive jQuery. It's presented as an alternative to jQuery spaghetti code, in the context of being in a legacy codebase where you might not have access to newer frameworks.
https://css-tricks.com/reactive-jquery-for-spaghetti-fied-le...