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Re: jquery status

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Andrew Poulos wrote:
> I realise that jquery is in use on a great many website but it's 
> interesting to read why one large site has stopped
> <https://twitter.com/mislav/status/1022058279000842240>
> 
> The main reasons given are
> "Fewer kb sent to visitors, more explicit syntax when performing DOM 
> manipulations, ability to use Flowjs for static type checking"

I have always said (at least thought), and I still stand by it:
“If jQuery is not already obsolete now, it will become obsolete.
Therefore, too, it is a mistake to make everything depend on jQuery.”

See also:

<https://gist.github.com/chitsaou/3066411>

Found by searching for the URI with “avoid jquery”:

<http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/>
<https://dev.to/belhassen07/why-i-dont-use-jquery-anymore--8nh>


PointedEars
-- 
    realism:    HTML 4.01 Strict
    evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
    madness:    XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
                                                    -- Bjoern Hoehrmann

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jquery status Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2018-07-26 07:49 +1000
  Re: jquery status Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-07-28 10:30 +0200
    Re: jquery status "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-07-28 14:16 +0200
      Re: jquery status Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2018-07-28 14:29 +0100

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