Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?
by gremlinsinc on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:23PM
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Really? what if you have to support legacy apps that are 100% jquery on the frontend / php on the back? It's VERY much still a thing..
That being said, I don't think knowing jQuery is very valuable for JS developers anymore. Browser standards have come a long way and frameworks are handling your DOM writes for you, so that major use case for jQuery is gone in any website that requires substantial scripting.