React is the new jQuery

Re:React is the new jQuery by irrational on Saturday June 02, 2018 @03:42AM (#17213329)

Nah, there were always tons of alternatives to PHP. What real alternatives were there to jQuery? There were none.

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Re:React is the new jQuery by molf on Saturday June 02, 2018 @05:37AM (#17213751)

I know this is a rhetorical question, but Prototype.js was pretty similar to jQuery; although jQuery won the popularity contest.

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Re:React is the new jQuery by jexah on Saturday June 02, 2018 @07:26AM (#17214068)

I don't presume to be an expert on history (only entered the webdev domain in 2010), but didn't prototype come out at least a couple of years after jQuery?

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Re:React is the new jQuery by FroshKiller on Saturday June 02, 2018 @07:47AM (#17214113)

Prototype was released like a year before jQuery.

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Re:React is the new jQuery by jexah on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:09AM (#17214193)

Absolutely my bad there. Thanks for the info! jQuery's popularity must have been phenomenal, because I hadn't heard of Prototype until maybe 2011.

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Re:React is the new jQuery by ioddly on Saturday June 02, 2018 @04:23PM (#17216189)

I think Rails used to include it as a default.

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Re:React is the new jQuery by mappu on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:13AM (#17214206)

Mootools had a fighting chance.

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Re:React is the new jQuery by vezycash on Saturday June 02, 2018 @06:17AM (#17213865)

Javascript is irreplaceable to the web

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