Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend

Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend by Macha on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:11PM (#17613780)

I mean, when you think about how many people were using jQuery for

(a) cross-browser compatibility, which mostly works now (except for cutting edge stuff, which is pretty optional) (b) $.ajax (uses that could be replaced by window.fetch) (c) Sizzle (Replaced by document.querySelector[All])

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Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend by Piskvorrr on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:02AM (#17616065)

Yeah. And IIRC, all of this came about as "let's take these awesome pieces of jQuery (which were written because browsers sucked) and reimplement them natively." Now the roles are apparently reversed, with jQuery being the Big Bad?

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Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend by floatboth on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:58PM (#17614020)

(d) the plugin system, which is replaced by Custom Elements (but unfortunately the React crowd is there with their own custom private component system)

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