Re:You might not need jQuery (2014)
by robertlagrant on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:48AM
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If you're not seeing jQuery - as with every third party library - as something that now needs a mitigation plan in case it ever vanishes, and a security monitoring process to keep up upgraded, you're doing it wrong.
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Why do I need a migration plan? I have jquery.js saved on my disk; that's never going to vanish, and it's not going to stop working if upstream decides to stop supporting it. And if I discover a bug then I can just fix it myself, just like any code saved on my disk.
jQuery rarely has security issues anyway; and the issues that do exist are usually low-impact. It certainly won't have any more than any code I'll write myself.