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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by porker on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:38AM (#25774192)
> With modern JavaScript you can easily cast a NodeList to an Array, e.g.

Ah, thanks. I got bitten by this recently and didn't know what to do with this "thing that's not an array but seems like it should be, and doesn't always behave like one"

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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by nicoburns on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:51AM (#25774869)
FYI the reason it's not an array is because if you store a reference to it, it will stay up to date as and when the DOM changes.
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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by jarek-foksa on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:12AM (#25775897)
The NodeList returned by querySelectorAll() is not live. There is really no reason for it to return a NodeList other than backward compatibility.
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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by spiralx on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:54AM (#25775310)
Before that ES2015 allowed you to do Array.from(nodeList, mapFunc?) which I still use due to the optional mapping function e.g. Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a'), a => a.href)
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