Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow

Re:Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow by gregmac on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:11AM (#26162959)

You're missing the point I believe the OP was trying to make: ten+ years ago, jQuery was often by far the easiest way to implement most things. One line of jQuery could replace a dozen lines of plain JavaScript, even ignoring all the nonsense you'd have to learn about cross-browser support.

Today, so many things are possible and easier with plain JavaScript and/or CSS.

I'd even go further and say there's lots of new sites using jQuery unnecessarily because the accepted, highly-upvoted, but 10-year-old SO answer said that was the way.

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Re:Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow by ballenf on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:48PM (#26169208)

To summarize: jquery used to be best answer to many JS questions. And now it never is unless the question specifies its use.

No one should be recommending the introduction of jquery (to solve some discrete issue) unless it’s already part of the stack.

But that’s exactly the opposite of how the current state of JS answers appears.

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