Re:I loved jQuery, and still do (2019)
by gunapologist99 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:11PM
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You are literally criticizing jQuery for its best features. Not having outdated libraries and potentially dangerous vulnerabilities is a huge plus for jQuery. Do you think just because you use a build tool for modules from all over the npm-verse that vulnerabilities just magically go away?
jQuery has had its share of dangerous vulnerabilities.
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery
Re:I loved jQuery, and still do (2019)
by gunapologist99 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:55PM
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agreed, but it's only one library, and might be the only one you need; really, it has an excellent track record considering that it's been around longer than npm itself.
You also don't need to include packages that are poorly engineered and maintained. For what you do decide to use, you are getting visibility into the warts that you may have blissfully ignored in the past.
The issues you are describing are not really problems anymore unless you let your app get woefully out of date. The web and browsers are a moving target, so it's critical that you minimize running legacy code wherever possible. Npm/Yarn and Webpack is a huge step in making that manageable. jQuery has been on autopilot for years because it has limited usefulness. We've collectively moved on except for a few holdouts.