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Re:I loved jQuery, and still do (2019) by motogpjimbo on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:08PM (#27681059)
You've never inherited a terrible, unmaintainable React or Angular app? I have on multiple occasions, and in fact my team is dealing with one right now. I'd prefer a jQuery mess to an Angular/React mess any day of the week. With old-school jQuery apps, at least I can get them to build and can debug the control flow.
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Re:I loved jQuery, and still do (2019) by heavyset_go on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @07:56PM (#27683330)
A couple of years ago I inherited a client's static site that was written in React before Next.js took off. It is a real accomplishment to make a static site as unnecessarily unmaintainable and convoluted as that one was.

Part of my screening process is making sure something like that doesn't fall in my lap again. Even static sites aren't safe these days.

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