Re:jQuery 3.6.2 Released
by pier25 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:14PM
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Yeah. There are probably more new projects started with Wordpress themes that use jQuery than React projects.
And it's not only WP. Plenty of big companies use it too. Amazon (the store) used it until a couple of months ago IIRC.
If you don't need a super sophisticated frontend, jQuery is still one of the best tools around.
People argue vanilla JS can do everything jQuery does, which is true for jQuery and any JS framework really, but they're really missing the point. With jQuery you can do express complex logic in a single line that would take many more lines in vanilla JS.
And it's not only WP. Plenty of big companies use it too. Amazon (the store) used it until a couple of months ago IIRC.
If you don't need a super sophisticated frontend, jQuery is still one of the best tools around.
People argue vanilla JS can do everything jQuery does, which is true for jQuery and any JS framework really, but they're really missing the point. With jQuery you can do express complex logic in a single line that would take many more lines in vanilla JS.