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Re:Why It's Time to Sunset jQuery by jarcoal on Sunday April 14, 2013 @02:20PM (#5547657)
Chain a few more commands onto that example and then we can talk about how readable the pure JS version is.
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Re:Why It's Time to Sunset jQuery by beatgammit on Sunday April 14, 2013 @02:48PM (#5547777)
I've never liked chaining, and I hardly ever find a time when it's needed now:

* animations: CSS3

* templating: I don't do it, I prefer static pages and toggle sections with classes

* element filtering: better selectors (nth-child, nth-of-type, [data-stuff=''], etc)

* form serialization: either use event handlers and build it as you go or just use regular browser form handling

Currently, I use reqwest [1] for my HTTP requests. It's very small and is cross browser. In Dart, I just use the built-in libraries.

[1] - https://github.com/ded/reqwest

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