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Re:You might not need jQuery by iSnow on Thursday January 30, 2014 @03:48PM (#7153263)
> Apps built on newer front-end frameworks like Angular and React might not need it, for example.

Well, Angular has jQuery (lite) built in.

Re:You might not need jQuery by cwp on Thursday January 30, 2014 @06:49PM (#7154228)
It has a jQuery-mostly-compatible node wrapper built-in, which is why it doesn't need jQuery.
Re:You might not need jQuery by cheriot on Friday January 31, 2014 @04:33PM (#7159322)
Which is both good and bad in that it also modifies jQuery's internals if it's present. (I last looked at the 1.0.x branch)