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Re:You Don't Need JQuery by sfeng on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @02:46PM (#8758945)
This may seem anecdotal, but I can tell you from writing a lot of non-jQueryified code that with modern browsers, applying classes to dozens of elements dynamically can be an anti-pattern. 99% of the time, when doing something which previously would have required that, I can use a single class on a parent element.
Re:You Don't Need JQuery by usingpond on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @02:53PM (#8758986)
Not if you're in an environment (like mobile) where you want to reduce repaint.
Re:You Don't Need JQuery by malandrew on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:50AM (#8761361)
In which case you don't want to be using jQuery at all and should instead be using a virtual DOM implementation like virtual-dom, famo.us, react or mithril.

https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

Re:You Don't Need JQuery by ulisesrmzroche on Thursday December 18, 2014 @10:12AM (#8767537)
What if you don't have the option to all of a sudden bust out a new framework? Some of these scenarios are just unrealistic.
Re:You Don't Need JQuery by ulisesrmzroche on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:51PM (#8760093)
No, you're going to mess with repaints and renders. It is not an anti pattern.