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| Sep 2, 2021 at 8:21 | comment | added | codeepic | @John - not everyone has a time to learn proper JavaScript just to be able to have a simple accordion or carousel on their website. jQuery caters to those needs. People building websites use jQuery, people building apps use React, Angular etc. jQuery, like other JS libraries and frameworks is just a tool. Don't hate on the hammer, because you can't use it for screws. A huge portion of the web uses jQuery and WordPress. It tells me that a lot of people find these sufficient for their needs. And so be it. | |
| Aug 27, 2021 at 21:32 | comment | added | John |
@codeepic You mean when the web was marching towards standards instead of having a Microsoft and a Netscape DOM it created a third DOM and it's not even compatible with itself across versions. It's a terrible fit for everything because the people wasting their time with it could have used normal JavaScript and I wouldn't be forced to add -jquery to literally every JavaScript search. The price of incompetence is extreme.
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| Aug 27, 2021 at 9:34 | comment | added | codeepic | Well @John - believe it or not but jQuery helped push the web forward. It provided consistent API when browser support for JavaScript was patchy. It allowed countless professionals & dabblers to deliver the functionality across all browsers. To this day if you are not a programmer or have limited time/resources/skills and just want to add some cool functionality to your web page quickly, jQuery will get you out of the rut. Should jQuery be used in the modern apps - no, definitely not. But for anything smaller that doesn't require Angular, React, Vue, Svelte etc. - it is a very good fit. | |
| Jul 28, 2020 at 16:46 | comment | added | Danial | Its always amusing to hear some rocket scientist coder talk about the "efficiency" of rare or one-off events | |
| Sep 13, 2018 at 9:53 | comment | added | PhilMaGeo | Great answer Toby : it helped me a lots thanks ! I translated it back to jquery as I use it everyday at work (I mean in the real world), Hope you don't mind ! ;-) | |
| Jul 9, 2018 at 15:26 | comment | added | Polyducks | As much as this meme about jQuery is funny, TobyRush answered the question in a very tidy way. While not the best answer, it's still clear of intent. A competent coder will be able to translate into vanilla JS and a novice will be able to make it work (albeit inefficiently) in jquery. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 19:49 | history | answered | TobyRush | CC BY-SA 3.0 |