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Is jQuery still the go-to JS helper library? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by MagnoliaMayhem@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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It's been awhile since I did any frontend work. Is there something that has taken jQuery's place?

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[–] 0x0001@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago

Jquery is a swear word in professional front end contexts, the replacement is transpilation and dropping ie support.

Personally I used jquery up until react and babel got hot, now I never touch the dom directly with jquery and no longer have a need for the polyfill features as I rely on babel preset-env to support the browsers we have selected (especially for things like promises/async await/es6+ features)