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Discussion on: Who still regularly uses jQuery?

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Alan Dávalos

I would agree that if anything the point of removing JQuery is because you can do most of that stuff with just vanilla JS, not that you need to begin using a framework

As you mention, using a JS framework for every static 4 page site is overkill, but adding a 30kB library when you can make without it is still plenty overkill IMO

There's a good reason why Bootstrap 5 is ditching JQuery 5 and just using plain old JS ;)

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Holy-Elie Scaïde

Yeah, but jQuery and the like are very readable and consistent. Sometimes, jQuery may be too heavy, that's why I used a smaller framework for dom manipulation. But if it's there or there's no bandwidth issue, jquery it is.

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Anthony Bouvier

I do agree with you on removing jQuery to replace things with vanilla js. I'll never argue against that unless you still have to support IE11 (and I happen to need to because on some sites I deal with I still get upwards of 10% of my visitors coming from IE11).

But: 30kb, what ever will we do in comparison to what gets downloaded with React/Vue/Angular and whatever monstrous sized files webpack creates?

Yet the state of front end dev right now will download 100+kb in fonts and let's not even talk about the image size people put out right now.

Or the friggin' ad network includes, trackers, analytics, etc.

There are a dozen other things to fix first in optimizing front end web page total download size than a single library. The average web page size in 2010 was 702kb compared to in 2016 which is 2232kb.

jQuery's size is hardly the problem. :)