jQuery was the dominant library in front end web development not too long ago.
The industry has largely moved on from jQuery for greenfield projects, but I’m sure plenty of folks are still maintaining jQuery projects.
So I’m curious to hear about your use cases and plans for the future.
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Yes! I'm currently the one who's rewriting a 10-year old front-end codebase in favor of vanilla JS. It has come a long way and now is mostly only being used as AJAX wrapper and a Bootstrap 3 dependency.
Every day I'm getting closer to removing this one line from the core module.
We still use it in some older projects (that are in maintenance), but here is an excerpt I wrote in one of our newer projects (React):
Yeah, my current project is on the bleeding edge of technology!
I'm in the exact same boat, but learning MERN stack for future employment possibilities.
Still have some jQuery widget in a couple legacy apps I maintain
Our legacy code is in initial versions of Ember and so we are still using it.
Its real pain when you work in React and old versions of Ember side bu side
I did a quick project with jQuery a tad over a year ago!
Haven't touched it again (it's been working fine, no bugs anymore) but I enjoyed it.
Right after that, I started working with Vue and Nuxt exclusively, and I like it way more!
So much cleaner and easier to manage, especially with Vuex.
I tried React as well but I enjoy Vue much more.
I recently started using fomantic-ui.com/ and use jQuery with that all the time now. I didn't for quite a while and rolled completely custom, since I don't use React, Angular, Vue, etc. But switching to Fomantic feels like a nice breath of fresh air at the moment.
That is until the next CSS library uses Custom Elements and it'll be great. I'm still salty they got rid of
link[rel=import]Our newest project has jQuery on a part on Chrome extension.
Basically the selector engine inside jQuery is more versatile than native query and css selector needed for the project.
"You don't need jQuery?", you do.
Moreover, the library we need has a dependency for jQuery, and we can neither find any alternative nor has time to recreate it since rebuilding it will take several months.
We cannot waste several months just for sake of one part of a 20 part project.
Oh, one part uses jQuery, another React, on same page. Just not the way you would imagine.
Can use it in some not so big projects. Sometimes I need to use it if some other library depended on JQuery
Yes , me ... :P
you are totally correct, but here in india many companies still using jquery!
i am working on JSF and primefaces which is heavily depend on jquery and jquery ui.
interesting part is the project i am working is approx less than 2 yrs old.
well, future plan would be stick to the primefaces i guess.
NOTE : For my personal projects i would prefer reactjs.
Happy coding :)
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