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Discussion on: JavaScript or JQuery? Which do you use?

 
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Arnold A.

Okay, I didn't think of this scenario, but I still don't think it's worth it. If you are coding landing page, e-shop or something like that, and you don't need too much javascript then it shouldn't be a problem to write a few more lines of code in order to save 90 thousands bytes for website to load jquery. But if project is a little bit more serious then you shouldn't even think of jquery as there are modern frameworks that will make development almost perfect.

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Galuh Utama • Edited

Well 90 KB text gzipped is probably a quarter of it. Depending on where you live, loading time caused by it is negligble.

I always find frontend devs way of thinking to optimization interesting. Shaving few KBs of JavaScript but load dozens of MBs images. Then talking about avoiding dependencies but using node packages that indirectly pull in hundreds of other dependencies. Loading scripts from dozens of HTTP connections, etc.

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Tyler Smith

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