Unbelievably, still supports IE 11 which is scheduled to be deprecated in jQuery 5.0
tartoran•1h ago
Backwards compatibility. Apparently there are still some people stuck on IE11. It's nice that jQuery still supports those users and the products that they are still running.
phinnaeus•55m ago
Are those people/products upgrading jQuery though?
jbullock35•41m ago
Who is still stuck on IE 11---and why?
ejmatta•36m ago
Some corporate machines still run XP. Why upgrade what works?
ExpertAdvisor01•34m ago
SECURITY
ddtaylor•20m ago
I think anything still using ActiveX like stuff or "native" things. Sure, it should all be dead and gone, but some might not be and there is no path forward with any of that AFAIK.
b3ing•1h ago
Nice to see it still around and updated. The sad part is I guess this means React will be around in 2060.
b65e8bee43c2ed0•25m ago
there are already de facto two Reacts. by 2060, there will be five.
2muchcoffeeman•8m ago
Two Reacts!?
exac•5m ago
As someone who doesn't use React, there is React Native (for iOS & Android), and React (and that can be server-rendered or client-rendered).
maxloh•58m ago
Even after migrating to ES modules, jQuery is still somewhat bloated. It is 27 kB (minified + gzipped) [0]. In comparison, Preact is only 4.7 kB [1].
jQuery does a lot more though, and includes support older browsers.
MarkdownConvert•41m ago
Long-time user here. It served me well for years, though I haven't really touched it since the 3.0 days. Glad to see it's still being maintained.
tonijn•29m ago
No love for $…?
netbioserror•28m ago
I was surprised that for most of my smaller use cases, Zepto.js was a drop-in replacement that worked well. I do need to try the jQuery slim builds, I've never explored that.
karim79•23m ago
Still one of my favourite libs on the whole planet. I will always love jQuery. It is responsible for my career in (real) companies.
Live on jQuery! Go forth and multiply!
jusonchan81•6m ago
The first time I truly enjoyed web development was when I got the hang of jQuery. Made everything so much simple and usable!
blakewatson•4m ago
Related: This is a nice write-up of how to write reactive jQuery. It's presented as an alternative to jQuery spaghetti code, in the context of being in a legacy codebase where you might not have access to newer frameworks.
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