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•1h ago
Are those people/products upgrading jQuery though?
jbullock35•1h ago
Who is still stuck on IE 11---and why?
ejmatta•1h ago
Some corporate machines still run XP. Why upgrade what works?
ExpertAdvisor01•1h ago
SECURITY
Joel_Mckay•43m ago
Yet it would still run Windows Adware edition. =3
ddtaylor•1h 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•1h ago
there are already de facto two Reacts. by 2060, there will be five.
2muchcoffeeman•1h ago
Two Reacts!?
exac•58m 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).
tcoff91•41m ago
class components & function components.
mikeaskew4•41m ago
by 2060 React Native should be up to v0.93
maxloh•1h 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•1h 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•1h ago
No love for $…?
netbioserror•1h 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•1h 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•59m ago
The first time I truly enjoyed web development was when I got the hang of jQuery. Made everything so much simple and usable!
Joel_Mckay•39m ago
jQuery made a messy ecosystem slightly less fragmented. Combined with CKEditor it effectively tamed a lot of web-developer chaos until nodejs dropped. =3
blakewatson•57m 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.
I used this approach before and it indeed works better than the 2010-style jQuery mess. A good fit for userscripts too, where the problem you attempt to solve is fairly limited and having dependencies, especially with a build steps, is a pain. Note that you don't need jQuery for this at all, unless you are somehow stuck with ancient browser support as a requirement - querySelector, addEventListener, innerHtml - the basic building blocks of the approach - have been available and stable for a long time.
doix•42m ago
Unfortunately, nowadays writing userscripts is much harder than it used to be. Most websites are using some sort of reactive FE framework so you need to make extensive use of mutationObservers (or whatever the equivalent is in jQuery I guess).
gocsjess•15m ago
jQuery is v4 now, but a lot of sites esp. wordpress still have 1.11 or 1.12 and only uses them to either doing modals(popover), show/hide(display), or ajax(fetch).
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