It’s been awhile since I did any frontend work. Is there something that has taken jQuery’s place?
Hasn’t JS6 got most of what jQuery offers?
Yeah personally I haven’t needed jQuery in years.
Same here, tbh I haven’t thought about jquery in a while and kinda came in here to see if it’s dead or not. Yeah frameworks have largely eliminated the “need” for jquery libraries for most projects. It’s weird to think about, didn’t take too long to happen.
Except for animations and a few things.
What do you mean about animations?
Every use-case I can think about is already well supported by vanilla css/js without libraries or frameworks. (not including really out-there use-cases like game engines or image editors)
Can you give an example?
jQuery Effects are usually easier to work with than CSS alternatives, single predictable line with events vs multiple lines that you can’t hook thing into easily. Note that I’m not defending jQuery nowadays I even void it and always prefer vanilla, but there are things on that library that are objectify easier to do.
I think you’re forgetting about the Animation API.
Example: making something flash once to get a user’s attention
element.animate( {opacity: [1, 0, 1]}, { duration: 500 } );Use CSS animations everywhere you can, but if you need to be able to hook into an animation (to dynamically change the speed, cancel something, sync animations together, etc…) you should be using the Animation API.
There’s never a need for jQuery.
A lot of jQuery’s features are now available in native JS - would also suggest just using native JS anyway because jQuery won’t throw any errors into the console if a selector matches no elements etc.
The only additional library I’ve needed recently for (personal work) is Axios for requests - easier than working with the Fetch API in some cases
Axios for requests - easier than working with the Fetch API in some cases
May I ask what cases? I used to use Axios on Node, before they implemented the fetch API over there but I haven’t touched it since. And defintiely never used it on the client. Could you make an example of some case where it’d be easier to work with Axios than with fetch?
For me it’s the ability to set up a shared instance with the base request URL, and set headers for things like the user’s token, allowing all requests made with that shared Axios instance to be sent to the right path with the token without needing to define them for each individual request.
To be honest though something similar can be done with spread syntax in the Fetch API’s options parameter
Jquery is a swear word in professional front end contexts, the replacement is transpilation and dropping ie support.
Personally I used jquery up until react and babel got hot, now I never touch the dom directly with jquery and no longer have a need for the polyfill features as I rely on babel preset-env to support the browsers we have selected (especially for things like promises/async await/es6+ features)
What do you still need babel for?
The only features that come to mind for anyone who needs to reach out to babel today would be those working on the tc39 proposals themselves.
As mentioned, JavaScript may have everything you need. Check out https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
Nowadays people use HTMX
Not sure why downvoted. HTMX does seem to be becoming popular. I prefer the simplicity of it.
Because it’s only gaining traction, while the commenter made it sound like everyone was using it instead of jQuery. Which is simply not true, everyone is using Vue, React, Angular, Svelte and so on.
Ah okay- fair!
Htmx for server requests and AplineJS for client interactions
Is it foss?
