Karlebolu:
Why?

This days, developers tend to go the way of angular, vue, react and the likes and what most of them believe is that Jquery has passed it's prime.

Why?

arejibadz:
Anytin u can do with jquery can b done with pure js

Karlebolu:
Why?

This days, developers tend to go the way of angular, vue, react and the likes and what most of them believe is that Jquery has passed it's prime.

Why?

LSarcastic:


I remember a day I decided to use vanilla Javascript for a website I was working on https://www.bonychicken.com I spent four days debugging a simple selector. I asked for help on all possible places. Everyone agreed there was no bug in my code. It eventually worked when I gave up on my stubborness and used JQuery, it worked like a charm.

It is true that JQuery is past its prime but it is so damned useful. People would say you could do it all with vanilla JS. Fine. Build your website with it and tell me what happened. Javascript has improved but not enough to ignore JQuery all together. That's why Bootstrap, the world's number one frontend framework still ships Jquery with it.
They are not stupid.

Johnmattee:

Bootstrap 5 is dropping jQuery, go to their website or Google it...so jQuery has outlived its usefulness.

LSarcastic:


Still, I insist it hasn't. There are hundreds of thousands of websites that would still use it. True, you no longer need it as before.
There are dozens of frameworks who still trust JQuery and won't make the major lead to using vanilla JS.
JQuery right now is just like PHP. There are alternatives and better options but people will still use it.

The fact that you no longer use it doesn't mean people wouldn't use it. It still powers dozens of legacy websites and it will power more still. The only thing is, the use would decrease. But it won't go away anytime soon.

Shepherdd:


I once read on Quora about an interviewer that said in their company, during the interview process if you use one single line of jQuery code you get disqualified automatically you won't even be considered. And jQuery is not like PHP. PHP is a turing complete programming language where you could build anything you can drea of while jQuery is just an abstraction over JavaScript.

LSarcastic:


Don't you understand the point I'm making when comparing JQuery to PHP? We all know JQuery is not a language (¬_¬) I'm comparing the philosophy behind their usage. PHP is almost down the list when it comes to techs you would use to build something huge. Same as JQuery in the world on front-end technology. But they will be still be heavily used in years to come

It like you don't even understand my point of view at all. Your rant is: JQuery is useless and has reached the end of its lifespan. I'm saying "No it hasn't. Even if it is declining in use, people will still use it for years to come." This is our point of contention. No one says it's impossible to do without JQuery. It's important you understand my view so the discussion won't be sidetracked.

Besides, if you're even using an abstraction in a job interview for any type of programming job, you're basically useless. It's like using Bootstrap when you're called for a CSS interview. It doesn't mean he is saying JQuery is repulsive in such organization. Besides, if you read the comments on that post, you'll see varying opinions on that fact. I'm sure you probably did not consider the comment section. Quora users are very opinionated and will express themselves in the comment section

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