BREAKING: jQuery V4 Is Here (YES REALLY)

You may think I'm memeing but I 100% am not. I think this is one of the most important framework releases in a long time. Huge shoutout to the team working on this, it's thankless work but y'all are keeping the web alive 🫡

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S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[ScottMaday]

Can't wait for Theo's next video: "jQuery 4 + Next.js React Server Components" to bring us full circle back to the jQuery + PHP days

[helleye]

Babe wake up, new jQuery just dropped!

[zaper]

This is exactly the sort of thankless but incredibly vital work that makes the world tick.

[MarthinusBosman]

Only working on frontend code occasionally, I found myself wondering why I used jQuery so extensively in the past, and realised it's because most of the features I now consider standard just weren't implemented in JS at all back then

[patrickcameron]

I’ll always appreciate how simple and beginner friendly the jQuery syntax is.

[VperVendetta]

I still develop internal corporate web apps in vanilla JavaScript and jQuery for a big multinational company.
So flexible and simple.

[mapron]

I started using jQuery in 2007, it was such a relief after writing js for netscape and IE 5 and stuff in early 2000s. I quit webdev in 2010; and I am not even your subscriber; but youtube decided to recommend this for me and I very excited of those news! Thanks for sharing.

[rtothec]

jQuery is still awesome! It is the most influential JS framework of all time.

When you don’t want hundreds of megabytes from npm and bloated reactive framework du jour AND you don’t want to waste hours learning new tooling du jour AND you just need a little JS help cause it isn’t your primary language then jQuery hits that sweet spot.

The fact that it powers so much of the we is a testament to how well it was built.

[offroaders]

This is outstanding! More things moving to plain ESM makes me so happy hehe

[codybishop]

As a wordpres dev, this is big news for me

[sandeepmb]

My career has started with jQuery. It's been 4 years I haven't worked on jQuery. Seeing the maintainers put a lot of work into the current release, I feel excited while cherishing fond memories.

[xeridea]

jQuery is great for those who want to have dynamic pages, but don't want the headache of fighting full JS frameworks to do anything non cookie cutter. Just straightforward code, you can do whatever you want. Not the best for everything, but it is definitely the easiest solution for many problems.

[crowdozer]

It's funny, I was job searching for react/next for a long time. I ended up with a Drupal/PHP job... and a lot of those sites use jquery. So this is actually relevant to me again 😂

[randyproctor]

This was genuinely so much fun to watch. I clearly am in the right field. Great content!

[KerimWillem]

Just wanted to say it feels like you are consistently creating more interesting content. To you and your team, good job guys/ladies!

[josephjamesfrantz]

These folks are doing a great job. I appreciate how even with your long videos, every word you say actually matters. I am learning a lot from you.

[baka_baca]

I've done my share of jQuery dev. Honestly, it's not all that bad and you can set things up to feel somewhat more "modern" including more or less components (though not as "fancy" as React of course).

I don't know, I wouldn't necessarily pick jQuery for a new project, but it's not the worst to use it for legacy projects

[AlexanderWeixelbaumer]

I still remember JavaScript when jQuery was released. It was a mess and every browser did things differently. And then came jQuery and tried to bring them all on the same track, so that when you wrote code everything behaved at least more or less the same in all browsers without you, the web developer, have to code exceptions for specific browsers (I'm looking at you Internet Explorer 5..)
And then JavaScript was upgraded implementing a lot of the features and standards that jQuery already providided.

I still stay with jQuery, because for my applications it is enough fast and easy to handle without changes every year. Nevertheless I'm still a bit underwhelmed when it comes to new functions that 4.0 providedes.

[tech-daddy]

I Love your channel. I am not a full-time web-developer (did a lot of backend also), am not even a full-time developer anymore since 3 years. But all frontend stuff I built so far have mostly been pure JS with JQuery, combined with other pure JS libraries. The latest project is now following the same recipe together with Bootstrap 5.3 and everything is ES6 Modules and the build is managed with node and vite. Perfect.

[RafaelMilewski]

Finally jquery is built with Rust now 😂