Is jQuery Dead? Should You Still Use It?

Is jQuery dead in 2018? Should you still use it? In this video I discuss why or why not you should use jQuery! Please watch all the way to the end to get some more information on what to do!

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[MichaelMiller-rgor]

I still use jquery at work and I quite like it.

[ido]

I am totaly depressed. There is no way knowing what should I invest my time and energy on when there are so many contredicting messages

[appcropolisTV]

Yes, there are alternative ways to do DOM manipulation, but jQuery is the foundation for many other plugins (e.g. drag-and-drop, form validation, maps, select2, etc.). If we get rid of jQuery, how do you suggest we replace features provided by jQuery Plugins?

[davidbasil]

Jquery dead, php dead, wordpress dead, rails dead...
Everything is dead except react and node of course.

[alexandrekharlamov]

Omg 15 years ago I was hearing "Javascript is dead", and now "Jquery is dead"... If you cannot see a difference between $('h1') and document.queryselector('h1'), then, of course, you don't need Jquery. If you are so serious about performance, then use WebGL and WebAssembly. But for everyday programming, Jquery is the stuff that makes the code clean.

[human]

lets look at this example: select all elements with a specific class and change the background:

Vanilla JS

var circle =

for ( var i = 0; i < circle.length: i++) {
= "red"
}

Jquery

, 'red');

Both do the same thing. WHich would you rather use?

[CodingTutorials]

That moment when you just filmed a should you learn jquery video

[ibuprofenPill]

Several of our sites rely heavily on jQuery UI and/or jQuery plugins for interface features. The items we use are not available for React/Angular/Vue and are much quicker than writing a TS/JS form scratch. As of 10/2022, jQuery UI still has it's rightful place in development, especially when you're not using front-end frameworks.

[Rilex]

how did you get this autocomplete jquery functions to show in VSC

[AndreNaves]

The reason I started to use jQuery was the possibility to run the same code in any browser.
Nowadays I'm used to code with jQuery and I don't know if we still have the same problems of browser incompatibility, but if we still do, I rather to use jQuery.

[whtht]

when i trying to create a full part dashboard with vuejs i have to use jquery for charts and other fast dashboard theme requirements

[marcodev]

jQuery is not dead. Now included in the JavaScript engine natively.

[architvis]

Use what you know. jQuery seems to be more readable and if you are used to it, then going a different way may slow down development and could be harder to maintain for you and others, even more so if you structure your code in an unpredictable way... Don't optimize until you have to. If your development process is fast, easy to maintain and no performance issues, there is likely no reason to change things if it will cause you other issues(unless the change brings something worth the new Now if it does cause performance problems and you know jQuery is the big contributor, then its time to move away from jQuery.... Just keep in mind every library, framework, or creating your own structure has its own I don't use jQuery, this is my opinion for any development tool, programming language, library or framework.

[human]

I find vanilla js is very cumbersome and over convoluted. Jquery shorten everything.

Of course im still learning so maybe I don’t know enough to comment but from my point of vue if I had a choice I’d never use vanilla js.

Disclaimer: I have Ned learned anything but vanilla js and jquery yet.

[somascope]

I really enjoyed Wes' and Scott's Syntax podcast episode about this, too! Cool that you were inspired to show us some good ol' on-screen post-jQuery examples!

I'm glad that performance was mentioned, if even lightly, regarding the newer selector ("new" because it's part of the HTML5 selectors API): querySelector / querySelectorAll. Performance is important, after all - and there are older Stack Overflow threads about how much faster older selector methods are, such as getElementById and such. But for what it's worth, querySelector is SUPER flexible in a way that really helps us not have to rely on jQuery, and I (just my opinion) don't think that people will experience a performance hit when you are only using it to find dozens or 100's of elements on a web page. Once you are selecting 100s or more, you have a different design issue to deal with anyways.

[TheTwiixy]

I don't understand why people refer to react, angular or vue when we talk about jQuery, those framework/library are meant to be used in Single Page Application so the real question is, is Multiple Page Application is Dead ? If we still do MPA wich alternative do we have over jQuery to make easy AJAX and Query over the DOM ?

[mariocarnival]

A nice Photo Gallery with arrows, thumbnails, titles, captions, how you can do it without jQuery?

[JohnSmith-rnvl]

Thanks for the link to this site, I will definitely make use of those code snippets I forgot that that place existed.

jQuery isn't dead yet though :D ... I would most likely try not to include jQuery in any main.js bundles going forward however I would certainly still use it in the following sort of projects:

1) On any stand alone pages away from the homepage
2) Social media campaigns
3) Marketing material that will not require much/any work to maintain
4) Mobile apps (cordova) where the initial file download size doesn't matter for instance
5) Wordpress sites.
6) Bootstrap websites
7) Small stand alone static websites in general (No rest api interface)

There is definitely still a huge place for it in marketing in general. jQuery is also more popular than any JS libraries or frameworks out there... people will be using it for the next few years for sure.

[PunxTV]

well, I'm not pro and I want to develop fast, so I used jquery. it's not dead.

[AaronEndsley]

Great video! I actually don't use jquery any more because I can use the DOM apis and they are not hard to understand once you understand what it is they do. As I said before great video....as usual 😁