Why You Don't Need jQuery Anymore

jQuery was a wonderful tool that paved over the irregularities of browsers and offered a simple interface for making very powerful applications. Today with evergreen browsers and modern JavaScript, we no longer need this crutch. Let’s look at our favorite jQuery techniques like $.ajax() and $(…).click() and $(…).addClass() and compare this to the code we’d write in modern JavaScript. Sprinkled in are great ES6 techniques like rest and spread, promises and fetch. Challenge yourself on your next project to see if you can run in a post-jQuery world.

Talk given by Rob Richardson at the JavaScriptLA meetup.

Thanks to JavaScriptLA for giving us permission to post this talk. freeCodeCamp is not associated with this talk. We're just excited to bring more exposure to to it!

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[jonigazeboize_ziri]

0:07:36 what is jQuery?
0:08:23 Ajax
0:16:13 Dom Manipulation
0:31:08 Event Handling
0:33:40 Rebuilding jQuerry
0:44:44 Animation

[Gilpow]

jQuery: *exists*

Rob Richardson: I'm about to end this man's whole career

[cybervigilante]

Thank god. A language I don't have to learn (relearn). I get tired of the language/framework of the week.

[ipapoutsidis]

Rob good work from you, one slice of revision react is library...!
Keep walking...

[eduardojusti]

Modern DOM is more than enough, I don't a layer on top of native and simple APIs.

[serebniti]

Please disable autoGain on your audio record device.

[francissicnarf]

9:10 what does he mean jQuery is 2megs? I downloaded minified jquery and it's only 3kb

[ArjunUmathanu]

Did you say jQuery, The Write More, Do Less, JavaScript Library!! :D :P

[WillRaben]

Great talk but man was it hard on my ears.... RIP headphone users.

[arsalanshaikh]

I need jquery for all those beautiful Plugins that developers have published over the years....

[Diggnuts]

Fun fact, Nobody actually ever needed jquery unless they were an idiot, lazy or both.

If you depend on a framework to get your trivial website to work, you simply should not be allowed to script for real world applications.

[goranilic]

I can agree than some features like ajax are deprecated but is still very usefull library.

[greggfineguitar]

Where is he getting the 2 meg file size for jQuery?

[dandi]

So basically the only difference is with jQuery = less code, without jQuery = more code...???

[gz]

until 30:00
only I see you say is
"jquery is old"
to me it is good
i well learn other things
but can you tell my about js???

[casiothestrong]

Uses spaces instead of :| No. Just plain no.

[souravsen]

You still need JQuery if you dont want to waste time. Vanilla JS is still complex in certain areas. So use JQ if you want to save time.

[LonnieThomas-vs]

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[BettyClark-rh]

Johnson Steven Rodriguez Kimberly Miller Jessica

[pookiepats]

my ears … 😟😔 people just upload anything these days