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[georgehelyar]

jQuery reducing size by 867 bytes, meanwhile node_modules at my work is 8gb and the front end devs think "this is fine"

[annoorange]

I remember first learning about jQuery.. friend of mine showed that you can do accordions or modals in just a few lines (instead of 1000 lines in plain JS). Our minds were blown. Fast forward 3-4 years and everybody hated it. I have the same experience with React now

[keyboard_g]

Php, JQuery, and Wordpress are interwebs OG still running the show.

[chyldstudios]

HTMX and now jQuery 4?!?! These are truly the end of days!

[kevas]

Killer of HTMX, React, Vue, Svelte etc. is finally here, 4.0 in beta.

[MrTallAndy]

Web 4.0 - jQuery 4, Perl 6.0, Ultra FTP deployments 🚀

[aidanbrumsickle]

This brings back memories of creating drop shadow images in GIMP, then writing js to create 8 divs around my element because neither shadows nor border images were supported yet. Good(?) times.

[KyleHarrisonRedacted]

Among all the angular, vue, blah blah blah, jQuery has always been apart of my kit for.. god, almost 15 years now, reliably working all the time without complaint or issue (the same cannot be said about much else in the front end space for me)
Now that I’m knocking on HTMX’s door and jQuery getting a fresh 4.0, the future of front end for me looks like this: “as little to no JavaScript as possible, for everything else there’s jQuery”.
I’ve been spending the better part of the past month, ripping and tearing away at the products in my portfolio, to achieve the goal of no more Frontend compiling with gulp/grunt/etc. looking forward to a future of just including my libs with a script tag again. And just the two.

[bunpasi]

LVL 1 boss:
- bottom: 0;
- left: 0;
- margin: auto;
- position: absolute
- right: 0;
- top: 0;

LVL 10 boss:
- support IE 3 up to 8.

[-Jakob-]

one of the best web tools ever made. I still remember the time from the previous millenium when you would do all of the layout stuff using nested <TABLE/> in at least 3 seperate versions for Netscape, IE, and Safari as any other approach lead to an unmaintanable piece of work.

[bitwisedevs]

7:46 agree, I consider myself lucky to be able to study and use old technology/solution in one of recent project my team is working on which still runs this modern world. It's funny since it even predates JSON, XML and my whole existence, I am really amaze on how optimized the data being transferred across the network. There is something into that solution that also shows how far we evolve in using technology but also at some point displays how convoluted and slow things have become in exchange of readability and convenience.

[Noam-Bahar]

He didn't even talk about them switching the minifier to SWC. jQuery is built with Rust!

[albertoarmando]

I learned a ton about JS by reading the jQuery code back in the day.

[KayleLang]

I've been a hobbyist web developer for over 15 years. Mostly used web technologies to make my own personal tools. JavaScript was a nightmare 15 years ago. jQuery made it a million times easier for someone who didn't get into the ins-and-outs of JavaScript. I then tool a long break from JS because CSS became so much better. Also, frameworks became a thing (Ruby on Rails was amazing at the time). Coming back to JavaScript, it's unrecognizable. Things now work. It's a lot more like a functional language, which I'm really diving into now.
While I don't need to be compatible with every browser beyond the ones I use, at least I know my code won't break in the future.

[ExecutionSommaire]

I use 100% vanilla JS and so I can appreciate how jquery utilities made their way into native browser support

[aazendude]

As a 35 year old man. I could not be more excited.

[wild_shaman]

Oh. Last time I was doing some frontend stuff it was jQuery 1.2, I think.
As be dev I hate all these react/angular/vue bs. And I happy to see my old boy is still here.

[anj]

2:24 some factories or other obscure things, still have ancient hardware and the only thing that is working on that stuff is like Windows XP with old Internet Explorer. And they are not allowed to touch that, because some critical program is running on that PC. Simply following "if it works, don't try to fix it".
I personally was working as an IT guy in one such company, and it is very hard to update anything.

[keyboard_g]

He skipped where JQuery is built with Rust now.

[chrishoppner]

I remember writing my own JS compat library to deal with the ludicrous differences between browsers and browser versions. Then along came jQuery and blew everyone's mind. It's honestly awesome to see they're still pushing the web forward. People may scoff at jQuery, but it's so foundational to the web it might as well ship with browsers by default.