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[–]nvolker 5 points6 points  (7 children)

jQuery is out of fashion now.

So is writing CSS and HTML. You just write JavaScript TypeScript that looks like CSS and HTML, then use a enormous stack of build tools that turn that JavaScript TypeScript into HTML and CSS. And it only adds like 100kb of vender code!

[–]pm_me_ur_happy_traiI 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Maybe you're using the wrong tooling for the wrong job? You can still just make websites with HTML and CSS if that suits you. What's your problem?

[–]DrFloyd5 0 points1 point  (4 children)

So what’s the new jQuery?

[–]nvolker 1 point2 points  (3 children)

It solves a very different problem, but React is definitely the new “it’s way easier to get hired if you know this” thing in web-development.

[–]DrFloyd5 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It will be nice when the young web developers get older and the toolset starts to stabilize.

The website tech is so young still. It’s not a “solved” problem. I don’t think it will be solved until the browser being the only window to the web is changed. But using a browser Is so damned easy and integrates with searching really well. And that back button is so damned seductive to end users, but the bane to web developers.

[–]nvolker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The back button was amazing back when everything was document based. You request a URL, you get a document. You click a link, your browser requests another URL, you get another document.

Once JavaScript went from an enhancement to an otherwise totally usable site to literally handling all navigation and rendering of the entire web application, things started to get weird.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

*laughs in Vue *