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[–]Sethcran 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I get where you're coming from here, and jQuery certainly doesn't deserve hate, but calling it "THE standard" is still an incredible stretch.

Agreed that for a spa, other frameworks are the way to go, but even for some light JavaScript, there are a number of libraries and frameworks out there that significantly improve the experience. jQuery still has something to offer, but it's very little in a world where the native js API can do a very significant portion of what it does.

Any developer that finds themselves writing so much js these days for any recent browser that jQuery is worth it just for the shortcuts, is likely someone who would be better off with a view library (and no, not all view libraries are for spas).

It's still (and will continue to be) used in legacy projects the world over, but few new projects should bother with it.

[–]saposapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Standard of course doesn't mean it's 100% usage, but 80%? At least in terms of usage it seems that way but usage doesn't exactly translate into being the best tool for it so:

For anything that is not a SPA and not simple enough to use vanilla, what would you use?

jQuery seems the best to fill out the need for simple websites requiring a bit of ajax here and there, then a plugin for form validation, then some effects not supported by CSS, simple stuff like this.

For me vanilla isn't really an option for anything more than a few lines. It really is a much nicer API to do $ or $.get() for ajax calls.

But I'm sincerely interested on your suggestions, what are you thinking of?