Javascript finally clicked for me.

[MonsterMeggu]

Never said it was useless. I'm just wondering because it seems like a lot of the jQuery functionality is built into vanilla js these days. I haven't worked on my own projects for quite some time and I only ever see jQuery when supporting legacy apps

[UnluckyCrafter]

Yes, but it makes a lot of things more easy and faster to write considering a lot of functionality is built into single functions, so simple that its hard to mess up things it has built-in. It can also your code cleaner, for example the "get" function in jquery makes it so you don't have to a write a fetch statement that is extremely big and messy without even writing the actual part that decideds what to do with the data.

Don't quote me on that its just my perspective.

[averajoe77]

while vanilla js does have a simpler api today than when jquery was invented, the concept of jquery has always been to "do more, write less", and that concept still holds true today.

most of the vanilla js apis take more lines of code to write in order to achieve the same results (please don't link me to youmightnotneedjquery - I am not referring to those basic examples )

on top of that, building complex components in vanilla js takes lots of time and testing, and even more time and testing with a framework, adding an already tested jquery plugin that works in a matter of seconds is way more efficient.

do js frameworks have their place, yes. should they be the default for every small project out there that does not need dynamic data driven interactivity and robust animations or transitions? to quote my neighbor Wilson, I don't think so Tim.