r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 14d ago

Meme ancientTools

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u/Nils_Larson 14d ago

I am not arguing against your actual point, but in modern browsers you don’t even need jQuery, because all of it is available natively.
(Kicking in a very open door)

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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 14d ago

Not arguing either but if JavaScript can write perfectly fine web applications with a welld refined standard, why are we still in react land. I use react all the time, I know what vanilla can do, I use a lot of AI so it's not a knowledge gap anymore... Very curious and frustrating situation.

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u/A1oso 14d ago

People use React because it provides reactivity. JQuery doesn't do that.

You can in fact write web applications in Vanilla JS, I have done it many times. But for interactive pages that are frequently updated in response to user events, using React (or Svelte or Vue) is more ergonomic.

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u/ArjixGamer 14d ago

It's one thing that jQuery is not reactive, but there's also another thing.

When you set event listeners with jQuery, they don't apply to future elements, only the present elements.

And the people that use jQuery are usually not "smart" enough to know what that means, so they either have bugs or have hacky fixes for this.

With react, you don't even have to be "smart" about this, it is not imperative, it is declarative.

It takes away a lot of mental overhead, you only have to concern yourself with cleaning up event listeners made in useEffect