jQuery served its role well: A single framework that worked across all browsers (especially IE6 when that support was still required), masking away a lot of JavaScript jank and giving a clear, concise functional layer to work with.
It started to lose its usefulness (and in fact impede development) when it got mixed in with TypeScript and other things, overly complicating the frontend "stack", and is now not really needed anymore.
Vanilla JavaScript has gotten boatloads of improvements as well.
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 2d ago
jQuery served its role well: A single framework that worked across all browsers (especially IE6 when that support was still required), masking away a lot of JavaScript jank and giving a clear, concise functional layer to work with.
It started to lose its usefulness (and in fact impede development) when it got mixed in with TypeScript and other things, overly complicating the frontend "stack", and is now not really needed anymore.
Vanilla JavaScript has gotten boatloads of improvements as well.
But it was such a saving grace back when.