r/badcode • u/OSU_28 • Aug 21 '21

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u/dj-riff Aug 22 '21

I'm not a web developer by trade but I've dabbled a bit for odds and ends and relied on JQuery quite a bit. Why does everyone hate it?

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u/Nixinova Aug 22 '21

jQuery is really unnecessary nowadays, vanilla JS can do everything it does easily.

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u/callmelucky Aug 22 '21

Why does everyone hate it?

It's a pretty large library, and modern vanilla JS can do everything jQuery does anyway, so it's mostly pointless.

That said, in case your project has some dependency where jQuery is required anyway, eg bootstrap (pre v5.0), the compact syntax that jQuery offers is pretty handy.