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0 pointsHasu2y ago0 comments

I'm genuinely curious - what features does jQuery have that make it better than modern vanilla JS? Back in the day the vanilla DOM APIs were bad, so jQuery was great, but I haven't felt the need to reach for it in ages.

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ipaddr2y ago

Better and shorter syntax, plugins, ecosystem.

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```

$(".box").hide();

$(".box").show();

document.querySelector(".box").style.display = "none";

document.querySelector(".box").style.display = "block";

``` Both work. The first is more clear

jacobr2y ago

```

const $ = document.querySelector.bind(document);

$('.box').hidden = true;

$('.box').hidden = false;

```

troupo2y ago

1. Not really.

jQuery is designed not to fail. So if there's no `.box` on the page, jQuery will not do anything.

`querySelector` may return null, so `$('.box').hidden` will hard break your page if you're not careful enough

2. `$('.box').hide()` is just one such example.

The hilarious https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ shows that jQuery remains more consistent, concise, and composable than most things in modern browser APIs

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