I visited the homepages of the 14.8 million sites in Google’s Chrome UX Report in October.

I thought jQuery would be dead, but it’s still on 53.7% of sites, and it seems to be tied quite tightly to the platform. Webflow puts it on 97.6% of its sites, WordPress on 84.9%. For contrast, React is on 10.6% of sites.

jQuery helped me get into web development, and I guess it still gets the job done even if redundant with browser standards these days…

  • Alavi@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    It’s actually good for some cases. Most things can be done with plain JS now. Unlike people like to admit, JS has become an amazing scripting language for browsers. But jquery can still be useful for some cases. Especially with the new shift-back to MPAs, it can be very useful alongside something like HTMX