Wes and Scott dive into jQuery. Is it dead? Should you still use it? Why not? What are some alternatives?

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Show Notes

03:00

A stroll down jQuery Memory Lane

What was the first jQuery plugin you wrote?

jQuery Conference

jQuery IRC room

Ben Alman

9:00

13:00

So, why is jQuery going away?

16:00

The Selector API

Sizzle

Bling.js

querySelectorAll Docs

21:00

Working with Ajax

Fetch

Axios

27:00

30:00

Data / Utility Functions

Lodash

Just use Map/Reduce/Filter

Data Massaging 💆🏻‍

34:00

Cross Browser Compatability

Polyfill.io

37:00

Event Listeners

Event Delegation

Listening for events on multiple elements

47:00

Final Thoughts on jQuery

JavaScript30

The JS Foundation

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