It’s been awhile since I did any frontend work. Is there something that has taken jQuery’s place?
Hasn’t JS6 got most of what jQuery offers?
Yeah personally I haven’t needed jQuery in years.
Except for animations and a few things.
What do you mean about animations?
Every use-case I can think about is already well supported by vanilla css/js without libraries or frameworks. (not including really out-there use-cases like game engines or image editors)
Can you give an example?
jQuery Effects are usually easier to work with than CSS alternatives, single predictable line with events vs multiple lines that you can’t hook thing into easily. Note that I’m not defending jQuery nowadays I even void it and always prefer vanilla, but there are things on that library that are objectify easier to do.
I think you’re forgetting about the Animation API.
Example: making something flash once to get a user’s attention
element.animate( {opacity: [1, 0, 1]}, { duration: 500 } );Use CSS animations everywhere you can, but if you need to be able to hook into an animation (to dynamically change the speed, cancel something, sync animations together, etc…) you should be using the Animation API.
There’s never a need for jQuery.
Jquery is a swear word in professional front end contexts, the replacement is transpilation and dropping ie support.
Personally I used jquery up until react and babel got hot, now I never touch the dom directly with jquery and no longer have a need for the polyfill features as I rely on babel preset-env to support the browsers we have selected (especially for things like promises/async await/es6+ features)
What do you still need babel for?
The only features that come to mind for anyone who needs to reach out to babel today would be those working on the tc39 proposals themselves.
As mentioned, JavaScript may have everything you need. Check out https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
