I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
Bit of perspective here, but Bootstrap (still very widely used) still depends on jQuery, and there are a number of jQuery plugins that are exceedingly popular (select2 comes to mind immediately).
I'd be willing to bet that a vast majority of jQuery use is either to use stuff that depends on it like that, or are sites that don't have the practical ability to update to something newer.
I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
The problem is that a lot of people just stick with what they already know and don't look beyond that (and honestly, in the specific case of select2, I can kind of see why, I've yet to see a vanilla alternative that provides all the same features and doesn't bring it's own set of potentially significant complications).
Of course, really popular platforms like WordPress including jQuery isn't helping either...
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Bit of perspective here, but Bootstrap (still very widely used) still depends on jQuery, and there are a number of jQuery plugins that are exceedingly popular (select2 comes to mind immediately).
I'd be willing to bet that a vast majority of jQuery use is either to use stuff that depends on it like that, or are sites that don't have the practical ability to update to something newer.
I highly recommend looking for vanilla alternatives - given example (select) i have found two worth checking out: Choices, Selectr.
Agreed.
The problem is that a lot of people just stick with what they already know and don't look beyond that (and honestly, in the specific case of select2, I can kind of see why, I've yet to see a vanilla alternative that provides all the same features and doesn't bring it's own set of potentially significant complications).
Of course, really popular platforms like WordPress including jQuery isn't helping either...