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Discussion on: JavaScript or JQuery? Which do you use?

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Sebastian Alsina • Edited

I stopped using jQuery more than a year ago. I use React or Next instead. If I were to build a website without React or Next, I'd guess I'd still use jQuery. jQuery is great, but it's outdated. There's newer and better stuff.

As other have said, everything possible in jQuery is possible in vanilla JavaScript with just a few lines. There's not really a problem with using jQuery, it's just not something that's needed anymore in 2020.

If you're comfortable with the jQuery syntax, go with it! If you can use React or Next, do that!