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Discussion on: No, React didn't kill jQuery

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Anton Melnyk

jQuery is not that faded away as it might seem. It's a common myth from people who develop modern apps and live in "closed" reality.

Believe it or not, but biggest part of the internet is still PHP and countless e-commerce websites that use and rely heavily on jQuery and its plugins.

So is correct, jQuery wasn't "replaced" by React just because they are orthogonal to each other. While React and other frameworks are hyped and cool guys, the very large part of today's websites is still good old backend templating and jQuery.

Believe me, it's not going anywhere in the nearest future.