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Pratik sharma

I saw a interview of the creator of JQuery. He also mentioned the most possible reason JQuery succeeded was that at that time JQuery website was very good and JQuery had a whole documentation with examples.
Now, for sure with the development in css and JS, JQuery is not that much needed anymore. Size is not the issue, it's the usability and accessibility.

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Junk

What do you mean by "size is not the issue"? Size is not THE issue. But is AN issue. What do you mean by usability and accessibility? Do you mean the usability and accessibility of jQuery? Or of the UIs built with jQuery? Nothing about jQuery necessarily hurts usability or accessibility. It's all in how you use it.

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Pratik sharma

yeah, size is important, but the size of JQuery is not killing it. When JQuery came its usability and accessibility was huge. JQuery was the king of DOM manipulation, animation and enabled developers to create plugins.
Now, with the updates in Js and css. I can create great single page sites without using JQuery.
It's just that size is not killing JQuery.