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Discussion on: Who still regularly uses jQuery?

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David Dal Busco • Edited

I recently spent three months on a client's Java project for which I had to use jQuery.

  1. The UI was developed with JSF respectively Primefaces which (still) relies on jQuery
  2. IE still had to be 100% supported without Polyfill

I've to say, after a bit it was actually fun to develop and furthermore inspired me my last ideas of blog posts 😉

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Paweł Kowalski

Some might argue that jQuery is polyfill (IMO biggest pro of jQuery is that it polyfills/unifies/abstracts ugly APIs under its umbrella), when it comes to a lot of browser differences (especially old ie).

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David Dal Busco

You know what, I actually never thought about it that way but that's actually a really clever and simple way of describing jQuery nowadays.

Thank you 👍