Yes it is legacy and most systems are trying to replace with something modern but still it is a dependency for many systems. To this day there are older cmses that are used to develop sites that depend on it. So it will take a while before the web stops using it.
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yeah, plus I feel for small projects, that require an API call only on specific pages, jquery is more economic to use(due to the hassle of spinning up a react or vue frontend) you can only use ajax on the required page.
I think for this use case you could easily use the built in Fetch API (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...), it is well supported by all modern browsers.
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Yes it is legacy and most systems are trying to replace with something modern but still it is a dependency for many systems. To this day there are older cmses that are used to develop sites that depend on it. So it will take a while before the web stops using it.
yeah, plus I feel for small projects, that require an API call only on specific pages, jquery is more economic to use(due to the hassle of spinning up a react or vue frontend) you can only use ajax on the required page.
I think for this use case you could easily use the built in Fetch API (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...), it is well supported by all modern browsers.