There are still plenty of enterprise level websites on Drupal and Wordpress or other like frameworks (or using Bootstrap.js) where jQuery is just part and parcel. If you have jQuery available already, minified and cached, rolling out your own custom vanilla javascript may not be the best option. Like you said in the article:
"The poorly documented helper functions a developer wrote ... will bite them as they onboard new developers later."
Of course a counter to that is to write well-documented helper functions, but still, there it beauty in the speed and elegance of well-maintained, cross-browser supported, chainable, utility functions and classes.
That being said, that doesn't mean I don't like writing my own functions and using modern libraries. But my feelings about such things isn't the most relevant factor in most cases.
There are still plenty of enterprise level websites on Drupal and Wordpress or other like frameworks (or using Bootstrap.js) where jQuery is just part and parcel. If you have jQuery available already, minified and cached, rolling out your own custom vanilla javascript may not be the best option. Like you said in the article:
"The poorly documented helper functions a developer wrote ... will bite them as they onboard new developers later."
Of course a counter to that is to write well-documented helper functions, but still, there it beauty in the speed and elegance of well-maintained, cross-browser supported, chainable, utility functions and classes.
That being said, that doesn't mean I don't like writing my own functions and using modern libraries. But my feelings about such things isn't the most relevant factor in most cases.
Bootstrap is dropping jQuery dependency in the next version FYI. Source: blog.getbootstrap.com/2020/06/16/b...