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Discussion on: Is JQuery still worth learning in 2021?

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zer0

Personal opinion: partially.

It’s good to know how it basically works because there is still a lot of projects/websites out there that use it.
But in general it’s not worth it to learn it primarily. Rather learn it the right reactive way with vue, react, svelte or angular.

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Lee

That’s a bloody good point. There is so much JQuery out there.

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Ben Sinclair

It doesn't matter so much that there's a lot out there. It's pretty evident what a piece of jQuery is doing when you look at it (unlike, say, a bit of react code where you need to understand a lot more concepts and it's frequently written to look "clever", most jQuery is basic DOM manipulation or using plugins. If you drop someone into a legacy jQuery environment, it's also so similar to modern, raw, Javascript that you can drop in a querySelectorAll if you don't understand what the jQuery's trying to do and it'll probably just work.

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Lee

Make sense!