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March 28th, 2018 ×

Is jQuery Dead?

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Wes and Scott dive into jQuery. Is it dead? Should you still use it? Why not? What are some alternatives?

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Show Notes

03:00

  • A stroll down jQuery Memory Lane
  • What was the first jQuery plugin you wrote?
  • jQuery Conference
  • jQuery IRC room
  • Ben Alman

9:00

13:00

  • So, why is jQuery going away?

16:00

21:00

27:00

30:00

  • Data / Utility Functions
  • Lodash
  • Just use Map/Reduce/Filter
  • Data Massaging 💆đŸģ‍

34:00

37:00

  • Event Listeners
  • Event Delegation
  • Listening for events on multiple elements

47:00

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