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No matter what JS library holds the #1 spot at any given time there is a special place in hell for all of them.
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I think people's disgust mostly comes from legacy sites where a junior tried to build a complete SPA with jQuery.
As a set of functions for showing/hiding a few elements... It's OK. These days, doing it with pure JS isn't much harder, but it was a fine, useful library back then.
I'm actually more disgusted with SPAs in general though, regardless of framework. -
chovy1174yIt was so easy to build shit with jquery. I wonder if there’s still jobs out there using it. Probably a mess by now.
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Well, I'd designate its place in my leaver rather than heart, but I get the sentiment 🤭
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MM8312364yI loved it back in the day but it was even worse than tailwind for actively encouraging bad code.
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