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https://www.pika.dev/search?q=jquery -- so jQuery is not "modern" any more? That's quite surprising, giving for instance the dependency of the http://semantic-ui.com/ framework on jQuery (https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/issues/1175)


All they are implying by "modern" is loadable with es6 modules.


jQuery was originally designed and built in a bygone era (on the web / front-end timescale), includes many features that have landed and/or normalized on the web platform and also does not leverage the modern JavaScript module system.

Let's call it "retro"? :)


Unfortunately there is still need for libraries like underscore.js, which also covers some jQuery functions (which are not DOM-related).


I think what they mean by modern is that every new project nowadays doesn't involve directly manipulating the dom and everyone uses some new library or framework of their choice.




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