Does it make sense to use jQuery in modern-webkit-only web applications?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/153720
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04-11-2019 - |
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I'm lately working on a few mobile web apps for Android (2.3+) and iOS (4+). Their browsers support most of ECMAScript5, which is very powerful, and I wanted to use language features where possible, resorting to jQuery only when I had to.
Turns out the only thing I use jQuery for is to have a shorter alternative for document.querySelectorAll
. Might as well get rid of it.
If I only have to support modern WebKit browsers, is it a good idea to get rid of jQuery (and other general-purpose libraries)? They are a layer of indirection, after all.
(The apps don't have to make AJAX calls so far, I guess that's one thing that's going to get ugly. But is it worth keeping jQuery just for that?)
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