I'm a bit sceptical about this article... I understand the point... jQuery is a nice place to get started for beginners and see how things have been done in the past and I also HATE the boilerplate with most modern JavaScript-Frameworks, but
> I want to build webpages that are fast
I don't think that jQuery is fast... Especially the fact, that jQuery hooks in every event handler to control the possibility to remove all Event handlers is something that is slowing down every app... event if jQuery is hardly used.
> use the simplest feasible code
I don't think that code is simple, when it is ONE single function that takes nearly every type as argument with different outcome...
And I don't like that developers could use this article as a justification... especially while modern frameworks like vue.js can also be used without setting up a webpack project...
But: If you read between the lines, there is something to learn ;)
If that is slowing down your app, something was done wrong.
This comment reads (and feel free to correct me for a wrong assumption) as written by someone that really hasn't used jQuery in a serious production capacity.
> I want to build webpages that are fast
I don't think that jQuery is fast... Especially the fact, that jQuery hooks in every event handler to control the possibility to remove all Event handlers is something that is slowing down every app... event if jQuery is hardly used.
> use the simplest feasible code
I don't think that code is simple, when it is ONE single function that takes nearly every type as argument with different outcome...
And I don't like that developers could use this article as a justification... especially while modern frameworks like vue.js can also be used without setting up a webpack project...
But: If you read between the lines, there is something to learn ;)