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Ask HN: Popular websites/open source projects/ that use jQuery?

1 points by saaspirant ↗ HN
I am learning JQuery and Bootstrap and I would like to read some codebases to understand how it's in done "real world". I can also try to read code of popular sites which use it using "View Source".

Google search is full of SEO articles completely unrelated to my query.

Thanks

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illuminant
jQuery is a hack of a tool the rest of the Internet is growing AWAY from. If you really want jQuery familiarity, just do a few tutorials, once you get the hang it's self-explanatory.

jQuery is a HACK! The cludgey kind. (One that simplified a hundred things for us over the nearly two decades.) it however doesn't fit in the new world.

Invest your time in a leading or minimalist modern responsive library unless you want to spend the next five years supporting obsolete code. (Try React, vue, etc.)

illuminant
Additional tip: start by learning the things that modern JavaScript does that once made jQuery king.

Know that jQuery and JQuery-ui are different animals.

Here's how "the pros" use jQuery:

- plug in to document ready

- selectors

- events (though we prefer modern events)

- ajax; now use native or axios.

- a consistent way everyone jacks their own code into the jQuery convention

- the ultimate hack tool for fixing others (and our own) mistakes.

It is however a mess over time, devs, and growing demands.

Nothing new should be designed depending upon it.

beardyw
In the 2000s JavaScript was inconsistent and limited in what it could do. When jQuery arrived it was a great tool to overcome that (I had actually started work on something like it when I found out about it). In comparison today js is far better and much more consistent. Only use packages you need, not just because they are there.

"View Source" will not get you far. If you mean use browser developer tools to view the js files, it will still be very very hard. Most of what you see will defy comprehension without knowing the background and design behind what is happening.