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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

680: Getting jQuery’d × Honourable Deaths of libraries We Don’t Use Anymore

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the libraries we don’t need to use anymore thanks to their features being built into the browsers now. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:17 Why did people use jQuery? jQuery lukeed/polka: A micro web server so fast, it’ll make you dance! 05:12 Writing our own jQuery plugins 07:23 AJAX requests jQuery.ajax() 08:29 Express Migrating to Express 5 14:58 Underscore.JS Underscore.js 19:27 Require.js RequireJS 21:06 LeftPad Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet” | Ars Technica 23:13 Grid systems 960 Grid System Susy | OddBird 26:24 Sass, Less, etc. Can Vanilla CSS Replace Sass Yet? — Syntax Podcast 603 26:58 Sockets.io Socket.IO 29:50 What else is going to get jQuery’d? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0

Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with

0:06.6

JavaScript CSS node module barbecue tips get workflows break dancing soft skills web

0:11.8

development the hastiest the crazy as the tastiest web development

0:16.4

treats coming in hot here is West Barracuda boss and Scott El Toro loco Tolinsky

0:26.2

Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat we're going to be talking about

0:32.2

getting jQuery what that means oftentimes for a long time people ask to get a lot of

0:38.3

features added to the browser why can't we just have jQuery in the browser well here we're

0:43.3

here to talk about things that have been added to the platform to make it so that we don't

0:47.6

need to use libraries or maybe as many or heavy of libraries as we did in the past my name is

0:53.5

Scott Tolinsky I'm a developer from Denver with me as always is West boss what's up

0:58.6

we're not too much we've been thinking about this episode for a while and I initially had

1:05.6

this episode named express is dead long live honor JS but like the more I got into it the more

1:13.3

I was thinking about like there's a lot of not a lot but there's there's several big things

1:19.1

in web development that are no longer as highly used no longer as popular I'm not going to

1:25.3

say dead my own my whole course empire runs on express and I'm not going to move that anytime soon

1:33.0

but there's a lot of like tech where it's like if I was starting something new today I probably

1:38.0

wouldn't pick that tech because browser primitives built-ins are much better now standardization

1:45.7

and those things are not I'm not using them because they're bad I'm using them because

1:52.2

the standards are much better than when I chose that tech in the in the past totally you know

1:58.0

it's not going to get jake worried though is error and exception handling because there's no way

2:02.4

they can add that to the browser so I think we're safe there and if you need error and exception

2:06.0

handling you want to make sure that you can find all of your bugs if they're happening check out

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