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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Is jQuery Dead?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Wes and Scott dive into jQuery. Is it dead? Should you still use it? Why not? What are some alternatives?

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Show Notes

03:00

  • A stroll down jQuery Memory Lane
  • What was the first jQuery plugin you wrote?
  • jQuery Conference
  • jQuery IRC room
  • Ben Alman

9:00

13:00

  • So, why is jQuery going away?

16:00

21:00

27:00

30:00

  • Data / Utility Functions
  • Lodash
  • Just use Map/Reduce/Filter
  • Data Massaging 💆🏻‍

34:00

37:00

  • Event Listeners
  • Event Delegation
  • Listening for events on multiple elements

47:00

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss.

0:10.6

Welcome to Syntax. In this episode we're going to be talking about J-Quarrie. Is J-Quarrie dead? Which is the

0:19.8

click-bait title of this episode.

0:24.0

So as always, with me is West Boss.

0:27.7

Hello, hello.

0:28.7

Hey, how are you doing today?

0:30.1

I am doing fantastic.

0:32.3

I'm all recording on a Tuesday instead of a Monday morning right now so I'm all

0:36.4

juiced up and ready to go yeah so I'm not as as as sleepy as I would be on a normal Monday. How are you doing?

0:43.2

I'm more sleepy because I didn't get any sleep last night.

0:47.8

But I'm highly caffeinated so I'm ready to go yeah because of because of the baby yeah it was just some nights

0:58.7

just like most nights for me but not anymore though. It's been pretty solid. I had a rough night a couple

1:07.2

Nights ago, but it's only like maybe once every three weeks that you have a rough night.

1:11.2

Oh man, I dream of that life right there. It's really it really makes you appreciate sleep.

1:18.0

All right so today we are sponsored by two awesome companies. First one is a new

1:26.7

sponsor. Log Rocket and Log Rocket is sort of it does Scott and I were talking before this, it does all kinds of stuff and we sort of settled on that it does, it does three things.

1:38.3

It does exception tracking, which is if errors are happening on your client's website how do you know if they're

1:44.4

happening it'll log that it does session replay so how did an error

1:49.1

happen it will play that again and that does performance monitoring so we'll talk a little bit more about all three of those things,

1:55.8

but that is Log Rocket.

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