I use jQuery in specific use cases. One of those use cases is landing pages.
When running advertisements on social media, native platforms etc. it’s paramount that the core behavior of the page works in every browser. We do get traffic from users using ancient browsers (IE 9 etc). Not only that but
I don’t have huge amounts of time to create the landing pages.
I use all the modern jazz such as babel and esbuild, but jQuery has never failed me for this use case. I’ve recently started using it on some of my smaller sites. If the move seems backwards it’s because I’m getting older and my time is important.
I love jQuery – I usually continue to use it for small features on existing sites. I personally think you’d love something like React for landing pages. Trust me, it can drastically speed up your workflow, and with the build system you already have (Babel, etc.) it should work in all the same browsers 🙂
React is great. Used it many times. And Preact. Gatsby is great too for static site generators (although I still prefer Hugo, which I use to create the HTML for the landing pages because SEO is important too sometimes). I’ve been around the block a lot. But, more recently I discovered Elm 🙂 A lot of the time clients will pass over HTML files with content ready for styling.
Alpine JS is great too btw if you haven’t seen it.
I’ve been meaning to try Zepto in place of jQuery. Anyone comment on Zepto?
Edit: Github shows it hasn’t been updated for some time. Stale repos scare me.
I love jQuery and will continue using it as long as I need to.
my time is important
Also, jQuery makes possible the use of a lot of amazing JS plugins… With incredible coverage on older browsers.