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jQuery hasn’t been necessary for many years. Vanilla JS equivalents of jQuery code are well-supported.

https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/



I've seen this site linked for many years among web devs, but I just don't understand the purpose? jQuery code is much cleaner and easier to understand, and there's a great amount of solutions written for jQuery available online for almost any need you have.


The vanilla one is so much longer.




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