I just received an email from Froala saying they are moving away from jQuery from their next version.
[quote]At Froala, our mission is listening to our users needs and delivering high-quality releases that meet those needswith this in mind, were delivering one last release to cater to our jQuery dependent users.
2.9.7 is a huge improvement for v2, bringing numerous critical bug fixes and performance enhancementsif youre hesitant about jumping to the non-jQuery version, v2.9.7 is for you.[/quote]
I thought jQuery was the next big thing. I think CkEditor has made this move too. Is jQuery going away?
jQuery was the next big thing about 10 years ago. Now, that doesn’t mean it’s dying, just that it’s no longer as needed as it once was with the addition of many features to the JavaScript DOM spec. I doubt it’s going anywhere anytime soon, it’s just not the required crutch it used to be,
Bootstrap 5 will be “JQueryless”. Yes, JQuery is dying, but it is a loong die. So, don’t worry. Maybe in 5 years the technology behind Xojo Web changes (because JS changed and other lighter animation libs could do a better job than JQ at that time), but it will be just it, something changing, and if needed it could be extended few more years too.
Most things, included Xojo Web could go jQueryless now with the advances in the JS DOM spec. It would, however, take some reworking of code and would exclude the use of a number of worthwhile third-party libraries and components.
Yes, but that wasn’t always the case, and converting existing codebases is no small proposition considering the massive amount of code available that is drop-in useful with jQuery. It’s here, it’s not going away anytime soon, and there are plenty of good reasons to continue to use it for things like Xojo Web.