Web Rush

Episode 187: Hey Siri, What's Up with jQuery? Part 2

Episode Summary

We're continuing our conversation about jQuery by talking about how you would've done something with jQuery, and what you'd do now - like finding an element by it's ID, and how to determine the value of modern web frameworks.

Episode Notes

Recording date: May 12, 2022

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

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Resources:

• JQuery
• Difference between jquery and JavaScript
• jQuery Tips and Tricks Pluralsight course
• jQuery Getting Started
• Pet Rock
• John Resig
• jQuery on Twitter
• The Story of jQuery, the thread
• jQuery is Ta’Veren
• HTML5
• HTML4 and 5 differences
• Document Object Model (DOM)
• Modernizr
• The Web Standards Project
• The History of the Web Browser
• John Resig on Twitter
• Zepto
• jQuery file sizes
• JavaScript Sizzle
• JQuery selectors
• Infragistics
• John Papa’s app written without any web frameworks

Timejumps

• 01:03 Root canal vs jQuery
• 02:21 Sizzle no longer needed
• 03:22 Finding an element by it's ID
• 05:05 Sponsor: Nrwl
• 05:45 DOM manipulation and animations
• 10:51 What is the value of some of these projects?
• 14:50 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 15:57 Writing apps with lots of components

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.