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jQuery would not be necessary for a project like this, browser APIs are far enough along that many of its features are no longer needed.

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And yet, what is harder to attain and yet more necessary than the knowledge and impetus to implement such a project?

It may not be necessary, but the specific tools are't the part that are necessary.

It’s interesting that proponents of a simpler web argue in favor of Jquery for a use case where jquery is in fact very easy to live without. One would almost think dogmatic thinking is involved.

> It’s interesting that proponents of a simpler web argue in favor of Jquery for a use case where jquery is in fact very easy to live without. One would almost think dogmatic thinking is involved.

But to do without it, you will end up rewriting the shortcuts and utility functions that JQuery provides, effectively recreating a project-specific, less-tested and less-supported JQuery.

Yes agree completely and the same counter argument can be made for more advanced frontend frameworks.

Are still talking about the jQuery usage in https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html or in general? If the former, then I agree that jQuery was unnecessary here, all API functions used by the author now has appropriate functions shipped natively in the browser runtimes, so using jQuery was actually more work than not (unless the author never used the vanilla API but have used the jQuery API).

Otherwise I agree with you in general.

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