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Frontend has been a pain in the ass for me for quite a while as someone trying to learn frontend development.

jQuery's concise syntax beats everyone, I hope Javascript can adapt it someday, truly a KISS design gem. However I do need write code to do data-binding myself, which is important for interactivity.

Vuejs can be used to replace jQuery however it does not have the simple syntax, you do get data-binding for free without using its full-blown SPA framework. However you do need master a lot more concepts comparing to jQuery.

React/Angular are both overkill for 90% use cases, unless you're doing a serious SPA that is.

For me it's between jQuery and Vuejs these days, I learn both, one reason I worry about jQuery is that it's losing some steam and the development is not very active. Still I'm excited about this new release.

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I remember the first time I used VueJS after being a long time JQuery developer. It was incredible how much power VueJS and similar frameworks put in your hand using such simple concepts. Not having to add event listeners to everything and manually re triggering things is revolutionary.

I was building dynamic UIs with ease that would have been massive and bug prone jobs in jquery.

do you use the full spa framework, or just use vuejs like jquery(use script to include it in each page)? whenever you have to do vuejs full SPA framework it comes with quite some concepts which takes (a lot) time to digest and stay up to date.

For that project I just imported it on to a single page to build one particularly complex (for me) feature. It was a little news letter builder which generated a JSON string for the config and saves it to the db. The backend could then use that config to send emails.

I was getting nowhere with jQuery. My final solution in vue was tiny compared to just setting up all the event listeners on the first try.

> one reason I worry about jQuery is that it's losing some steam and the development is not very active

It’s super mature which I like. Compare to Vue 3 which is now GA yet lots of related components like Vuetify are quarters behind in supporting v3. Lots of exciting features for sure but also lots of churn.

on jQuery 4.0 roadmap page: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/milestone/7 , it seems having no progress in two full years.

Looks pretty active to me https://github.com/jquery/jquery/milestone/7?closed=1

Thanks! I will lean towards jquery more than vuejs as long as jquery is actively developed.

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