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Comment by Fifer82 | Hacker News Reader

I am one of those people. It isn't that I don't understand it's purpose. What I hate is when people like my boss, who haven't read a text book on the subject for 13 years pull Jquery out automatically and force it into everyones face before any actual purpose for doing that is established. It really winds me up.

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Favorite development manager quote that I ever heard a manager say.

    "Why are you guys talking about JavaScript?
    Can't you just use jQuery?"

We can definitely agree on that. I tend to think about what the actual JS needs will be. If it's going to be relatively simple then I can hack it together in lighting speed in jquery and it stays easy to work on. If the complexity is going to be higher or needs to do more than a few fetches or xhr calls, it's time to consider something else like React.

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