The jQuery Divide
summary
Argues that jQuery’s huge adoption brings many beginners who learn get some elements and do something with them, producing DOM‑centric, copy‑paste code and maintainability disasters; shows an example simple search that scales into a tangled application and a rewritten, reusable component that actually works but scares stakeholders; cites job‑market graphs (Indeed) and skyrocketing popularity of dom ajax events and effects; recommends picking tools not APIs and adding dependency management and component thinking instead of treating jQuery as the whole platform.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:10The jQuery Divide
- 8:32jQuery Mission Statement
- 10:06jQuerys Mission Statement
- 10:49Simplicity
- 12:11The newcomers
- 13:10Terrible things are happening
- 13:39Thinking about components
- 14:51Rewriting search results
- 16:04Dont be judgmental
- 18:25Perception diminished
- 18:41Companies are looking for JavaScript
- 19:32Aaron Newtons post
- 20:28Application design
- 23:04Being intellectually honest
- 24:38Choosing tools not APIs
- 25:36We are smart people
- 26:24The grab
- 26:53Decision making
- 28:27RTFM
- 28:57Finding good resources
- 30:31The big questions
- 31:30jQuery QA
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