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Move away from jQuery in favour vanilla JS?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, jquery

Research direction

Start by auditing the tutorials for jQuery references and checking how extensively jQuery is used after the jQuery-specific tutorials. Define the tutorial scope and replacement approach before making changes; done means the agreed jQuery material has corresponding vanilla JavaScript coverage.

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Description

What are people's thoughts on moving away from the jQuery tutorials in favour of "vanilla" JS equivalents (e.g. things like document.querySelector)? This is for the usual reasons (jQuery is being used less and less, vanilla js/browser APIs are great for ~99% of what we'd want to do with jQuery, unnecessary bulk...) and because so many students end up using libraries/frameworks like React which still benefit from vanilla JS knowledge, but don't really benefit at all from jQuery knowledge.

Disclaimer: I've never really had to learn jQuery, and my main experience of it is converting jQuery code examples into vanilla (there are several useful resources for this :) )

I'd happily have a go at this, but can't guarantee the timeliness. Also I haven't checked how extensively jQuery is used/referred to after the jQuery-specific tutorials.

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JavaScript
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