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cdata on June 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pika CDN – A CDN for Modern JavaScript

jQuery was originally designed and built in a bygone era (on the web / front-end timescale), includes many features that have landed and/or normalized on the web platform and also does not leverage the modern JavaScript module system.

Let's call it "retro"? :)

ktpsns on June 18, 2019 [–]

Unfortunately there is still need for libraries like underscore.js, which also covers some jQuery functions (which are not DOM-related).

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