<story><title>jQuery 3.6.2</title><url>https://blog.jquery.com/2022/12/13/jquery-3-6-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omgomgomgomg</author><text>Sure jQuery as a selector engine has more or less been replaced, css has advanced etc.&lt;p&gt;But the jQuery UI widgets are battle hardened and easier to deploy, case in point , date pickers, calendaries and well, slideshows.&lt;p&gt;And you can kind of replicate some of reacts behaviour regarding state management.&lt;p&gt;If all you need to do is keep state on a handful of elements, there is no need to develop in react.&lt;p&gt;Infact, just like the jquery heydays, react is often overused, for the most simply web forms, menus, footers.&lt;p&gt;And, no need for router and other state management tools.&lt;p&gt;Might be a bit unpopular, but when its all said and done, its compiled to js either way, I kinda like jquery or vanilla js for the front end and node&amp;#x2F;express for the back end.&lt;p&gt;The amount of react devs which struggle with css and vanilla js appears to be higher than during the jquery days.</text></comment>
<story><title>jQuery 3.6.2</title><url>https://blog.jquery.com/2022/12/13/jquery-3-6-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CM30</author><text>Sorry if this sounds naive, but... do people still use jQuery for new projects? I was genuinely surprised to see it was getting releases anymore, given how much of its functionality can be done with native JavaScript now.</text></comment>