I used to barely know how to write JavaScript .. let alone how jQuery worked. But after taking a very brief look at the jQuery source I started to understand this whole library thing... its very elegant. I want to do it. I cringe every time a web developer throws a jQuery plugin at a problem... yes someone has done a lot of work to help you out and do something very cool visually or even experience wise. But in how much of their 20 or more kb plugin are you using... there's a lot of options that you never touch. The world doesn't need another jQuery slider.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
FED Journey and unlearning jquery
Unlearning jQuery and switching to doing things with native JavaScript may seem a little crazy, but then again for me it kind of makes sense. There's a good amount of bandwith that can be saved. An in the race against the 1 second load time, it makes a lot more sense to ditch jQuery. Yes it has many useful functions... yes it saves a lot of time and code, and yes it makes cross browser sooo much easier, but I say that it is time to take off the training wheels as a front end developer and get down and dirty with pure JavaScript!
I used to barely know how to write JavaScript .. let alone how jQuery worked. But after taking a very brief look at the jQuery source I started to understand this whole library thing... its very elegant. I want to do it. I cringe every time a web developer throws a jQuery plugin at a problem... yes someone has done a lot of work to help you out and do something very cool visually or even experience wise. But in how much of their 20 or more kb plugin are you using... there's a lot of options that you never touch. The world doesn't need another jQuery slider.
I used to barely know how to write JavaScript .. let alone how jQuery worked. But after taking a very brief look at the jQuery source I started to understand this whole library thing... its very elegant. I want to do it. I cringe every time a web developer throws a jQuery plugin at a problem... yes someone has done a lot of work to help you out and do something very cool visually or even experience wise. But in how much of their 20 or more kb plugin are you using... there's a lot of options that you never touch. The world doesn't need another jQuery slider.
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