I get the purist push for Vanilla JS but for me it's still way too verbose. W3C has had decades to fix it and while it's improved it's still verbose as heck. Just implement the jQuery API into Vanilla JS and people would stop using jQuery.
1. Added element.$("selector") and element.$$("selector") functions. Later one allows to work with JQ sets:
for(let el of parent.$$(".child"))
...
2. Added element.on("eventname" [,"selector"], handler) and element.off()
These two allow to reduce need for JQuery to almost zero.
Also added JSX as a built-in feature to JS/runtime. So,
function Child(props) {
return <p>Generated child {props.index}</p>;
}
function Main() {
const list = [1,2,3];
return <main>
{ list.map( el => <Child index={el} /> ) }
</main>
}
// add the list to the DOM:
document.body.append(<Main />);
These three simple things, together with elment.patch(...JSX...) eliminate need for as JQuery as ReactJS almost completely.
I'm really surprised they don't get more shit for it.
People love to make fun of Java for being verbose but then go all googoo eyes over Vanilla JS. As a Java developer for 20 years now, using it makes me think a Java developer from the '90s designed it.
