Articles Tagged jQuery

We have big JavaScript frameworks that tons of people already use and like, including React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte. Do we need another JavaScript library? Let’s take a look at Alpine.js and you can decide for yourself. Alpine.js is for developers who aren’t looking to build a single page application (SPA). It’s lightweight (~7kB gzipped) and designed to write markup-driven client-side JavaScript.… Read article “Alpine.js: The JavaScript Framework That’s Used Like jQuery, Written Like Vue, and Inspired by TailwindCSS”

Say you have a list of 100 names:

<ul>
  <li>Randy Hilpert</li>
  <li>Peggie Jacobi</li>
  <li>Ethelyn Nolan Sr.</li> 
  <!-- and then some -->
</ul>

…or file names, or phone numbers, or whatever. And you want to filter them client-side, meaning you aren’t making a server-side request to search through data and return results. You just want to type “rand” and have it filter the list to include “Randy Hilpert” and “Danika Randall” because they both have that string of characters in them. … Read article “Filtering Data Client-Side: Comparing CSS, jQuery, and React”

As someone who has used jQuery for many. years and has recently become a Vue convert, I thought it would be an interesting topic to discuss the migration process of working with one to the other.

Before I begin though, I want to ensure one thing is crystal clear. I am not, in any way whatsoever, telling anyone to stop using jQuery. That’s been pretty fashionable lately, and heck, I wrote up something similar myself a few year ago … Read article “Making the Move from jQuery to Vue”

On March 6, 2018, a new bug was added to the official Mozilla Firefox browser bug tracker. A developer had noticed an issue with Mozilla’s nightly build. The report noted that a 14-day weather forecast widget typically featured on a German website had all of a sudden broken and disappeared. Nothing on the site had changed, so the problem had to be with Firefox.

A screenshot of the bug report filed with Mozilla.

The problem, the developer noted in his … Read article “Yet Another JavaScript Framework”

The DOM and native browser API’s have improved by leaps and bounds since jQuery’s release all the way back in 2006. People have been writing “You Might Not Need jQuery” articles since 2013 (see this classic site and this classic repo). I don’t want to rehash old territory, but a good bit has changed in browser land since the last You Might Not Need jQuery article you might have stumbled upon. Browsers continue to implement new APIs that take … Read article “(Now More Than Ever) You Might Not Need jQuery”

Most WordPress themes show user Gravatars in the comment threads. It’s a way of showing an image with the user, as associated by the email address used. It’s a nice touch, and almost an expected design pattern these days.

Every one of those gravatars is an individual HTTP request though, like any other image. A comment thread with 50 comments means 50 HTTP requests, and they aren’t always particularly tiny files. Yeesh.

Let’s lazy load them.… Read article “Lazy Loading Gravatars in WordPress”