I visited the homepages of the 14.8 million sites in Google’s Chrome UX Report in October.

I thought jQuery would be dead, but it’s still on 53.7% of sites, and it seems to be tied quite tightly to the platform. Webflow puts it on 97.6% of its sites, WordPress on 84.9%. For contrast, React is on 10.6% of sites.

jQuery helped me get into web development, and I guess it still gets the job done even if redundant with browser standards these days…

  • Azura The Spellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    29 minutes ago

    To be fair, jQuery isn’t bad or outdated. Not everything on the web tries to be a webapp. If you just want to load a comments widget or handle form submission, vanilla js or jQuery can be better than frameworks that add bloat and many moving parts that could break.

  • DecorativeTarp@lemmy.zip
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Stock Wordpress no longer requires it anywhere on the front end, but the mass of older sites, plugins, and themes are probably still rocking it. (And it’s still deeply embedded in the core/dashboard.)

    • thewebreport@programming.devOP
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah be interested to see if WordPress’s share drops over time. Is painful to optimise a custom theme, light vanilla JS then some plugin enqueues the bloat right back in 🫠

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 hours ago

    I still use bookmarklets to inject it and change data/layout on certain sites. Not as frequently as I used to, mind you, but still. It was pretty ahead of its time.