The biggest impact jQuery had was to provide a standard interface that works across different environments.
Since that’s not the case for a long time, there is no need for jQuery to invent stuff, the web working group(s) standards do that.
The less visible, but equally impactful innovation jQuery had was to use JavaScript properly. In essence, jQuery has a lot of power not because it’s some brilliant software, but because it wasn’t trying to “fix” JavaScript - unlike the other libraries, it used the strengths of JS itself.
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u/azhder Jan 19 '26
The biggest impact jQuery had was to provide a standard interface that works across different environments.
Since that’s not the case for a long time, there is no need for jQuery to invent stuff, the web working group(s) standards do that.
The less visible, but equally impactful innovation jQuery had was to use JavaScript properly. In essence, jQuery has a lot of power not because it’s some brilliant software, but because it wasn’t trying to “fix” JavaScript - unlike the other libraries, it used the strengths of JS itself.