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Why Developers Prefer Vanilla JavaScript over jQuery

Over the last few years, the industry has developed a preference for vanilla JavaScript, without relying on external libraries.

Louis de Bruijn
JavaScript in Plain English
3 min readMay 22, 2020

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jQuery is a lightweight and easy to use JavaScript library that helps in creating complex functionalities with few lines of coding. jQuery coding is shorter and…

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