JQuery or Vanilla JS for WordPress development in 2023?

  • Hello all,
    I am a WordPress developer and I don’t often use JS directly as I use a plugins, But lately I thought it would be better for me to code the whole website instead of using page builders and so. I’ve read that lately there is no need to learn JQuery as every thing can be done in Vanilla JS much easier than the old days. What are your opinions about that?

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  • Yes. In the old days I would and did use jQuery, however ‘modern’ vanilla JS is very powerful and is my preference ( except when tweaking legacy jQuery code in some of my ancient plugins ).

    Also don’t forget the the block editor is built on REACT, so there is some logic in thinking about using REACT as a framework and REACT is built on ES6 not jQuery. And learning code vanilla JS is a step towards REACT which wouls be useful if you start to build custom blocks.

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