Reading up on jQuery

The article examines why developers often avoid native web platform features, citing historical gaps, familiarity, documentation, enjoyment of building, and AI's influence on code choices.

Developers often avoid native web platform features due to historical gaps, familiarity with libraries, better documentation, and personal enjoyment of building things themselves.

jQuery, launched in 2006, democratized web development with a cross-browser API but has waned as modern frameworks and native browser APIs replace it, though it still runs on 66% of websites.

jQuery 4.0.0 final release is the first major version in nearly a decade, dropping IE<11 support and adding Trusted Types and CSP support.

jQuery 4.0.0 final release drops IE<11 support, removes deprecated APIs, adopts ES modules, adds Trusted Types support, and reduces size by over 3KB gzipped.