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680: Getting jQuery’d × Honourable Deaths of libraries We Don’t Use Anymore
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the libraries we don’t need to use anymore thanks to their features being built into the browsers now.
Show Notes 00:24 Welcome
01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:17 Why did people use jQuery?
jQuery
lukeed/polka: A micro web server so fast, it’ll make you dance!
05:12 Writing our own jQuery plugins
07:23 AJAX requests
jQuery.ajax()
08:29 Express
Migrating to Express 5
14:58 Underscore.JS
Underscore.js
19:27 Require.js
RequireJS
21:06 LeftPad
Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet” | Ars Technica
23:13 Grid systems
960 Grid System
Susy | OddBird
26:24 Sass, Less, etc.
Can Vanilla CSS Replace Sass Yet? — Syntax Podcast 603
26:58 Sockets.io
Socket.IO
29:50 What else is going to get jQuery’d?
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