> It's almost as if the creator(s) built that site ironically.
No, the site's advice is simply more narrow and fine-grained than a blunt 'never use jquery'. From the front page:
> jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.
> If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, and forgo the requirement.
This seems eminently reasonable to me. For a website, adding a jquery dependency costs little and you get much nicer, more maintainable code.
But for a library, every transitive dependency introduces the possibility of future version conflicts for applications that depend on it. And at the same time, library code shouldn't need to change and grow nearly as much as application code.
So library authors should strongly consider forsaking mere convenience for the sake of reducing dependency baggage. This isn't even JS-specific advice, it applies to most ecosystems.
No, the site's advice is simply more narrow and fine-grained than a blunt 'never use jquery'. From the front page:
> jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.
> If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, and forgo the requirement.
This seems eminently reasonable to me. For a website, adding a jquery dependency costs little and you get much nicer, more maintainable code.
But for a library, every transitive dependency introduces the possibility of future version conflicts for applications that depend on it. And at the same time, library code shouldn't need to change and grow nearly as much as application code.
So library authors should strongly consider forsaking mere convenience for the sake of reducing dependency baggage. This isn't even JS-specific advice, it applies to most ecosystems.