Bootstrap 5 is set to dump JQuery for vanilla JavaScript

The Bootstrap team has removed jQuery from 11 plugins already including Util, Alert, Button, Carousel, and many more.

Additionally, Internet Explorer will not be compatible with this version.

But don’t stress if you love your JQuery, developers will be able to use this version both with or without jQuery.

With new JavaScript framworks like React and Vue now gaining more popularity, I think we will see more and more web applications moving away from Jquery.

There’s been a healthy discussion about this on Hacker News, and many users were happy about this development(me included).
One user commented, “I think the reason is that many of the problems jQuery was designed to solve
(DOM manipulation, cross-browser compatibility issues, AJAX, cool effects) have now been implemented as standards,
either in Javascript or CSS and many developers consider the 55k minified download not worth it.”

Another user commented, “The general argument now is that 95%+ of jQuery is now native in browsers
(with arguably the remaining 5% being odd overly backward compatible quirks worth ignoring),
so adding a JS dependency for them is “silly” and/or a waste of bandwidth.”

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This post was written by aido