An ode to jQuery (JS Party #150)

We take up a listener request this week and have an honest conversation about jQuery. Then, it’s time for something new! Our friends at Hot New Tech review tone.js for us. After that, it’s Pro Tip Time!

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Featuring:

• Hot New Tech – Website, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

jQuery convo

• umbrella.js
• You Might Not Need jQuery
• Project Fugu
• Alex Russell on Twitter

Hot New Tech

• Like and subscribe!
• The full episode on tone.js
• tone.js itself

Pro Tip Time

• Responsively
• Flexbox Froggy
• GitHub Refined
• GitHub CLI
• Go Time covers GitHub CLI
• Bash Guide for Beginners
• Ali Spittel’s tweet about brace expansion

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!