Creating my own custom forum software

[Elli]

To be honest, I can definitely just use core JS.
I'm really only...

• Using AJAX to submit strings & non-confidential data
• Button / element events (modals, etc)
• Fetch data with AJAX

I'm not really doing much with JS at all, so I probably will use core JS instead of jQuery or any library by the time it's live & public

For the AJAX fetch, you should definitely check out the Fetch API if you haven't yet! I did a little learning using the Giphy API, and it turned out pretty cool. Event handlers in vanilla are easy now, too.

 

[Ghost]

For the AJAX fetch, you should definitely check out the Fetch API if you haven't yet! I did a little learning using the Giphy API, and it turned out pretty cool. Event handlers in vanilla are easy now, too.

Yeah, I used a lot of core JS in the beginning, but we found that it was simply faster to use jQuery in a lot of our client projects that utilized more of it. As well as that a lot of our developers knew or were able to learn jQuery faster than regular JS, so we just stuck with it. The unfortunate part is that now I have a ton of jQuery memorized, but hardly any JS. The other nice thing about jQuery has been the similarity to PHP & regular shorthand style of selecting elements & their various attributes.

Simply put, we grew a reliance on it as a company and so did I as an individual

I'll definitely check out fetch()
I was using the normal xmlhttprequest

 

[Azareal]

I'm not sure how I feel about that theme, but it's certainly an intriguing software, good job.
And hehe, I cheat with jQuery a little too, it's just too convenient.

I do try to push some work before jQuery however, to try to get the most of the time that the jQuery file will block for, I'm a speed freak like that. The fetch API was useful there, although the fetch API can be a little overrated a lot of the time compared to just good old classic AJAX.

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