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gondo on July 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lit: Simple, fast web components

Do you really need jQuery though? Pure JavaScript is viable these days.

fareesh on July 21, 2023 [–]

My needs are usually secondary to the library's dependencies.

I'm more than happy writing vanilla JS for my own event handlers and components. I don't mind adding a small library like alpine either to make the click handlers etc easier to write.

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