/r/LearnJavaScript <-- Link for the lazy! :-D

I’ve come to notice after years of dancing with jQuery (and I do mean a slow, sensual waltz through countless DOMs) is this: frameworks like React and Vue didn’t arrive because JavaScript itself was broken. They came into being because we, the developers, made it unwieldy. We overcomplicated. We nested callback pyramids like we were building the Eiffel Tower out of chewing gum.

Single page apps and dynamic content exploded, and with them, so did the mess, enter the frameworks, riding in like they were here to save us. But here’s the twist: they didn’t invent anything truly new. They gave a fresh name and a shiny wrapper to what was already possible. What did they really bring us? A design pattern.

And what is a design pattern, really? Just a polite way of saying "put your stuff where you’ll remember it when your hair’s a little greyer and someone’s breathing down your neck asking why the dashboard loads in 38 seconds." It’s about making code that’s readable four years later; preferably without needing to book a therapy session before debugging.

And guess what? That pattern? You can absolutely implement it with vanilla JS. Or, dare I say, with jQuery, that mischievous little gem that still knows how to get the job done with elegance, brevity, and zero ceremony.

Sometimes I wonder if devs reach for frameworks just to avoid the responsibility of understanding their own code.

But hey, let them. I’ll be over here, sipping my tea, gliding through custom components I wrote myself, which still haven’t broken in production. Why? Because I know them. Intimately. Like a long-term lover who still gives me butterflies.

Edit: Oh, and one more little sparkle to add. Having a bit of backend or DevOps knowledge? Chef’s kiss. It’s the difference between being a front-end artist and being a full-blown spellcaster. When you understand the flow from the browser all the way to the database and back again, suddenly your jQuery (or vanilla, or whatever you use) stops being "just" scripting and becomes orchestration. Debugging becomes strategy. Deployment becomes elegance. And performance? Darling, it becomes a love letter to your future self.

Know your stack, even just a little. It pays off in ways no framework can promise.

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...OK so I know half of them have now retired, but never mind, it's still a cool milestone, may there be many more! Thank you all, for your posts, comments, votes, pageviews and other contributions that collectively make this subreddit what it is.

Welcome also to /u/rya11111, who joined the mod team a while back, and has been very helpful! And who can be found in /r/dailyprogrammer and various other locations.

I did try and cobble together some celebratory CSS - demo here - but I think it's a bit grim. My goal was to take some glare out of the white, but there's a line, and I think I crossed it. Suggestions?

Indeed, if you have any comments or ideas for us, on any topic, please add them below, or send us a modmail or PM, we're happy to hear, anytime!

Thanks also to jgs & ejm97 for the ASCII. Found here.

Congrats again, and happy jQuerying! :)

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I've been working on a jQuery plugin called Livestamp.js that takes timestamped HTML elements and unobtrusively provides timeago text. It's similar to the jQuery plugin timeago, but it can be used without writing any extra javascript. Also, I think the timestamp needed by Livestamp.js is a little simpler than the one needed by timeago. I've thought about supporting additional timestamp formats, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

Website: http://mattbradley.github.com/livestampjs

GitHub repo: https://github.com/mattbradley/livestampjs

Any thoughts, issues, criticisms, or suggestions would be helpful!