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jQuery archive and modern retrospectives: how John Resig's 2006 library shaped a decade of browser development before React and Web Components.

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retrospective · 2026-05-10

jQuery in 2026: What Survives After React, Vue, and the Modern Web

John Resig's 2006 jQuery library shaped a decade of browser development. Twenty years later, what survives in 2026 modern stacks: querySelector, fetch, ES6 modules, and the quiet death of $.