Create React App vs jQuery

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Create React App vs jQuery: What are the differences?

  1. File Structure: Create React App follows a component-based architecture, where each component is a self-contained unit that manages its own state. On the other hand, jQuery does not enforce any specific file structure or organization, allowing developers to structure their code however they see fit.

  2. Dependency Management: Create React App uses npm or yarn for managing dependencies, making it easier to install, update, and remove packages. In contrast, jQuery relies on directly including the library in the HTML file or loading it through a content delivery network (CDN).

  3. Virtual DOM: Create React App utilizes a virtual DOM to improve rendering performance by efficiently updating only the necessary parts of the actual DOM. jQuery, on the other hand, directly manipulates the DOM, which can lead to performance issues when dealing with complex and dynamic UIs.

  4. State Management: Create React App includes built-in support for managing component state using tools like hooks or the Context API. jQuery doesn't provide a built-in mechanism for state management, which can lead to confusion and messy code when handling data changes.

  5. Data Binding: In Create React App, data binding is achieved through the use of props and state, allowing for seamless synchronization between the UI and the underlying data. jQuery, on the other hand, requires manual binding of data to HTML elements, leading to more verbose code and potential synchronization issues.

  6. Community Support: Create React App has a large and active community of developers contributing to its ecosystem, providing extensive documentation, libraries, and community support. In comparison, jQuery has been around for a longer time and has a vast number of plugins available, but its community is not as vibrant and may lack some modern solutions and best practices.

In Summary, Create React App offers a more structured, modern, and efficient approach to building web applications compared to jQuery, which provides flexibility but lacks the robust tooling and best practices offered by React.

Decisions about Create React App and jQuery
Peter Schmalfeldt
Senior Software Engineer · | 9 upvotes · 62.2K views

I have made an extended effort to drop frameworks completely if they are not actually needed. While I still use JS Frameworks like Vue, Angular and React ( if I have too ), I see far too often devs / teams deciding to build a single page site entirely in a framework, rather than just using HTML, CSS and a little JS.

I personally feel it's important to know when a framework is a good solution, and maybe when it's overkill.

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Malek Boubakri
Web developer at Quicktext · | 0 upvote · 205.7K views

The project is a web gadget previously made using vanilla script and JQuery, It is a part of the "Quicktext" platform and offers an in-app live & customizable messaging widget. We made that remake with React eco-system and Typescript and we're so far happy with results. We gained tons of TS features, React scaling & re-usabilities capabilities and much more!

What do you think?

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kazi shahin
CTO at Blubird Interactive Ltd. · | 3 upvotes · 100.1K views

I've an eCommerce platform building using Laravel, MySQL and jQuery. It's working good and if anyone become interested, I just deploy the entire source cod e in environment / Hosting. This is not a good model of course. Because everyone ask for small or large amount of change and I had to do this. Imagine when there will be 100 separate deploy and I had to manage 100 separate source. So How do I make my system architecture so that I'll have a core / base source code. To make any any change / update on specific deployment, it will be theme / plugin / extension based . Also if I introduce an API layer then I could handle the Web, Mobile App and POS as well ? Is the API should be part of source code or a individual single API and all the deployment will use that API ?

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Manatsawin Hanmongkolchai
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When I started TipMe, I thought about using React frontend. At the end, plain, simple jQuery won.

I had to build this iteration of the site fast and by using jQuery I could keep using Django as a full stack development tool. One important point is Django form (combined with Django Bootstrap3) means that I don't have to reinvent form rendering again, which will be the case with React.

Over time, more interactivity seeped into the site and React components start making its way into the codebase.

I now wish the site is built using React so that I could add more user friendly interfaces easier (no more fuddling with server states) but I would still say jQuery helped me get past those early days.

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Pros of Create React App
Pros of jQuery
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    No config, easy to use
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    Maintained by React core team
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    Cross-browser
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    Dom manipulation
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    Power
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    Open source
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    Plugins
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    Easy
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    Popular
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    Feature-rich
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    Html5
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    Light weight
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    Simple
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    Great community
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    CSS3 Compliant
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    Mobile friendly
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    Fast
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    Intuitive
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    Swiss Army knife for webdev
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    Huge Community
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    Easy to learn
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    Clean code
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    Because of Ajax request :)
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    Powerful
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    Nice
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    Just awesome
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    Used everywhere
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    Improves productivity
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    Javascript
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    Easy Setup
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    Open Source, Simple, Easy Setup
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    It Just Works
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    Industry acceptance
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    Allows great manipulation of HTML and CSS
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    Widely Used
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    I love jQuery

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Cons of Create React App
Cons of jQuery
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    No SSR
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    Large size
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    Sometimes inconsistent API
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    Encourages DOM as primary data source
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    Live events is overly complex feature

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What is Create React App?

Create React apps with no build configuration.

What is jQuery?

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

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