_s VS jQuery

I would recommend this https://github.com/Automattic/_s it’s similar but I prefer it because it’s managed my automattic who owns Wordpress.com

I would say underscores. I believe it’s by the Automattic team https://underscores.me

I used PHP, JavaScript, and a little bit of Python. I think themes are pretty easy you should try out _s which is a theme template for WordPress and there are similar things for plugins. I learned from this youtube series which is really good -> Wordpress Plugin Developement.

Underscrores or GeneratePress.

I ended up adopting an ITCSS inspired approach as a result of developing wordpress themes with underscores. You can see the current scss structure for starting a project with underscores here.

If you want to build fully custom websites with Wordpress I would suggest looking in to a starter theme, underscores springs to mind, this is just the bare minimum to get a working theme and you'll be the one that needs to build everything.

My preferred boilerplate starting point was to use the super-bare-bones _s (underscore S) from Automattic.

You could start with Underscores as a starter theme, this is basically a foundation theme that leaves everything unstyled and allows you to quickly get into implementing a design instead of worrying about the theme structure too much.

Cheerio is your ticket to the world of server-side magic, allowing you to manipulate HTML and XML documents with jQuery-like syntax. It’s perfect for web scraping, data extraction, or just making sense of the mess that is web content. With Cheerio, you get to play around with the DOM, use CSS selectors, and basically do all the cool things you'd do in the browser, but server-side.

NPM packages include a wide range of tools such as frameworks like Express or React, libraries like jQuery, and task runners such as Gulp, and Webpack.

Great reference.

To this date, one of the best well-documented code is jQuery: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/main/src/core/init.js

I learned a lot from looking into the code.

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Downloading: jQuery is registered as a package on npm. You can install the latest version of jQuery on your terminal with the npm CLI command:

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The story of jQuery is analagous to this story with Sass. jQuery helped usher in an era of building reliable websites and web applications. It provided a consistent cross-browser API for working with the DOM. It eventually led to part of the API being adopted by ECMAScript. We can thank jQuery for querySelector().

TIL jQuery still has nearly 6 million weekly downloads.