umbrella VS hello-express

If you are mainly using jquery for its DOM manipulation¹ rather than for browser compatibility² or things that didn't exist consistently in older browsers³ then there are much smaller libraries that do that job which may be worth looking into. https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash or https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella to give a couple of examples. Some explicitly support IE11 so you are not dropping as much support for legacy browsers as you might otherwise.

Though if jQuery works for you and isn't a performance issue, then by all means keep with it. It may not be ideal, but good enough and does the job. Let the naysayers spend their time debating whether you should or not, and just get on with making things!

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[1] selection engine, chained selections, chained modifications, …

[2] not the issue it once was, if you can abandon IE and old Android browsers from your supported UAs or can deal with any issues that crop up individually

[3] again, if you can afford to drop support for legacy UAs

Yes, and if you continue long enough you end up with one of the many jQuery alternatives, like mine:

https://umbrellajs.com/

If you're learning React just to get a job, you're doing it wrong, since recruiters are always changing their requirements. They will add `proficient in Svelte` just to annoy you, (after having learning React) and now you're no longer relevant to them.

That's why I say: stick to the baseline of HTML, CSS, & JS. Learn to write vanilla JS for common things, maybe learn UmbrellaJS[0] for syntactic sugar and manipulating the DOM.

Oh and learn some APIs to do back-end stuff too. And for forms, there's loads of projects out there to automate that[1]

[0] https://umbrellajs.com/

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/search?q=forms

const insertAfter = (col, html) => col.forEach(el => el.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', html));

Keep going a bit like that, until you realize you are basically reinventing jQuery. Add a couple of very nice-to-haves, like chaining (instead of nesting in these examples above) and that's exactly what Umbrella JS is, very thin methods to manipulate the DOM and handle events. In fact, compare our "addClass" implementation in this comment to [Umbrella's addClass](https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/src/plugi...), it's almost the same size but hundred times more flexible:

// Add class(es) to the matched nodes

Postmarks runs on Glitch - or, anywhere else you can stand up a Node.js / Express app. Personally I love Glitch, and I've been using it for many years now for hosting demos and trying out different projects - in fact, my main links page runs on Glitch. The Postmarks developer Casey Kolderup works there, and Casey has made it really straightforward to remix directly on Glitch, or import from GitHub there or to another service of your choice - it has very few dependencies.

So kind of like https://glitch.com/ and https://inbrowser.app/ but somehow productized, has a bitcoin donation button, and uses iframes(??). Feels pretty slow too, but that might just be the HN hug of death.

The Glitch team has been doing some gardening of our own over the past few weeks: the latest addition to our new homepage is our new weekly feature, “App of the Week.” As I type this, we’re featuring a classic: Dan Reeves’ Nasa logo generator. Next week: your favorite app? Your latest creation? Send your submissions here and help us shine a spotlight on all the coolest (even in this heat) apps in the universe.

Happy June! Everyone seems to either be wrapping up the school year or finishing up projects at work ahead of trips to the beach – or whatever it is that humans do when it gets this warm out. Our team’s been busy too; in case you missed it, we launched a new Glitch homepage, created new starter apps to celebrate Apple’s expanding support for progressive web apps and open VR/XR, and made huge progress in letting the Glitch community tap into all of Fastly’s features for supercharging your apps – we’ll be sharing more about this very soon!

I’ve seen some people use Glitch for experimental web projects.

https://glitch.com/

I'm making a custom heardle using the 'zayn-heardle' template on https://glitch.com. The search-bar for searching for songs is not working. It doesn't show any options to pick a song.

See you on glitch.com! Jenn, Director of Community 👽

I've implemented the package https://pub.dev/packages/sign_in_with_apple successfully both for iOS and Android devices (my back-end is glitch.com, copied from the package's instructions).