Comment on Angular 2 Survey ResultsComments−martin_11yIt's a shame that jQuery was included within "What frameworks other than Angular 1.x do you use regularly today? (choose multiple)". Why not throw lodash/underscore in too?−_greim_11yI can kind of see how jQuery + mainstream jQuery usage patterns would get grandfathered in as a sort of ad hoc, primordial framework.−Nemcue11yBecause they are libraries, not frameworks.−andrewmcwatters11yAnd jQuery is... surprise! A library.−toupeira11yIt does have some framework properties, like the whole plugin mechanism.−dcherman11yThat barely qualifies imo. The plugin mechanism is just prototypical inheritance - you're just adding methods to a prototype, nothing more.
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It's a shame that jQuery was included within "What frameworks other than Angular 1.x do you use regularly today? (choose multiple)". Why not throw lodash/underscore in too?
I can kind of see how jQuery + mainstream jQuery usage patterns would get grandfathered in as a sort of ad hoc, primordial framework.
Because they are libraries, not frameworks.
And jQuery is... surprise! A library.
It does have some framework properties, like the whole plugin mechanism.
That barely qualifies imo. The plugin mechanism is just prototypical inheritance - you're just adding methods to a prototype, nothing more.