Why Gov.UK Stopped Using jQuery
The head of the UK government’s digital transformation unit recently announced a change to the nation’s government services site gov.uk: they’ve “removed jQuery as a dependency for all frontend apps, meaning 32 KB of minified and compressed JavaScript was removed” for everything from selecting elements to attaching event listeners….

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