Umbrella JS VS script.aculo.us

Yes, and if you continue long enough you end up with one of the many jQuery alternatives, like mine: https://umbrellajs.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

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... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I still use jQuery but https://umbrellajs.com too. And native DOM API as well. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I made a tiny alternative a while back called Umbrella JS: https://umbrellajs.com/ Seeing methods like addClass in "replace-jquery", I'm not fully satisfied. I could make Umbrella JS tiny (1/2 of the alternative listed elsewhere in the thread, Cash, and 10% the size of jQuery) because of heavy method reusal. For instance, in Umbrella JS addClass is just:

    u.prototype.addClass = function () {.

- Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

"script.aculo.us... that's a name I've not heard for quite some time". Source: 10 months ago

Remember Scriptaculous? I can't believe the site is still up. It was the probably the most popular JS library to do fancier interactions. Source: over 1 year ago

We had a few years of Angular with jQuery and before that it was very much jQuery. Jquery was loved because it provided a common and good API across web browsers. Some people use backbone js but that was rare. Before jQuery, the most fancy projects used prototypejs and http://script.aculo.us/ Before these, I was not doing web development so I prefer to not say anything. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Let's not forget about http://prototypejs.org/ & http://script.aculo.us/ for modern Web 2.O. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I'm Austrian so it seemed natural to make a beer website. :) I later went on to create script.aculo.us, the first comprehensive DOM animation framework that quite literally rang the death bells for Flash. Source: over 2 years ago