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		staticvar on July 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Build Minesweeper with JavaScript > But when you need to do more than that, you'll realize jQuery is still useful Such as?

purerandomness on July 25, 2019 [–]

See here: https://medium.com/@mattburgess/in-defence-of-jquery-4a8b20f...

In general, jQuery is an amazing wrapper around native JS with a saner API and countless hours of different browser quirk workarounds to make sure that what you try to do works in all modern browsers and IE.

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