Exciting news for jQuery.

Last night, I was working on a side project. For the front-end, I'm using React, React-Route, and I'm working on figuring out Fluxible. superagent to wrap XmlHttpRequest. browserify to compile what I serve to the front-end. I don't run a reverse-proxy with a node backend since the API is in PHP, I just served the minified JS files.

Honestly, it's a huge pain. And every module I toss in there seems to limit compatibility with the next one. The barrier of entry to doing things right is HUGE. Also, if you disable JS the site would be useless, 100%.

If I were to go with angular it would be even worse. I honestly may go back to jQuery on this project yet. I don't expect it to be huge, and since most Foundation plugins use jQuery anyway it should work. I honestly loathe how much crap I'm loading for two pages: sign-up / register.

> I honestly loathe how much crap I'm loading for two pages: sign-up / register.

Sorry, but this is entirely your fault. You don't need any of what you mentioned to do this. You can just use jQuery if that works for you. No one except really bad junior devs on here or Reddit will say you are doing things "wrong".

PS: Use fetch instead of superagent.

Fetch support is awful. Rachel McAdams knew the future.