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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) AJAX and APIs Stage 4 Challenge

Posted by ac10
ac10
12,799 Points

In pure JavaScript?

Just curious, would it be possible to create this app in pure JavaScript? jQuery is a pretty big library, so if you didn't want to use it for a project, it seems like there should be a way to build this with just JS...

2 Answers

Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

And you're not the first person to wonder that.

Here's a helpful resource:

You Might Not Need jQuery

ac10
ac10
12,799 Points

Thanks, Iain!

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points
Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

85 kB is really not big at all, but yes you can do this without any libraries. jQuery itself is a library written in pure javascript, so if they managed to do it, there is indeed a way ;-) That's not to say it's necessarily hard, but it does take some more effort usually.