Removing jQuery - feedback

I'm considering removing jQuery form the Construct 2 engine completely. It's not strictly necessary, would simplify the code, reduce the dependencies, and jQuery stuff doesn't work in non-browser engines anyway like CocoonJS and directCanvas, so using it there is always broken.

Would this break a lot of plugins? Are any plugin developers using it in specific plugins and if so would you be able to refactor it out?

I'm using jQuery in a plugin I'm developing, mainly to do a dynamic modification of index.html:

jQuery('head').append('[i][text to append]'[/i]);

I doubt if rexrainbow his 100 plugins are made with jQuery

Joannesalfa

Most of my plugins do not use jQuery. I removed them before, or made other plugins to replace them. Some plugins still had jQuery call.

I need to ensure that my plugins could be used at cocoonJS since my team member are using cocoonJS heavy.

PS. the alert system does not notify me that Joannesalfa had marked my name at his post.

Ashley

jQuery had still be used in official plugins/behaviors like 8direction,car,dragndrop,platform ..etc

How do you replace them?

I also think some of Pode 's plugins contain jquery. Perhaps some of septeven too.

YEs, some of my plugin uses JQuery. There's still the possibility for a plugin dev to load it inside his plugin if it's needed, or ask the user of the plugin to copy it inside the exported directory if it's just a "static" link (something like "<script src='./jquery.js'>").

We can also add it as a "dependency : jquery.js" inside the edittime.js

It could be problematic if several plugins specify a jquery dependency... which one do you then export?

jQuery is used in official code in several places but it shouldn't be too much of a problem to remove it.

Ashley

Thanks, I will follow your steps. <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

I only use jQuery to detect mouse/keyboard input. I imagine that would be easy enough to replace, but I would need some assistance in learning how to do that.

Yes mine uses jQuery, specially iScroll which uses it a lot...

Couldn't you have an option to export the game with/without jquery?

Hmm... I think removing jQuery could cause more problems than it solves for the time being, so I think I'll postpone this for the forseeable future. Might come back to this in future though, so it might be worth bearing in mind if you can do something without jQuery it's probably better.

Ashley, why not deprecate jQuery officially then? Maybe it could throw a console message or display a warning in the loading screen when in preview mode?

Fimbul - it's less work to keep supporting it so I don't need to change any of our own code :)