TIL Bootstrap 5 removing jQuery will reduce about 83kb of loading time

POSTED ON: Sep 25, 2020

Switching from Bootstrap 4 to Bootstrap 5:

On 16th June of 2020, Bootstrap 5-alpha1 has been officially launched dropping jQuery as a dependency and also removing browser support for Internet Explorer 10 and 11. This came as a big surprise to the developers, especially the decision to no longer support Internet Explorer browsers.

Removing jQuery as a dependency comes as a welcoming update for two main reasons:

You will save up to 82.54 KB for the loading time
Many of the features of jQuery can now be done natively with Vanilla Javascript
You can read a tutorial on Bootstrap 5 and how to use it without jQuery.

REFERENCE:
https://themesberg.com/blog/tutorial/bootstrap-5-tutorial
https://themesberg.com/knowledge-center/bootstrap/what-is-bootstrap

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