Remove jQuery from tutorial

[Daniel15]

This may be controversial, but after browsing StackOverflow I believe there's way too many people that load jQuery when they really don't need it. Let's not add to that. I don't think we should be loading jQuery in the tutorial just to do an AJAX request. Let's instead have a dummy object that just returns a static list.

var CommentsService = {
  data: [...hardcoded data here...],
  getAll: function(callback) { callback(this.data); }
  // ...
};

Which could simply be replaced to implement AJAX loading.

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Old post (before I thought of just using static data):
Let's replace it with standard XMLHttpRequest code and say something like "Here's some simple code for doing an AJAX request, alternatively you could use your favourite framework like jQuery, MooTools, YUI, ... instead". Having jQuery loaded in the tutorial may make people think that jQuery is necessary to use React.

[Daniel15]

I was thinking about this more and using a static list would probably be better than AJAX (given the tutorial just AJAX loads a static file). Updated the description to reflect this.

[zpao]

I think that would be fine. I would still put the equivalent jQuery call because that will be the inevitable question.

[jstoja]

After reading pretty much everything related to this issue, I think it would be a good idea to add (for now) a little note in the tutorial, just under the code snippet having the jQuery inclusion.
I think it's the only place it really needs to be.
What do you think ? (So we can finally close this issue)

[chenglou]

Agreed. A beginner tutorial isn't the place to debate jquery vs no jquery. The point is familiarity.

[Daniel15]

For what it's worth, I removed the use of jQuery in the ReactJS.NET version of the tutorial: http://reactjs.net/getting-started/tutorial.html#updating-state

[chenglou]

^ The note about jQuery not being mandatory got merged. I think this is good for now for newcomers. The react users probably already realized they don't actually need jQuery. Closing for now! =)

[Andersos]

It dose not look very good when you are introducing new people to React and the first ting in the tutorial is: "We need to do some Ajax calls, let's just add jQuery".