--- title: "#373: Bye jQuery, hi Vue.js, and what's going on with Babel 7.0?" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 373 published_at: "2018-02-16" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/373" --- #373: Bye jQuery, hi Vue.js, and what's going on with Babel 7.0? This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/373) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 373 — February 16, 2018[Replacing jQuery With Vue.js: No Build Step Needed](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/jquery-vue-javascript/)Some developers shy away from build tools for quick projects and they’re not _mandatory_, as we see here. Here’s how to use Vue.js in a similar way to how you might use jQuery now. 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