Alpine: The Modern jQuery Replacement You’ve Been Waiting For

Back in the old days, when I was building web sites by hand, in the snow, uphill, both ways, jQuery was my default tool when building any kind of interactivity on a web page. Way before I even considered building apps, jQuery was the workhorse that made cross-browser web development easy, or at least a little less painful. In 2024, it’s still in use on the vast majority of web sites. (I’ve seen various numbers, but all point to at least roughly three fourths of th