Practical approach to keeping jQuery up to date?

Question

Some of the projects we\'re working on have strong roots in jQuery 1.4.2 or earlier, and somewhere between lacking the performance edge (or syntactic sugar) of the latest re

Answer 1

This is worth looking into: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-migrate/#readme

This plugin can be used to detect and restore APIs or features that have been deprecated in jQuery and removed as of version 1.9. See the warnings page for more information regarding messages the plugin generates. For more information about the changes made in jQuery 1.9, see the upgrade guide and blog post.