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

In this era we cannot be predictable about the stability of the any software versions. Few years Before the versions of software and services releases after a year or two year. But at this time the versions of the services are updating rapidly and frequently.

So if you are using any service with your service you have to use Agile Development. By this development method you can easily make changes in the new requirements and change the required methods according to you.

And please don't use depreciated methods because they are not suitable for long-time service versions. And make libraries of the used services of library of your own service function that are using other services so that you can easily change them according to your new version.

For example : like you have a method name update_var(); it is calling a another method of other service like $a = newlib::check_update();. Then by creating libraries you have to change the main library of the function of your and the core library of the involved service