I completely disagree. Need to write a bit of javascript for a page, or a small app? I'm never gonna go the angular or the react route. I'm just gonna do that in 5 minutes using jQuery.
You misunderstand. I'm definitely not suggesting using Angular or React for a page or small app. Quite the opposite. I'm suggesting using just Javascript, with no libraries.
As other posters have written here, you can easily now do just about everything on "Vanilla JS" as you can using jQuery. In my experience, the possible exception to this are animations which require significant boilerplate. However, most common animations are now extremely trivial to accomplish using CSS.
I haven't used jQuery for new project in 2 years, unless I have to support less than IE9 (and even then, I make sure I really need it first).
> you can easily now do just about everything on "Vanilla JS" as you can using jQuery.
jQuery is vanilla JavaScript. As a full stack JavaScript developer, it pains me that people think that something written in JavaScript isn't vanilla JavaScript. It is.
