jQuery was a major productivity boost when first released but it didn't scale well and encouraged creation of tightly coupled glue code. It's decline being the result of evergreen browsers maintaining good parity where "vanilla JS" is now a feasible option and from it no longer being needed in the premier JS SPA frameworks which scales better and allows for the creation of better componentized and modular code-bases.
In someways we've digressed significantly and made it ridiculously more complicated to build a modern web app in contrast to what jQuery gives you out-of-the-box with a simple script include. Now to create a basic Angular2 App you need to download 32k+ files from npm and become an Angular2 build master just to setup your development environment and configure your package/deploy scripts.
You can still go a long way with just Bootstrap + jQuery - which would still be my goto if I just need to spruce up a web page with some behavior. Although that's happening less and less and find myself reaching for VS.NET/TypeScript/JSPM/React as my choice SPA stack which scales well with a great ecosystem, minimal complexity and maximum utility.
jQuery was a major productivity boost when first released but it didn't scale well and encouraged creation of tightly coupled glue code. It's decline being the result of evergreen browsers maintaining good parity where "vanilla JS" is now a feasible option and from it no longer being needed in the premier JS SPA frameworks which scales better and allows for the creation of better componentized and modular code-bases.
In someways we've digressed significantly and made it ridiculously more complicated to build a modern web app in contrast to what jQuery gives you out-of-the-box with a simple script include. Now to create a basic Angular2 App you need to download 32k+ files from npm and become an Angular2 build master just to setup your development environment and configure your package/deploy scripts.
You can still go a long way with just Bootstrap + jQuery - which would still be my goto if I just need to spruce up a web page with some behavior. Although that's happening less and less and find myself reaching for VS.NET/TypeScript/JSPM/React as my choice SPA stack which scales well with a great ecosystem, minimal complexity and maximum utility.