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Discussion on: ¿Is using Jquery a bad practice nowadays?

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Chad Windham

"If I was teaching someone how to create dynamic webpages, I would use jQuery as a learning tool. It's an easy way to wrap your head around difficult topics like DOM manipulation, animation, and AJAX."

Kinda my point else where though. You need to learn about DOM manipulation. You can just use fetch now for learning AJAX stuff (if you need something better supported than fetch you can grab axios, but I would still use fetch for learning purposes), and your animations should not rely on javascript now days. I would never point to a front end frame work until there is a solid understanding of HTML, CSS and JS in place. And that absolutely includes DOM manipulation. JQuery was a savior back in the day, when DOM traversal was implemented differently by each browser, animations relied heavily on javascript, and you had to write xhr requests (though xhr isn't THAT bad once you make yourself do it a few times). But all the things Jquery solved aren't really issues anymore...