React is the new jQuery
&gt; React is the new jQuery<p>Anyone who uses &quot;the new jQuery&quot; as some sort of insult (as it seems Sara did in her tweet) probably hasn&#x27;t been a developer for more than a few years or is just trying to sound smarter than they are by bashing an easy target.<p>The reason jQuery got so popular is that it made common tasks so much easier than anything else at the time. Anyone who was doing web development before jQuery knows what a godsend it was at the time. JQuery was a fantastic leap forward for development at the time it was released.<p>JQuery didn&#x27;t become bad, the rest of the development world caught up and made it unnecessary.