&gt; However, jQuery is largely considered very cumbersome by more experienced devs, owing to being slow in performance and to being a large file include that slows page load times, and a lot of people try to avoid it for that reason.<p>I whole heartedly disagree. Experienced devs consider jQuery a tool and know when to use smaller frameworks like vanillaJS or something heavier such as React&#x2F;Aurelia. Also, in terms of web libraries&#x2F;frameworks, 100kb is not that big.