I would say the landing page is exactly the case where jQuery is <i>not needed</i> anymore. Yes, it&#x27;s convenient to use, yet for a mostly static page with a few XHR calls, some DOM interactions and whatnot - it&#x27;s a bloat, actually. 12-16 months ago it would be a sabotage in most cases, but once it&#x27;s all OK to forget about IE8 - you really can put the good ol&#x27; DOM-AJAX-animation JS libraries to rest.<p>From personal experience: just few days ago I&#x27;ve made a landing page. Focus was on mobile and performance so no jQuery, modernizr, lo-dash, and so on. We only grabbed some syntatic sugar from microjs.com so we could write <i>$(el).remove()</i> instead of <i>el.parentNode.removeChild(el);</i>, etc.<p>Turned out a nice, little page with all the usual bells and whistles only really needs a 12KB of JavaScript code (uncompressed). We actually missed lo-dash more than jQuery.<p>In age of &quot;modern browsers&#x27;&quot; ubiquity, and Angular&#x2F;React&#x2F;Ember&#x2F;MV* libraries doing the heavier stuff, the support for older IEs is really the last selling point of jQuery. And that goes away soon.<p>P.S. Very handy: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youmightnotneedjquery.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youmightnotneedjquery.com&#x2F;</a>