I&#x27;ll just offer another perspective. for me jQuery was a major stumbling block to me learning JavaScript. And without JavaScript, you can&#x27;t write very much jQuery either.<p>I&#x27;m young enough that there&#x27;s a generation of jQuery-loving developers above me, and the whole generation younger than me is enamoured with the newer frameworks. But for me it wasn&#x27;t until I stopped looking at jQuery and focused on proper JavaScript that any of it made sense to me.<p>The thing I find remarkable the more I learn Js is that the &#x27;level&#x27; of the language seems <i>perfect</i> for the problems you&#x27;re working with. jQuery makes things abstract and high-level enough you&#x27;ll never figure it out - and any lower level and JS would be a lot harder to learn. The more I get into it the more perfectly suited to the task it seems to be.