Here's an alternate POV. jQuery is fading from the spotlight not just because there are better ways of handling the DOM, but because the mindshare and code ecos

Here's an alternate POV. jQuery is fading from the spotlight not just because there are better ways of handling the DOM, but because the mindshare and code ecosystem that grew up around it got completely blindsided by modern module-loading/packaging systems. The same is true of Angular I think but to a much lesser degree.