I'll just offer another perspective. for me jQuery was a major stumbling block to me learning JavaScript. And without JavaScript, you can't write very much jQue

I'll just offer another perspective. for me jQuery was a major stumbling block to me learning JavaScript. And without JavaScript, you can't write very much jQuery either. I'm young enough that there'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't until I stopped looking at jQuery and focused on proper JavaScript that any of it made sense to me. The thing I find remarkable the more I learn Js is that the 'level' of the language seems perfect for the problems you're working with. jQuery makes things abstract and high-level enough you'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.