Personally, I'd stick with the vanilla js and perhaps use jquery as it solves a lot of headaches with different browsers. You can waste a lot of time just lear

Personally, I'd stick with the vanilla js and perhaps use jquery as it solves a lot of headaches with different browsers. You can waste a lot of time just learning frameworks that can be here one year and gone the next and you may only use 20% of what they offer. You will learn more from building apps yourself and with more experience, you will start building your own js library for common tasks. Build libraries, not frameworks :) Get used to building your own framework from your libraries each project as each project is different. You will get good at it as it is like doing a 'kata' every job and your native js skills will become very good, good to the point that when you have to work on a project using a framework you should have enough base experience to work it out. Also, look into Modules, they are great building blocks for library code. cheers.