jQuery isn't dead, and wasn't a failure. It is still widely used and probably will be for some time to come. There are many different types of web projects! For

jQuery isn't dead, and wasn't a failure. It is still widely used and probably will be for some time to come. There are many different types of web projects! For those that require more than vanilla js, and less than a full blown framework (Angular, etc.), jQuery still has its place.